THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS — CLIMBERS 311 
Gourds or gourd-like plants, as, Coccinia Indica; Cucumis of several 
interesting species, as C’. erinaceus, grossularieformis, odoratissimus ; 
dipper or bottle gourd (Lagenaria) ; 
vegetable sponge, dish-cloth gourd, 
rag gourd (Luffa); balsam apple, 
balsam pear (Momordica); snake 
gourd (Trichosanthes) ; bryonopsis; 
Abobra viridiflora. 
All the above except sweet pea are 
quickly cut down by frost. 
b. Twiners 
Beans, Flowering. 
Cypress vine. 
Dolichos Lablab, and others. 
Hop, Japanese. 
Ipomeea Quamoclit (cypress vine) and 
others. 
Moonflower, several species. 
Morning-glory. 
Mina lobata. 
Thunbergia. 265. Sweet pea. 
Mikania scandens.* 
Butterfly pea, Centrosema Virginiana.* 
Scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus (perennial South). 
Velvet or banana bean, Afucuna pruriens var. utilis (for the South). 
Perennial herbaceous climbers. 
(The tops dying down in fall, but the root living over winter and 
sending up a new top.) 
a. Tendril-climbers or root-climbers 
Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolius. 
Clematis of various species, as C’. aromatica, Davidiana, heracleefolia 
(C. tubulosa), are more or less climbing. Most of the clematises 
are shrubs. 
