PLATE CLXXXV. 



PERGULARIA OD O R ATI SSIM A. 



Sweet Pergularia, or Chinefe Creeper. 



CLASS XX. ORDER VL of Linn. Gen. Plant. l-6i. 

 GYNANDRIA DECJNDRIJ. Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEK. 



CoNTORTA. Nedarium duplex, genitalia in- 

 volvens; fquamulas px^eriorw quinque, cuf 

 pidatx; quinque interiores, membranaceae, 

 lingula Iquamula occultans ftamina duo 

 alterna. 



CoKOLLA hypocrateriformis. 



Contort. Honey-cup double, concealing the 

 parts of tVuftilic.ition; tlie outer fcales are 

 five, and fpear-tliaped; the five inner are 

 Ikinny, each fcale covering two alternate 

 chives. 



Blossom falver-fliaped. 

 See Pergularia minor, PI. CLXXXIV. Vol. Ill, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pergularia foliis cordatis, fenioribus fubtomen- 

 tofis; laciniis corollae margine revolutis, 

 tortis, linearibus, rellesis, viridibus. 



Pergularia with heart-fliaped leaves, the older 

 ones rather downy; the fegments of the 

 bloffom rolled back at the margin, twifted, 

 linear, reflexed, and green. 



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. 

 3. The outer fcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 



6. The inner fcale of the Honey-cup, magnified. 



7. The tvi'o Scales, as they are connefted together at the bafe. 



8. The Pointal, with the Chives; the Shaft, Summit, and Chives, with the 



bodies conneflin^ the Chives, detached and magnified. 



This fpecies of Pergularia is a native of China, from whence it was received in the year l/Sg, by 

 Lady Hume; in whofe colleftion at Wormleybury, Herts, it firft flowered in 179 1. It is cultivated 

 and increafed in the fame manner as the P. minor, and is equally fragrant. We have little doubt that 

 our two fpecies comprife four, of the different authors who have collated from each other; we (hall 

 take the lart, Willdenow. The P. glabra and P. Japonica as our P. minor; and the P. purpurea and 

 tomentofa as our P. odoratiffima. The P. edulis of Thunberg is certainly Cynanchum. 



