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COBÆA PENDULIFLORA is a graceful climber, growing rather sparingly in our mountain-forests. It was described and figured by Karsten under the name of Rosenbergia penduliflora (“Flora Columbiæ,” 1. 27, t. ix.), and afterwards in the Bot. Mag., 1. 5757. Karsten's plate is very pretty, but in all the specimens I have seen the linear lobes of the corolla were never so red as he paints them, nor do the stamens ever hang straight downwards parallel to the style, as his figure shows. The plate in the Botanical Magazine has only one defect, the artist having overlooked the hooklets and the ends of the tendrils.
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ERNST, A. On the Fertilisation of Cobæa Penduliflora (Hook. Fil.) . Nature 22, 148–149 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022148b0
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