LOPHOSPERMUM SCANDENS. 
CLIMBING LOPHOSPERMUM. 
EXOGENZ, oR DICOTYLEDONES. 
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NATURAL onnaale SCROPHULARIACEA. 
COROLLIFLORE, Arti a DYNAMIA. 
OF 3 Eats AXGIOSPERMA & 
DECANDOLLE, vi this bet a 
No, 17. 
GENUS. - Don. x 5-partitus. Contes campanu- 
lata; limbo 5-lobo, subequali. Shes ‘Viloonlall ae dehiscens. 
Semina aera membranaceo-alata. Dow. Transactio of Linnean Society, 
Vol. XV, p. 35 oe 
SPE CIES. 0 sph seme, Scannens. Don, Fo tts cordatis acuminatis P 
ciso-serrati racteatis, Cave herbaceo. Don. 
oukoee OF THE GENUS, Lopuospermum. Caxyx 5-parted. 
Cororta campanulate ; limb 5-lobed, nearly equal. Capsute 2- 
celled, pices ey Seeps imbricated, with a ——S 
wing. : 
Description OF THE Species, LopHOSPERMUM SCANDENS. This 
is an extremely handsome herbaceous climbing plant. BRANCHES | 
cylindrical, copiously clothed with soft viscid jointed hairs. eee” 
alternate, numerous, petiolate, cordate, acuminate, inciso-serrated, 
rough, 5-nerved, from 3 to 4 inches long, and 2to3broad. Pr 
roundish, villose, 2 inches long. Fiowers pendulous. Pep : 
axillary, solitary, one-flowered, round, villose, without bracts, ne 
twice as long as the petioles, turned together with the leaves to ane’ 
side of the stem. Caryx rough, deeply 5-parted : the segments 
ovate, acuminate, entire, or here and there exhibiting a slight tooth, _ nF 
the two exterior broader than the others. Corotta large, a i ¥ 
campanulate, pink inclining to’ purple, twice as long as the 
tubular at the base, dilated at the throat, limb 5-lobed, nearly equal, 
lobes broad, rounded at the top, with imbricated estivation. Stamens 
4, didynamous, fertile, inserted on the lower part of the tube, a little 
shorter than the corolla. Fitamenrs linear, compressed, glandulose 
at the upper part. ANTHERS two-lobed, two-celled, not pointed, naked. 
Ovary globose, two-celled. Stryzz very long, slender, filiform, smooth, 
thicker below. Saiema simple, emarginate. Capsutr spherical, 
crowned by the persistent base of the style, tga nearly two- 
sega, splitting irregularly. § imbricated, ascending, 
