PLATE CLXXXv. 
PER GULARIA- ODORATISSIMA. 
Sweet Pergularia, or Chinefe Creeper. 
CLASS: 3X. ORDER VI. of Linn. Gen. Plant. 1764, 
GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Conrorta. Neétarium duplex, genitalia in- Conrort. Honey-cup double, concealing the 
volvens; fquamulz exteriores quinque, cut- parts of fruétification; the outer fcales are 
_ pidatee; quinque interiores, membranacez, five, and fpear-fhaped; the five inner are 
fingula fquamula occultans ftamina duo fkinny, each fcale covering two alternate 
alterna. chives. 
Corotia hypocrateriformis, Biossom falver-fhaped. 
’ See Percurarta minor, Pl. CLXXXIV. Vol. IIL 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pergularia foliis cordatis, fenioribus fubtomen- Pergularia with heart-fhaped leaves, the older 
: tofis; laciniis corolla margine revolutis, ones rather downy; the fegments of the 
tortis, linearibus, reflexis, viridibus. bloffom rolled back at the margin, twifted, 
linear, reflexed, and green. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom. 
3. The fame, cut open. 
4. The parts of fructification, as they appear when covered by the honey-cups, 
magnified. 
5. The outer fale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 
6. The inner feale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 
7. The two Scales, as they are conneéted together at the bafe. 
8. The Pointal, with the Chives; the Shaft, Summit, and Chives, with the- 
bodies conneéting the Chives, detached and magnified. 
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Tus fpecies of Pergularia is a native of China, from whence it was received in the year 1789, by 
_ Lady Hume; in whofe colleétion at Wormleybury, Herts, it firft flowered in 1791. It is cultivated 
and increafed in the fame manner as the P. minor, and is equally fragrant. We have little doubt that 
our two [pecies comprife four, of the different authors who have collated from each other; we fhall 
take the laft, Willdenow. The P. glabra and P. Japonica as our P. minor; and the P. purpurea and 
tomentofa as our P, odoratiflima. The P. edulis of Thunberg is certainly Cynanchum. 
