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* TROPAOLUM brachyceras. 
Short-spurred Tropeolum. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BALSAMINACER, $ TROPAXOLEX. 
TROP.EOLUM.—Supra, vol. 9. fol. 718. 
, 
T. brachyceras ; foliis peltatisectis segmentis 6-7 oblongo obovatis integris ses- 
silibus, petalis conformibus, calycis segmentis obtusis, caleare brevissimo ob- 
tusissimo. Hooker et Arnott in Bot. of Beechey's Voyage, p. 14. 
A beautiful little Tropeeolum, forming the prettiest pos- 
sible match for T. tricolor, whose habit it possesses, with a 
substitution of clear, delicate yellow in the petals for the rich 
crimson of that species. Like it the present species is not 
uncommon about Valparaiso, in bushy places in the moun- 
tains. The Chilians call it Flor de Perdiz. 
lt was originally introduced many years since by Mr. 
Cruickshanks, but appears to have been lost again; or at 
least it was never brought into notice till now, when I have 
the opportunity of publishing a figure of it from specimens 
obligingly communicated by the Rev. G. Cumming Rash- 
leigh of Hyde Lodge, near Winchester, in August last. This 
gentleman received the roots, with those of many other plants, 
about three months previously, from a friend at Valparaiso, 
and is at present the only known possessor of the species. 
It is not a little singular that our gardens should still be 
without the other beautiful Tropreolums that grow wild near 
Valparaiso. Weeds enough, including common Lucerne, 
* See folio 1547. 
