Tab. 4323 . 
TROPiEOLUM sPECiosuM. 
Showy Indian-Cress. 
Nat. Ord. Teop^ole^. — Octandeia Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx B-partitas, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5 insequalia, 
3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stamina 8 ab ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3 sub- 
erosa reniformia indehiscentia. Semhia magna exalbuminosa. Embryo magnus; 
cotyledonibus 2 rectis crassis. DC. 
Teop^eolum speciomm ; volubile, fobis subpeltatis sex-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo- 
obovatis obtusis brevi-petiolatis, subtus caule stipulisque tri- 6-partitis 
pdosiusculis, pedunculis folio 3-plo longioribus, petalis cordatis bilobis 
stipitatis calycem longe calcaratum superantibus, superioribus duplo mi- 
noribus obcordatis cuneato-attenuatis. 
Teop^olum speciosum. Endl. et Poepp. Gen.et 8p.Pl\Chil. et Peruv. v. 1. p. 22. 
t. 35. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 466. 
This is a charming addition to our species ot the handsome 
genus TropaBohim, a little known one to botanists, imported by- 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons of Exeter, through the intervention of 
their excellent collector, Mr. W. Lobb. Being a native of Chiloe, 
no wonder it bears our climate through all the summer months; 
but whether it will endure the winter in the open air in 
England remains to be ascertained. Poeppig discovered the 
species in the feubandine regions of South Chili and in the 
province of Antuco. It will certainly prove equally hardy with 
and more ornamental than most of our Tropwola. In Messrs. 
Veitch’s Garden at Exeter it produced its richly coloured 
blossoms in June, 1847 : the plant was soon after exhibited at 
the Chiswick Horticultural show. 
Descr. Stems many feet long, slender, twining, herbaceous, 
branched. Leaves alternate, on short wavy petioles, subpeltate, 
cut to the base into six, obovato-oblong, very obtuse leaflets, 
green, the younger ones tinged with red. Stipules small, divided 
much in the same way as the lamina of the leaf, into three to 
six, narrow, almost linear segments. Peduncles one-flowered, 
axillary, solitary, flexuose, almost cirrhose, red, twice or thrice 
SEPTEMBER IsT, 1847. 
