REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open.
2. The seed-bud and pointal.
This far-fetched and yet rare species of “the luscious woodbine” is the Kin-gin-qua, or Gold and Silver Flower, of the Japanese, as we learn from Kæmpfer and Thunberg. The same name is also affixed to a Chinese drawing of the plant, a copy of which we have seen in the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. From the same drawing we learn that the flowers come sometimes more in heads, and much more numerous than in our specimen; which may probably be accounted for from the plants being kept here in the green-house. Being an ever-green, like the Minorca and American twining honey-suckles, the species is the more desirable. It was introduced, we are informed, from China about the year 1805, and our drawing was taken in July 1809, in the garden of the Count de Vandes at Bayswater.
PLATE DLXXXIV.
PHLOMIS SAMIA.
Samian Phlomis.
CLASS XIV. ORDER I.
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.