1755 



*RHODOCHITON volubile. 



Twining Red-Cloak. 



DIDYNAMIA AKGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophularine/E, Juss. § Antirrhine^ (Introduction to the 

 Natural System of Botany, p. 273.) 



RHO DO CHITON Zuccarini. Calyx membranacens, coloratus, cam- 

 panulatus, 5-fidiis. Corolla : tubus anguloso-clavatus, interne pilis sim- 

 pllcibus reflexis, basi ubique, faucem versus 5-fariam vestitus ; llmbus 5-par- 

 titus, segmenta subsequalia erecta. Stamina didynama, rudimento quinti, crecta, 

 apicibiis simpbcibiis. Stylus sub stigmate rectus Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3367. 

 (Capsula vestita, pergamenea, bilocularis, polysperma, irregularitcr debiscens. 

 Semina alata, radiatim striata ; ex Zuccarini.) 



Rhodochiton volubile ; Zuccarini in litt. 1829, Otto et Dietr. in verhandl. ver. 

 gart. Preuss. 10. 152. t. 1. Graham I. c. 



Lopbospermum atrosanguineum. Zuccarini Plant, nov. et min. cocjn.fasc. 1. 

 in Abhandl. MatJuPhys. CI. Monac. vol. \.p. 306. t. 13. 



Lopbospermum Rbodocbiton. D. Don in Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 250. 



A beautiful little climbing' herbaceous plant, which was introduced 

 late in 1833, by Mr. Low of Clapton, from the Berlin Garden. It 

 is not very usual for us to be behindhand with our contemporaries 

 in the publication of new plants, which are of much Horticultural 

 interest ; but on the present occasion we find ourselves forestalled in 

 every direction. We console ourselves with the reflection that we 

 are on that very account enabled to give a more complete history of 

 the plant than would have l;een possible at an earlier period. 



It was originally raised in the Botanic Garden at Munich from 

 seeds collected in Mexico by Count Karwinski, and in the year 1829 

 was distributed to other gardens under the name of Rhodochiton, 

 volubile, an appellation which had been given it by Professor Zuc- 

 carini. 



An account of it was soon after published in the Transactions of 

 the Prussian Horticultural Society, by Messrs. Otto and Dietrich, 

 with a tolerable figure, and the following account of the manner in 

 which it had been treated in the Berlin Garden. 



* From po^oQ red, and ^ltwv a cloak, in allusion to the colour of its calyx. 



