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TrOP/EOLUM LOBBIANUM. Mr. LoBB's 



Indian Cress, or Nasturtium. 



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Class and Order. 



OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Trop^ole^;. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala b 

 inaequalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stamina 8 ab 

 ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3 suberosa reiiiformia indehis- 

 centia. Semina magna exalbuminosa. Embryo magnus; 

 cotyledon i bus 2 rectis crassis. De Cand. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Trop^eolum Lobbianum; foliis orbicularis obscure lobatis 

 peltatis (lobis mucronulatis) subtus glaucis cauleque 

 scandente, petiolis pedunculisque pilosis, petalis caly- 

 cem attenuato-calcaratum pilosum superantibus, peta- 

 lis obovatis, 2 superioribus integerrhnis sublobatis, 3 

 inferioribus minoribus grosse deutatis inferne fimbria- 

 tis longe unguiculatis. 



Tropeolum Lobbianum. Hort. Veitch. 



A very desirable new species of Indian Cress, which 

 justly bears the name here given to it by one of our most 

 distinguished and liberal cultivators, Mr. Veitch of the 

 Nursery, Exeter. It was detected by his collector, Mr. 

 Lobb, in Columbia, and sent home in the early part of 

 1843, and bore its handsome and bright-colored flowers in 

 November of the same year. Framed upon those wire 

 trellises, which are now so commonly fixed to garden pots, 

 it makes a charming appearance with its delicate leaves 

 and bright flame-colored flowers. 



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