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CLEMATIS brachiata, 
Brachiate Cape-Virgin's Bower, 
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vol /POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. ut 
‘CLEMATIS... Gal) 0. Gor. pet. 4, rarius 5. Germina ‘supera, 
plurima, receptaculo communi imposita, -unicuique sty/us unicus ; stigma 
simplex, . Capsulé totidem monosperma non'dehiscentes, aristate, arista 
sepé plumosa. Caulis sepe frutescens; sarmentosus aut erectus; folia 
opposita, simplicia aut ternuta aut pinnata ; flores acillares| aut sepiis 
terminales, solitarit aut sepits corymbosi, in quibusdam dioict, in paucis 
instructi calyculo turbinato bifido a petalis paululiim remoto. Jussieu 
gen.’232.."" “gt 
sina sigiot wiboDidrstandentesy wy 2914 fib 
C. brachiata, foliis quinato-pinnatis, raritis ternatis, infernis modd biter- 
natis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis,. subdentatis; pedunculis. 3+5-floris, 
brachiatis ; corolla 4-petala, nutante, acuta. ie iat 
Frutex sarmentosus, celsissime scandens ope summorum foliorum. cir. 
rorum ad instar se contorquentium, sempervirens; brachiato-ramosus. Folia 
brachiato-opposita, LS RE proximé sub paniculd seepé ternata, ins 
Jferiora biternata, glabra, lucida, a supino atro-virentia, semipedalia »v. circa 
foliola jfirmula, patentissima, distantia, 1-2 uncialia, ovata, acuminata, in 
summo dimidio Tectibus inequalibus laxius densiusve serrata, 5-nervia reticua 
lato-venosa, 2 exteriora minora, ‘nunc confluentia cum terminali: petiolus 
communis gracilis, elastico-rigens: partiales bis ter breviores folio. Pedunculi 
ternato- Alaauaiaileuchiath foliosi, villosi, in summis ramis oppositi, axils 
lares, solitarn, strict, robustt, foliis breviores ; pedicelli recurvult, crasst, 
teretes, 1-flori é foliolo simplici, flore breviores, infra medium geniculati et 
stipatt bracteis’ 2 ovato-lancéolatis decussantibus foliolum ad basin positum. 
Flores: primo cernui, indé nutantes erectiores, viridi-flavescentes. ~ Cal. 0: 
Cor. 4-petala, coriacea, tota tomentosa, revoluto-rotata, cegualis,  obsoleté 
striata, . cuits decidua; petala ovato-oblonga, lanceolata, acuta. Stamina 
pariim breviora, lineari-subulata, plano-convexa, dorso et superne inths pilostty 
inferne tntus nuda; anth. lineari-oblonge, adnate, erecta, recuroule.  Pis- 
tilla istis subequalia, congesta et land spissé sericea implexd continentes. 
An unrecorded species, and the only one of the genus 
from the Cape of Good Hope (where it was found growing 
naturally by Mr. Niven) as yet known to have blossomed. ~ 
in our gardens. It has been lately raised from imported: 
seed by Mr. Middlemist, nurseryman at Shepherd’s Bush. 
‘The specific name is borrowed from the Banksian Herba- 
rium, in which we found a sample of the spontaneous plant, 
collected by the late Mr, Masson, 
