by Mr. Sabine in the Horticultural Transactions, where the 
_incarnata 8 of this work is denominated PasstrLora edulis. 
Cerulea is a climbing shrub, extending itself (with sup- 
port) to the height of twenty feet or more: branches dark 
green, cylindrical, smooth, slightly cornered at the upper 
part. Leaves alternate, pretty large, green, smooth, palmate, 
5- sometimes 6- and even 7-lobed, lobes ovally oblong, quite 
entire and bluntish at the top: petiole smooth biglandular. 
Tendrils axillary, simple. Stipules semilunar, rounded at the 
outer edge and entire, setaceously mucronate downwards. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, oneflowered. Flowers at least 
three inches in diameter, subtended by a threeleafletted in- 
yolucre; leaflets oval, concave, entire, pale green. Seg- 
ments of the calyx 5, oblong, mucronate, dark green on the 
outside, white on the inside. Petals white, oblong, of the 
same size as the calycine segments. Crown radiate, not so 
large as the corolla, blue towards the extremities of its rays, 
purplish at the base, white in the middle. Fruit ovate, 
about the size of an apricot or large plum, orange-yellow 
when ripe. 
The shrub is coyered with a succession of bloom from 
July till the autumnal frosts set in. 
The above description is chiefly from the French of the 
excellent Encyclopédie of the Chevalier Lamarck. 
There is a variety in our gardens with the lobes of the 
leaves greatly narrower than those of the present. It has 
been sometimes taken for another species. 
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