CO'BiEA SCAN'DENS. 
CLIMBING COBiEA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
COBjEACEA. 
Native of 
Heio;ht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
40 feet. 
Au^. Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1792. 
No. 691. 
Father Cobo, a learned Jesuit, who was many 
years a resident of America, is commemorated in 
the name of the present genus. 
Although the Cobaea scandens is properly a 
greenhouse plant, it is so particularly applicalde 
to the purposes of embellishing walls and trellis- 
work in the open air, during summer, that it ought 
to be better known, and more generally cultivated, 
by such as confine their garden enjoyments to 
hardy plants alone. It is never seen to so great 
advantage as when turned out in May, into rich 
light soil, against a south wall. Here it will run 
most luxuriantly, and may be twisted and turned 
about, up and down in all directions, to fit either 
the caprice of the trainer, or the irregularities of 
the wall or treillage which forms its support. It 
will grow from thirty to forty feet in a season, 
flower abundantly, and bear a mild winter. Seed- 
ling plants should be preferred, which may be 
raised in spring, and kept in a greenhouse or well 
protected frame, during winter, for putting out in 
May. Seeds are seldom perfected in the open 
air, but may be obtained of any seedsman. 
Don’s Syst. Rot. 4, 236. 
