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Trop/eollm polyphyllum. Many-leaved 

 Indian-cress. 



Class and Order. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Trop^ole^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-partitus, lobo sup. calcarato. Pet. 5, inaequalia, 

 3 mferiora minora ant evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa basi libera. 

 tarpella 3 suberosa, reniformia, indehiscentia bine sulcata 

 rotundata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ARoPiEOLUM polyphyllum; prostratum, foliis digitato-pelta- 

 tjs profunde sectis lobis 7 — 9 obovatis (nunc oblongis 

 linearibusve) integris obcordatis unguiculatis v. si- 

 nuato-dentatis, petalis calycem attenuato-calcaratum 

 superantibus, 2 superioribusmajoribus magisque emar- 

 ginatis. 



Trop^olum polyphyllum. Cav. Ic. p. 4. p. 65. t. 305. 

 De Cand. Prod. v. 1. p. 684. Hook, et Am. Bot. Misc. 

 3. p. 161. Poepp. et Endl. 1. c. p. 24. t. 37./. 9 (leaf). 



C 3 ) gracile. Hook, et Am. 1. c. p. 161. var. mvriophyl- 

 lum. Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PL Chil. et 

 Peruv. p. 23. t. 31. 



Mr. Knight, of the Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chel- 



ea, has the gratification of introducing this beautiful 



Rop^eolum to our European gardens. None of the figures 



°ve quoted give anything like an adequate idea of the 



fatness a,, « beauty of the plant. My 6rst knowledge of 



witlft , lv . ed from Chilian specimens, which were loaded 



»°°d-sized blossoms, exactly as in the individuals now 



vol. Xl y. „ before 



