Tricolor is much cultivated in the gardens of Peru; and 
is described as follows, in the Flora Peruviana. 
A tree from thirty to forty feet high, full of milklike 
juice: stem upright, round, ash-coloured on the outside; 
branches forming a large round head, forked, crooked, brittle, 
fall of pith, thick, scarred where the foliage has fallen off. 
Leaves scattered, oblong, pointed at both ends, entire, flat 
at the edges, reticulately veined, with larger horizontal red 
side-veins which are scarcely imbowed: petioles furnished 
with two small connected g/ands on the inside of their base. 
Peduncles fluted, red, pubescent, umbellately cymose, 
manyflowered; pedicles in pairs, oneflowered, furnished at 
the base with an ovate concave caducous bractelet. Calyx 
reddish, 5-notched, furred. Corolla very fragrant, more 
than an inch in diameter: tube straight, red: faux saffron- 
coloured: limb spreading, white and rose-red within, seg- 
ments on the outside white and red by halves. Follicles 
(indehiscent seedvessels) a span long, brown: seeds pale 
brown. 4 
We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant in a fresh 
state. = 
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We received by the civility of Sir Abraham Hume a very fragrant 
PLUMERIA with yellow flowers, produced in the collection at Wormleybury; 
but the corollas had closed, and could not be brought to expand again so 
as to serve the purpose of our draughtsman. 
