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TrorexoLtum Morirzianum. Mr. Moritz’ 
INDIAN CREssS. 
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Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—TRopeo.ez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5, in- 
equalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa 
basi libera. Carpella 3, suberosa, reniformia, indehiscen- 
tia, hinc sulcata, rotundata. Semina magna, exalbuminosa, 
loculum secum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia. Hm- 
bryo magnus, cotyledonibus 2 rectis crassis, junioribus dis- 
tinctis, dein arcte conferruminatis et etiam cum spermo- 
dernate adherentibus, ima basi subdistinctis, radicula intra 
cotyledonum processus latente, tubercula 4 mox radicellas 
proferentia gerente. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Trorxotum Moritzianum ; estipulata, foliis peltatis subor- 
biculatis leviter 7—9 lobatis basi transversim trunca- 
tis lobis apice callosis, petalis venoso-pictis subequi- 
longis calycem superantibus, 2 inferioribus cuneatis 
apice fimbriatis, 3 superioribus, spathulatis lamina fiin- 
briata ungue longe ciliata, calcare petala 3 excedente. 
Tropmotum Moritzianum. Klotzsck; in Ic. Pl. Rar. Hort. 
Berol. Fasc. 3. t. 17. 
The seeds of this new and very beautiful Tropzo.um 
were given to Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden 
by Mr. Locxuart of Trinidad, who received them from 
Cumana. They soon vegetated, and the plants blossomed 
in July, 1840, for the first time, in the greenhouse. Others 
placed in the open border grew more vigorously, but 
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