ever, we have never as yet feen it bear more than one to 

 each branch. The fegments of the calyx are very long, fpread- 

 ing, linear-lanceolate. Corolla large, fhewy, the two fuperior 

 petals ereft, obovatc, cream coloured, beautifully ftreaked 

 from the centre with red veins, and more than double the fize 

 of the three lower paler veinlefs petals. Fertile ftamens 

 feven, afcendent, with purple anthers. Stigmas five, rotate, 

 incurved. 



When a plant has obtained an eftablifhed name, we hold 

 it better to retain this than to change it even for a better ; but 

 this fpecies never having been, to our knowledge, defcribed 

 by any author of authority, we feel ourfelves at liberty to 

 adopt the name of quinatum, which was with great propriety 

 propofed by Mr. Gawler, from its leaves being divided into 

 five fegments or leaflets, much in the fame manner as thofe of 

 ternatum are divided into three ; the nurferyman's name pra- 

 morfuw, which gives a falfe idea, appearing to us totally in- 

 admiflible. 



It is eafily propagated by cuttings, but the tender branches 

 feem very apt to perifh. 



Was firft railed from feeds procured from the Cape by 

 Mr. Quarrell, at the nurfery of Mr. Colville, King's- 

 Road, Chelfea, where it has been plentifully increafed. 



Our figure was taken from a fpecimen which flowered at 

 Edward Woodford's, Efq. the latter-end of May 1801. 



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