FLATE IX 
USTERIA SCANDENS. 
i Climbing Ufteria. 
CLASS XIV. 
ORDER II. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Carrx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 
partitum, perfiftens; laciniis ere@tis, fubu- 
latis. 
Corotra. Monopetala, ringens, tubus ventri- 
cofus, bafi aréta; limbus bilabiatus, labium 
Juperius bifidum, rotundatum, reflexum; la- 
biam inferius trifidum, laciniis rotundatis, 
intermedia minore. 
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Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, fub labio fu- 
periori recondita, quorum duo Jateralia 
longiora, fundo corollz inferta, bafi incraf- 
fata, Janata, apice incurvata. Antherz 
erecte, verfatiles, approximate. 
_Pistrtiom, Germen fub-rotundum. Stylus fili- 
formis, perfiftens; longitudine ftaminum. 
- Stigma obtufum. 
Pericarrium. Capfula fub-rotunda, bilocu- 
laris, calyce longior, obtufa. 
Semina plurima, fub-rotunda, fcabrida. 
SPECIFIC 
Ufteria caulis volubilis; foliis haftatis;. floribus 
folitariis, purpureis; pedunculis tortis, lon- 
giflimis. 
EmpaLeMeNT. Cup one leaf, five divifions, 
permanent; fegments upright, and awl- 
fhaped 
-Biossom. One leaf, gaping, tube fwelled out 
in the middle, and pinched in at the bafe; 
border with two lips, the upper divided 
into two lobes, which are rounded, and 
bent back; the /wer has three divifions, 
the fegments rounded, the middle one the 
{malleft. 
Cuives. Threads four, hid under the upper lip, 
of which the two fide ones are the longeft, 
fixed into the bottom of the bloffom, thick- 
ened at the bafe, woolly, and turned inward 
at the point. Tips upright, flightly fixed 
by the middle, and approaching. 
Pointa. Seed-bud nearly round. Shaft thread- 
fhaped, remaining, the length of the chives. 
Summit blunt. 
SzepD-vesseL. Capfule nearly round, of two 
cells, longer than the cup, blunt ended. 
Seeps many, almoft round, and very rough. 
CHARACTER. 
Ufteria with a climbing ftem; leaves halbert- 
fhaped ; flowers folitary, and purple; fruit- 
ftalks twifted, very long. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Bloffom cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 
2. One Chive, (magnified). 
3. The Pointal, (natural fize), 
4. The Em 
ement, and Seed-veffel nearly ripe, of its natural fize. 
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flowering from May till September, but does not 
= P ed by cuttings, or from feeds, which are ripened by 
er, or earlier; thriving beft in light rich earth. | 
