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.