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* TROPAÉOLUM tricolor. 
Three-coloured Tropeolum. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. Ord. BALSAMINACEZ, $ TROPXOLEZ. 
TROPZEOLUM. Supra, vol. 9. fol. 718. 
T. tricolor; scandens, gracile, foliis peltatis 5-6-partitis: laciniis obovatis ob- 
longisve obtusis, floribus solitariis pedicellis multò brevioribus, calycibus 
turbinatis coloratis petalis obovatis integerrimis sequalibus calcare gracili 
attenuato brevioribus. 
T. tricolorum. Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t.270. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3169. 
Like the peat little 7. brachyceras, figured in the last 
number of the Botanical Register, this is a native of bushy 
places on the hills near Valparaiso, whence it has been for 
some years introduced to our gardens; so that it is now as 
common as the former is rare. 
For some time after its arrival it was a puny sickly plant, 
shewing but little sign of the extraordinary beauty that 
every one now knows is its attribute; but the skill of our 
excellent English gardeners has so completely overcome any 
difficulties in its management, that nothing is now more 
common than to see large pieces of treillage covered with 
hundreds of its gay, scarlet, and purple flowers. 
The most ornamental mode of displaying its graceful 
mode of growth, is by allowing it to climb over wires fixed 
to the pot, and bent into elegant forms, especially if the 
wires are made to represent the skeleton of some solid figure, 
and not kept upon the same plane. 
The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lowe 
and Co. of Clapton, some years since. 
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* See folio 1547. 
