at each footftalk, palmated, leaf-like. Leaves alternate, pal- 

 mate, fmootb, divided nearly to the bale into five ovate- 

 lanceolate leaflets, the Vwo lowermoft of which are two-lobed; 

 they are terminated with a minute foft mucro, edges quite 

 entire, but frequently minutely undulated, fo as to give the 

 appearance of their being ferrulate. Peduncles the length of 

 the petiole, axillary, 1 — 3 flowered (according to Forskall, 

 when very vigorous, dichotomous, thrice divided). Pedicles 

 brafteated wiih two fmall ovate acute fcales about the middle. 

 Calyx five-leaved: leaflets fhort, ovate, acute, concave, fmooth, 

 very fliining withinfide. Coro/la large, violet purple, tube 

 nearly cylindrical, contracted as far as the calyx : limb 

 fpreading, faucer-fhaped, cut at the margin into five acuminate 

 points, {[lengthened by five pair of ribs prominent underneath, 

 each pair feparate at the bqttom, but converging till they meet 

 at the point of the fegment of the corolla ; the part between 

 thefe ribs is whitifh and fomewhat channelled. Thefe ribs, or 

 rather the flripes occafioned by them, are rudely reprefented 

 in Veslinc's figure, and accurately defcribed by Forskal. 

 Filaments unequal, fubfagittate longer than ftyle, within the 

 tube. Stigma divided into furrowed lobes. 



This is molt probably the plant originally meant by Linn jl us, 

 though perhaps afterwards confounded by Murray, in the 

 Sytft. Vegetab. We have little doubt of its being the fame as 

 defcribed by Vesling and Forskall, and (aid by them to 

 be a very common ornamental plant in the gardens of Egypt, 

 but perhaps not indigenous there. 



The Botanic Garden at Brompton, where our drawing was 

 taken, is indebted for this beautiful plant to Mifs Gartside, 

 of Lancafhire, a lady eminently (killed in delineating botanical 

 fubjects. 



It is eafily increafed by cuttings. Seems to love a light 

 loamy foil. In the ftov'e it flowered through the greateft part 

 of the Summer, but Mr. Salisbury thinks it will do Hill 

 better in the greenhoufe. Native country uncertain. 



A fpecimen of a fimilar plant, apparently differing in nothing 

 but the greater length of the peduncle, is preferved in the 

 Bankfian Herbarium, brought by the late Sir George 

 Staunton' from one of the Cape Verd Iflands. 



The tomentofe axils, mentioned by Vahl, who defcribed 

 from Forskal's dried fpecimens, do not appear in our plant. 

 We have often occafion to regret the alterations made in 

 the fpecific character on the authority of dried fpecimens only. 

 It is not impofijble, but fome mouldinefs about the infertion 

 of the peduncles, frequently occurring in fpecimens gathered 

 in warm climates, may in this inftance have been miftaken 

 for a natural woollinefs. 



