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* TROCHETIA grandiflora. 
Large-flowered. Trochetia. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. BvrrNERIACEX. 
TROCHETIA, D. C. Involucellum nullum. Calyx quinquepartitus, 
foliolis lanceolatis, «estivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovato- 
subrotunda, sestivatione convolutiva, decidua. Stamina 15-30, hypogyna, 
basi in urceolum connata, quinque v. septem sterilia, ligulaeformia, integra v. 
irregulariter bifida, cum duobus v. tribus fertilibus brevissimis alternantia ; 
filamenta subnulla; anthere introrse, biloculares, erectee, loculis longitudi- 
naliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, quinqueloculare. Ovula in locu- 
lorum angulo centrali plura, biseriatim adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus ter- 
minalis, filiformis; stigma obtusé quinquelobum. Capsula quinquelocularis, 
loculicidé quinquevalvis, valvis medio septa margine seminifera gerentibus. 
Semina plurima, subrotunda, aptera. Embryo . . .. Arbusculse borbo- 
nice et madagascarienses, ferrugineo-lepidote ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, 
ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, penninerviis, integerrimis, pedunculis 
axillaribus unitrifloris. Endlicher genera, no. 5351. 
T. grandiflora; foliis ovalibus acutis subdentatis, pedunculis 3-4-floris, petalis 
calyce longioribus. 
This noble plant was introduced by His Grace the Duke 
of Northumberland from the Mauritius, and flowered at Syon 
in December last. Its name is probably one of M. Bojer's, 
but it has not yet found its way into any of the modern com- 
pilations of species. The plant at Syon is a seedling, about 
six feet high ; when struck from cuttings it wil probably 
become bushy, in which case it will be very beautiful, as it 
appears to be a free flowerer. 
The blossoms are snow-white, with a yellow blotch at the 
base of each petal, and are nearly three inches in diameter. 
Their pendulous position, which occurs in all the known 
* So named by DeCandolle in honour of M. Dutrochet, the celebrated 
French physiologist. 
