¢ PLABE CCCXIII. 
COBBEA SCANDENS. 
Climbing Cobbea. 
CLASS: ¥. ORDER IL 
PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
any. Perianthium monophyllum, femi- EMPaLementT. Cup one-leaf, half five-cleft; 
tit efidum ;. laciniis cordatis, mucro- fegments heart- Seg ending in a point, 
tis, patentibus, perfiftens. fpreading, perfiften 
Coroita monopetala, campanulata, verfus bafin Bossom one-petal, i fhaped, narrowed to- 
ae arctata, quinquefida; laciniis concavis, tri- wards the bafe, five-cleft; fegments con- 
ae ciliatis; fquamule are lanate, cave, three-lobed, fringed; five woolly 
d bafin finus tubi, conniyentes {cales at the bafe of ars tole of the tube 
clofing upon each o 
Nectarium, corpus saeabahi quinquangu- Honey-cup, a flethy body, five-angled, ten- 
lare; decem sohcesee germen cingens, furrowed, ccabintcl ay the feed-bud. 
Stamina, Filamenta quinque, Sane mulis co- Sevee Five thr eads, arifing from the fcales 
rollz orta, fectteata’ Antherz incumbentes. f the bloffom, declined. Tips lying upon 
“th ‘threads. 
_ Pistirtum. Germenovatum, fulcatum. Stylus Potnrat, Seed-bud egg-ihaped, furrowed. 
; : _ filitormis, declinatus, ee Seca Shaft thread-fhaped, declined, longer than 
it Stigmata tria, plana, recurvata. the threads. Summits three, flat, turne 
Ae 1 eee. Captula blongs, trilocularis, c 
: triv SEED- “VESSEL. Capfale oblong, three cells, three 
SeMina prim, valyulis affixa, compreffa, im- 
of _brica SEEDs tebe fixed to the valves, flat, tiled. 
bec SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Coben foliis conjugatis, cirrhofis; pee i 
ulis longifli 
| oo = conjugate leaves wee in a 
rus, pedunc ongiilimis; caule | 
Seat 
flowers folitary, foot-ftalks very 
Mi Ps climbing. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
ee 1. A Bloffom cut and fpread open, with the Chives in their place. . 
Lhe 2. The Empalement, Honey-cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits. : 
1 ee from which our drawing was taken, was et Se by Mrs. oni, from | the Col- 
~ lection of the Honourable Charles Long, of Bromley Hill, Kent; where, we believe, the only plant ; 
_ this fine ee is at prefent to be found in Britain; and where it has foweted, for the firft time, this” ; 
= , in. of September, 1803. It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and “fnaft be kept as a gue 
plant; is propagated by cuttings, and thrives in rich earth; will grow, if permitted, to 
snty feet or more, and is fill i in flower this prefent month of November. 
