﻿PLATE CCCCXCIX. 

 IP0J4LEA COCCINEA. 



Scarlet Ipomcea. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives, One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato- |j Blossom funnel-shaped. Summit headed, of a 



globosum. Capsula 3-locularis. globular form. Capsule of 3 loculaments, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Jtomtea. foliis hederinis : pedunculis multi- II Ipomjea with ivy-shaped leaves : footstalks with 



fioris: corollis saturate coccineis: caule many flowers : blossoms of a deep scarlet : 



purpureo, torto et involuto. || gtem purple, twisted, and twining. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



Of this species of Ipomaea there are two good uncoloured figures : one in Commelins Rarioram, 

 tab. 21, under the title of Quamoclit Americana j the other in the Americana of Plumier, 89, tab. 103, 

 under the appellation of Convolvulus coccineus; but not to be confounded with the Ipomaea coccinea 

 ! I. luteola of Jacqu 



(erroneously so called) of the Botanical Magazine, 



very difierent plant : although Willdenow in his Species Plantamm ~has~made7m~erV variety of i 

 observing that it difters in no other particular except in colour. But comparison, either with the living 

 plants or the figures above alluded to, will prove them to be distinct in their foliage as well as the 

 ™T"«f ? E hei wT rS ' r NeUher ° f them is wel1 discriminated by its specific title; as the I. luteola * 

 - - c i yellow colour, and the coccinea is of too deep a red to be with accuracy 

 > equivocal to be very characteristic, 

 gardener at Fontbill, we received this specimen, whose luxuriant 

 faT 1Z Ta vTu ma} 7° babl * have «**™ed the abbreviation in the filaments, which are gene- 

 «Uy extended a hide beyond the mouth of the flower, instead of being confined to the base of the 

 tube, as our figure represents j but in which we follow nature : , ... unprecedented 



Z~- w,!T' th ! lhreads dlor . tened or lensthened b ^ cul « •-- is so very 



[>rrvnt in*tdua\ u ;-, u ell dt serving notice. 



