JACQUEMONTIA PENTAN’THA, 
™ FIVE-FLOWERED JACQUEMONTIA. 
EXOGEN®, oR DICOTYLEDONES. 
Natural division 
to which 
this plant belongs. 
COROLLIFLORE, ee prvsciemes eset 
pucawporee, i = Ve Plant Soh >: 
No. 197. 
GENUS. Jacevemontia. Cyorsy. Caryx quinquesepalus. Corozt 
campanulata, limbo quinqueplicato. Szramina quinque, basi corolla inmates 
inclusa, filamentis basi dilatatis.. Ovarrum biloculare, loculis biovulatis ; sep- 
tula inter ovula collateralia nulla. Sryxus si ries Stigmata duo, ovato-com- 
planata. Capsuta bilocularis. Hers aut suffratices Americane, suberecte 
vel volubiles, foliis cake pedunculis axillasi bik mninttifioris spe paniculatis, 
floribus sepissime cerulei 
IES. Heiawoisi PENTANTHA; CAULE glabriusculo, foliis cor- 
dato-acuminatis nunc glabris nunc pubeseentibus — ORIPREGEE, - pedunca- 
lis folium s#pius superantibus multiflori 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Sicadewbaits: CaLyx divided into 
five sepals. Corowa bell-shaped, the limb with five folds. Sta- 
MENS five, inserted in the base of the corolla, and shorter than it, the 
filaments dilated at the base. Ovary two-celled, each cell witht wo 
ovules, without any partition between them. StTyLe simple. Stiemas 
two, ovate-flattened. CapsuLe two-celled. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, J PENTANTHA. STEM 
shrubby at the base, twining, growing to the height of six feet or more. 
BRANCHES cylindrical, smooth, or more or less covered when young 
with short appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, varying in shape from 
TANDRIA, 
MONOGYNIA, 
OF LINNEUS. 
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or less heart-shaped at the base, from one and a half to two inches 
long, nearly smooth or more or less covered with short appressed hairs, 
borne on a footstalk, about half an inch in length. PrpuNcLEs axil- 
lary, varying very much in length, being sometimes shorter than the 
leaves, sometimes twice or thrice as long, usually more or less hairy 
towards the top. FLowers several on each peduncle, sometimes three 
to five with the pedicels so ai as to form a sort of umbel, sometimes 
ten or twelve or even more, arranged in an irregular lea‘y raceme. 
Bracts leaf-like, = coe pint, the upper ones much smaller 
and nearly linear. PEDICEL m two to three lines to nearly an 
inch long. SEPALS wild faiselade: leaf-like, pointed, the two outer 
ones larger and broader, the third of the same length but narrower, 
the two inner ones ooniahitty smaller. Corotta of a rich blue, 
an inch and a quarter in diameter, sharply five-angled, the folds of a 
