STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, squamulis corollæ orta, declinata. Antheræ incumbentes. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, declinatus, staminibus longior. Stigmata tria, plana, recurvata. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, trilocularis, trivalvis. SEMINA plurima, valvulis affixa, compressa, imbricata. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, half five-cleft; segments heart-shaped, ending in a point, spreading, persistent. BLOSSOM one-petal, bell-shaped, narrowed towards the base, five-cleft; segments concave, three-lobed, fringed; five woolly scales at the base of the bosom of the tube closing upon each other. _Honey-cup_, a fleshy body, five-angled, ten-furrowed, embracing the seed-bud. CHIVES. Five threads, arising from the scales of the blossom, declined. Tips lying upon the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, declined, longer than the threads. Summits three, flat, turned back. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule oblong, three cells, three valves. SEEDS many, fixed to the valves, flat, tiled. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cobbea foliis conjugatis, cirrhosis; floribus solitariis, pedunculis longissimis; caule scandenti. Cobbea with conjugate leaves terminating in a tendril; flowers solitary, foot-stalks very long; stem climbing. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Blossom cut and spread open, with the Chives in their place. 2. The Empalement, Honey cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits. The specimen, from which our drawing was taken, was communicated by Mrs. Long, from the Collection of the Honourable Charles Long, of Bromley Hill, Kent; where, we believe, the only plant of this fine Genus is at present to be found in Britain; and where it has flowered, for the first time, this year, in the month of September, 1803. It is a native of the East Indies, and must be kept as a hot-house plant; is propagated by cuttings, and thrives in rich earth; will grow, if permitted, to the height of twenty feet or more, and is still in flower this present month of November. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXLIII. BLANDFORDIA CORDATA. _Heart-shape-leaved Blandfordia._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, semiquinquefidum; laciniis concavis, ovatis, obtusis, erectis; persistens. COROLLA. Petala quinque, oblongo-linearia, subtruncata, patentia, calyci inserta. _Nectarium_ urceolatum, membranaceum, germen cingens; limbo quinque-lobo, laciniis clavatis, capitatis. STAMINA. Filamenta nulla. Antheræ quinque, subrotundæ, didymæ; nectarii margini, inter lacinias limbi, affixæ. PISTILLUM. Germen subrotundum. Stylus brevissimus, erectus. Stigma obsoletum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, unilocularis, bivalvis. SEMINA plurima, minuta, glabra. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, half-five-cleft; Segments concave, egg-shaped, blunt, upright; remaining. BLOSSOM. Five petals, oblong-linear, appearing rather cut off at the ends, spreading, inserted into the cup.