Tab. 43:37. 
TROPtEOLUM UMBELLATUM. 
Umbellate Tropaolum, or Indian Cress. 
Nat. Ord. Trop^eole*^. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. {Fide supra. Tab. 4097.) 
Tropacolum iimhellatum ; glabrum, scandens, folds subpeltatis cordato-quinque- 
lobis, floribus umbeUatis, calyce cylindraceo calcare obtuso subcurvato loii- 
giore, petalis spathulatis rectis acutis, 3 calycein superantibus, 2 minimis 
squaraiformibus. 
One of the most remarkable of all the Tropaola, which have 
been characterized as bearing one-Jlowered peduncles; here the 
flowers are umbellate, of a rich orange-red colour, tinged with 
green, and so copious as quite to overpower the foliage. Por its 
first discovery the merit is due to Professor Jameson of Quito, 
who gathered it on Pilzhum, a mountain to which, he observes, 
it is quite peculiar, at an elevation of 7,000 feet above the level 
of the sea. 
To Messrs. Veitch and Sons we owe its introduction to our 
gardens, through their collector Mr. W. Lobb, who probably 
collected it on the same spot as that above mentioned, and from 
the nature of its locality their can be little doubt it will prove 
to be among the most hardy of the genus. It flowered in 
Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery during the summer months of 1847. 
Descr. Root (according to Professor Jameson) a tuber of three 
or four pounds weight. Stem climbing, terete, slender, fleshy, 
purple, zigzag. Leaves remote, on long flexuose petioles, sub- 
peltate, cordate, deeply five-lobed, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 
mucronate while young. Peduncles axillary, about as long as 
the petiole, bearing an umbel of five to six or more flowers, and 
small subulate bracts at the base of the peduncle and pedicels. 
Calyx orange-red, tipped with green at both extremities, most 
so when young, cylindrical, the limb erect, unequally five-lobed, 
the base extended into a curved blunt spur which is shorter than 
NOVEMBER IST, 1847. 
