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CLEMATIS hexasepala. 
Six-petaled Virgin's bower. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE—CLEMATEZ=.  (CRowroors, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 427.) 
CLEMATIS. L. 
Sect. ? TRIQUADRIA; sepalis petalisque 3, staminibus 6 ! 
C. hexasepala, DeCandolle’s Prodromus, vol. 1. p. 5. A. Cunningham in 
Annals of Natural History, vol. 4. p. 260. Journal of the Horticultural 
Society, vol. 1. p. 239. 
C. hexapetala, Forst. Prodr. n. 230. 
Although, in conformity with the authors who have gone 
before us, we leave this plant in Clematis, yet we do so with 
a protest against its being so regarded by systematists: for 
how can a plant with a ternary structure and definite stamens 
be associated with those which have a quaternary structure 
and indefinite stamens? For the present the name TRIQUADRIA, 
expressive of this remarkable peculiarity, may stand as the 
name of a section; but it will surely be taken hereafter as 
that of a genus. 
It is a New Zealand plant, seeds of which were presented 
by J. R. Gowen, Esq., in 1844, to the Horticultural Society, 
in whose Journal the following account is given of it: 
“ This is a little twining plant, with shining nearly smooth 
ternate or biternate leaves, whose petioles twine round any 
small body with which they may come in contact. The leaflets 
are cordate-ovate, coarsely serrated, and often three-lobed. 
The flowers are small, pale green, very sweet-scented, and 
appear in threes or fours from the axils of the leaves. Their 
stalks are long and hairy, and each has a pair of small bracts 
below the middle. The sepals are very uniformly six in 
number, of a narrowly oblong form, and spreading so as to 
form a small green star. Contrary to the usual structure of 
