ra 
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COLUMNEA scandens. 
Chimhing Columnea. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMTA, 
Nat. ord. GESNERIER. Rich. in ann. mus. 5, 428. 
COLUMNEA, L. Calyx 5-partitus villosus. Corolla multo longior, 
tubuloso-incurva, extus villosa, basi gibba, limbo 2-labiata, superits for- 
nicata integra longior inferits brevior 3-loba. Stamina 4, didynama, antheris 
connexis. Stylus 1. Stigma bifidum. Capsula globosa mollis 2-locularis 
polysperma dissepimento carnoso seminifero. Herba repens, aut scandens, 
oppositifolia; flores axillares solitarit. Juss. gen. 121. 
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C. scandens, foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis subvillosis, laciniis calycis in- 
tegris corollisque pubescentibus, labio superiore indiviso. Swartz obs. 
249. 
C. scandens. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 396. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. Pers. syn. 2. 164. 
Bot. mag. 1614. Link hort. ber. 2. 145. 
C. rotundifolia. Parad. lond. 29. 
C. scandens pheenico flore, fructue albo. Plum. ic. 89. f. 1. 
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Our drawing of this plant was made from the collection 
of the Comte de Vandes at Bayswater. We had no oppor- 
tunityof describing the plant. : 
It would seem that it is subject to material variations in 
the form of its leaves; and that they are occasionally quite 
entire, or as frequently more or less toothed: whence Mr. 
Salisbury was induced to’ consider his C. rotundifolia a 
distinct species, an opinion which he afterwards retracted. 
Swartz describes his plant as having “ folia integerrima,” 
perfectly entire leaves, which was certainly not the fact 
with our plant; and Professor Link speaks of the plant cul- 
tivated in the Berlin garden, as having “ folia integerrima” 
also. . 
The genus Columnea was referred doubtfully to his 
Scrophularine, by M. de Jussieu; but he afterwards, in a 
learned paper in the Annales du Muséum, having discovered 
that it had not the central placenta and bilocular ovarium of 
that order, proposed to place it in a new order called Gesne- 
rie, and most nearly related to Campanulacev; but differing 
from that order in having a capsule of one cell, two parie- 
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