PLATE LXIII. 



USTERIA SCANDENS. 



Climbing UJleria. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 

 partitum, perfiftens; laciniis eredlis, fubu- 

 Iatis. 

 Corolla. Monopetala, ringens, tubus ventri- 

 cofus, ban ar6ta; limbus bilabiatus, labium 

 fuperius bifidum, rotundatum, reflexum; la- 

 bium inferius trifidum, laciniis rotundatis, 

 intermedia minore. 



Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, tub labio fu- 

 periori recondita, quorum duo lateralia 

 longiora, fundo corollae inferta, ban incraf- 

 fata, lanata, apice incurvata. Antherae 

 ereftae, verfatiles, approximates. 



Fistillum. Germen fub-rotundum. Stylus fill — 

 formis, perfiftens; longitudine ftaminum. 

 Stigma obtufum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula fub-rotunda, biloou- 

 laris, calyce longior, obtufa. 



Semina plurima, fub-rotunda, fcabrida. 



SPECIFIC 



Ufteria caulis volubilis; foliis haftatis; floribus 

 folitariis, purpureis; pedunculis tortis, lon- 

 gilfimis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, five divifions, 

 permanent; fegments upright, and awl- 

 fhaped. 



Blossom. 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 loiver has three divifions, 

 the fegments rounded, the middle one the 

 fmalleft. 



Chives. Threads four, hid under the upper lip, 

 of which the two fide ones are the longeft, 

 fixed into the bottom of the blofibm, thick- 

 ened at the bafe, woolly, and turned inward 

 at the point. Tips upright, (lightly fixed 

 by the middle, and approaching. 



Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round. Shaft thread- 

 fliaped, remaining, the length of the chives. 

 Summit blunt. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly round, of two 

 cells, longer than the cup, blunt ended. 



Seeds many, almoft round, and very rough. 



CHARACTER. 



Ufteria with a climbing ftem; leaves halbert- 

 fhaped; flowers folitary, and purple; fruit- 

 ftalks twifted, very long. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Bloflbm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 



2. One Chive, (magnified). 



3. The Pointal, (natural fize). 



4. The Empalement, and Seed-vefTel nearly ripe, of its natural fize. 



This is another of thofe plants railed in the year 1~Q7 by the Marchionefs of Bute, at her charming 

 little villa, Brompton, from feeds, fent to her ladyfhip from Spain by Dr. Ortega. It is a native of 

 Mexico, North America, and will live through our winters with the protection of a greenhoufe, to 

 which it forms a beautiful ornament as a creeper; flowering from May till September, but does not 

 appear to be a long-lived plant; is eafily propagated by cuttings, or from feeds, which are ripened by 

 November, or earlier; thriving beft in light rich earth. 



