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COB^EA stipularis. 



Changeable Cobcea. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Polemoniace^e. 



COBJEA, Cav. Calyx foliaceus, campanulatus, quinquangulatus, ad 

 suturas quinquealatus. Corolla bypogyna, campanulata, limbi quinquelobi 

 lobis late rotundatis, aequalibus. Stamina 5, hno corolloa tubo inserta, exserta, 

 sequalia ; filamenta declinata, demurn spiratim torta ; anthercp, oblongae, in- 

 cumbentes. Discus hypogynus carnosus, quinquangularis, quinquefoveolatus. 

 Ovarium tri-v. rarius quinqueloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali 

 plurima, biseriata, ampbitropa. Stylus terminalis, simplex ; stigma tri- 

 quinquefidum. Capsula pyriformis, subcarnosa, tri-quinquelocularis, locu- 

 licido tri-quinquevalvis, valvis columnani centraleni placentiferam, tri-penta- 

 gonam nudantibus . Semina in loculis pauca^ biseriata, imbricatim adscendentia, 

 suborbiculata, compressa, testa spongiosa, undique in alam membranaceam 

 angustam producta, umbibico propre basim ventrali, lineari. Embryo intra 

 albumen parcum, carnosum rectus; cotyledonibus late cordatis, obtusis, planis ; 



radicula brevissima, infera. Frutex mexicanus, scandens ; foliis alternis, 



sessilibus, jiarijnnnatis, apice in cirrhum desinentibus, pedunculis axillaribus 

 unifloris, medio bibracteolatis, floribus magnis speciosis Endlicb. gen. no. 

 3825. 



C. stipularis; foliorum segmentis trijugis jugorum superiorum anguste ova- 

 tis acuminatis basi obliquis, jugi infirm stipulasformibus cauli approxi- 

 matis reniformibus deorsum acuminatis, sepalis lanceolato-cordatis acu- 

 tissimis, staminibus corollam aequantibus. Bentham PL Hartweg. p. 

 45 no. 344*. 



A very handsome herbaceous plant, introduced from 

 Mexico by the Horticultural Society. Mr. Hartweg found 

 it near San Cornelio. It is a perennial, like the old Cobaea 

 scandens, or rather a half-shrubby plant, but it may be re- 

 garded as an annual so far as English gardens are concerned. 

 The best way to manage it is to raise it annually from seeds 

 sown on a hot bed in March. 



It rapidly scrambles on any thing near it, and produces 



* So called by Cavanilles in compliment to a Spanish Jesuit, named 

 Cobo, who wrote on Natural History about the middle of the 1 7th century. 



