Volume 10 — PLATE DCXIII. IPOMŒA pendula. Pendulous Ipomœa.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-globosum. Capsula 2-seu 3-locularis.

Cup five-parted. Blossom funnel-shaped. Stigma with a roundish head. Capsule of 2 or 3 cells.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ipomœa pendula, glabra, foliis quinato-digitatis: foliolis lanceolatis, mucronulatis, margine integerrimis; extimis indivisis bifidisve: pedunculis 1-3-floris: calycis foliolis subæqualibus, obtusis, tubo corollæ ter brevioribus. Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. et Ins. Van-Diem, vol. 1. p. 486.

Pendulous Ipomœa with smooth five-fingered leaves: the divisions lanced, sharp-pointed, and entire at the edge; the lowermost being sometimes two-cleft: the peduncles one-to three-flowered: leaflets of the cup nearly equal, blunt, three times shorter than the tube of the blossom.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This very ornamental species of Ipomœa is a native of the north and east coasts of New Holland, according to Mr. Brown’s Prodromus of the plants of that country above 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.