PLATE DCXIII. 



I P O M GE A pendula. 

 Pendulous Ipomcea, 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla infundibuli- 

 fortnis. Stigma capitato-globosum. Cap- 

 sula 2- seu Slocularis. 



SPECIFIC 



Ipom(ea pendula, glabra, foliis quinato-digita- 

 tis : foliolis lanceolatis, mucronulatis, mar- 

 gine integerrimis j extimis indivisis bifidis- 

 ve : pedunculis 1 — 3-floris : calycis foliolis 

 subaequalibus, obtusis, tubo coroUae ter bre- 

 vioribus. Brown Prod. A'ov. Holl. et Ins. 

 Van-Diem. vol. I. p. 4S6. 



Cup five-parted. Blossom funnel-shaped. Stig- 

 ma with a roundish head. Capsule of 2 

 or 3 cells. -. 



CHARACTER. 



Pendulous Ipomcea with smooth five-fingered 

 leaves : the divisions lanced, sharp-pointed, 

 and entire at the edge ; the lowermost being 

 sometimes two-cleft : the pedunc'es one- to 

 three-flowered : leaflets of the cup nearly 

 equal, blunt, three times shorter than the 

 tube of the blossom. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 



1. The empaleraent. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



This very ornamental species of Ipomoea is a native of the north and east coasts of New Holland, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Brown's Prodromus of the plants of that country ab^re quoted. We have seen wild 

 specimens of it gathered by Dr. White near Port Jackson. The species is so decidedly volubilous as not 

 only to twine round other plants that may come in its way, but twists also its own shoots round each 

 other ; and this both in its wild and cultivated state. Towards the root it appears to be woody, and 

 is certainly perennial. The drawing was taken about the middle of July, in the curious collection of 

 the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater, from a plant about five feet high, which was probably the first 

 time the species blossomed in this country. The introducer we have not been able to discover. 



