312 Po lemon iacece Cobcca. 



the capsule several-seeded ; seeds large, winged. There are 

 three species described, from Mexico and Guayaquil. This 

 genus was named after Cobo, a Spanish botanist. 



1. G. scdndens (fig. 175). This is the species commonly 

 seen in gardens, having large purplish flowers. For out-door 

 culture it is usually treated as an annual, and deserves to be 

 more extensively employed for covering balconies and training 

 around windows, on account of its rapid growth and pleasing 

 foliage. It is a native of Mexico. There is a beautiful variety 

 with variegated foliage. 



G. stipularis from Mexico and C. macrostema from Guaya- 

 quil have yellowish green flowers, the former being remarkable 

 for its large stipules, and the latter for its long stamens, which 

 exceed the corolla by one half. 



Cantua is a genus of handsome flowering shrubs from the 

 mountains of Peru and Columbia. Leaves small, entire or 

 pinnatifid, and alternate. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens 

 more or less exserted. G. buxifolia and G. blcolor have 

 splendid large orange and red pendulous flowers from the 

 upper part of the branches ; and G. pyrifblia has erect white 

 and yellow flowers in terminal corymbs. These shrubs belong 

 more properly to the greenhouse, though they will succeed in 

 the open air near the sea in the south-western counties of 

 England. 



ORDER LXXIIL HYDROPHYLLACE^L 



(Including Hydroleacece.) 



Shrubs or herbs, often clothed with hispid hairs. Leaves 

 lobed, alternate, or the lower ones opposite. Flowers in gyrate 

 or unilateral racemes or spikes, rarely solitary and axillary. 

 Calyx inferior, deeply 5-lobed, sometimes with appendages in 

 the sinuses. Corolla regular, 5-lobed, campanulate, rotate or 

 funnel-shaped. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla 

 and alternating with its lobes. Fruit a 1- or incompletely 2- 

 celled 2-valved capsule ; seeds few or many, attached to parietal 

 placentas which sometimes meet in the centre. A small order 

 with about sixteen genera and seventy-five species, chiefly 

 American. The species of Hydrophyllum itself are almost 

 unknown in gardens. They are North American herbaceous 

 plants with large pinnately or palmately lobed leaves and 



