THE FLORIST 



AM) HOBTICULTUBAL JOURNAL. 



Vol. II.] Philadelphia, April, 1853. [No. 4. 



PHARBITIS LIMBATA. 



ETYM. 3>ae : 3n, Colour, in allusion to the brilliant colours of the flower. 

 Convolvulaceae — Convolvuleae. Chois. Pentandria-Monogynia. 



CHARACT. GENER. — " Calyx 5 sepalus. Corolla campanulata ant campan- 

 ulato-infundibuliformis Stylus 1; stigma capitato-granulatum. Ovarium 3 rari- 

 us 4-loculare, loculis 2-speimis." 



11 Herbce volubiles elongate speciosa?, perplurimae ornamenti gratia in hortis 

 cultse, pleraeque americanse, retrorsum pilosse." Chois. 



Pharbitis, Choisy. Conv. or. p. 56 et in DC. prod. IX. p. 341. 



Convolvuli et Ipomece sp. Auct. 



Convolvuloides, Moench. 



Ornithosperma, Rafin. 



CHARACT. SPECIF. — u P. annua, caule retrorsum piloso, foliis cordatis in- 

 tegris angulatis, trilobis-que pilosis-que lobis basi dilatatis acuminatis, pedunculis 

 solitariis unifloris petiolis duplo brevioribus, sepalis basi hispidis apice pilosis linear- 

 ibus acutis Jongissimis." Lindl. 



Pharbkis limbata, Li^dl. in Jour, of the Hort. Soc. V. p. 33. A. Henfkey, in 

 Garden. Hag. of Bot. p. 217 cum. icon. 



" Nothing is more common in gardens than the ci-devant Convol- 

 vulus purpureus, now become the principal type of the new genus 

 Pharlitis. This plant, of tropical origin, but whose annual duration 

 adapts it to the out-of-door cultivation in our temperate regions, 

 forms the commonest ornament of trellises. Why not expect the 

 same usage for the Ph. limbata ? an annual species like the first, 

 and which will take precedence of it, as well in size as in the colois 

 of its flowers. It is now two years (Oct. 1849) since the new Phai- 

 bitis was communicated to the Horticultural Society of Chiswick, 1 y 

 its introducers, Messrs. Rollinson of Tooting, to whom their collec- 

 tor, Mr. J. Henshall, had sent the seeds from Java. It obtained, 

 and deservedly, an honorable mention, and was described as a new 

 species by the learned Dr. Lindley, who distinguishes it from tie 

 PJwrbit is Nil on account of the greater length of its sepals, of tie 



more marked hispidity of these organs, and of the comparath e 

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