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Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Troprotem.) 
Generic Character, 
Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calearato. Petala 5 in- 
qualia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida, Stam. 8 ab 
‘ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3 suberosa reniformia indehis- 
centia hinc sulcata rotundata. Semina magna, exalbumi- 
hosa, loculum suum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia. 
Embryo magnus : cotyledonibus 2 rectis, crassis, junioribus 
distinctis, dein arcte conferruminatis et etiam cum spermo- 
dermate adhzrentibus, ima basi subdistinctis, radicula intra 
cotyledonum processus latente, tubercula 4 mox radicellas 
proferentia gerente. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
_ Tropmoium * tricolorum; scandens gracillimum, foliis pel- 
tatis profunde 6-lobis, lobis oblongo-obovatis obtusis 
integerrimis, calyce obovato in calcar longum atten- 
uato, petalis obovatis obtusis unguiculatis calycem 
panlulum excedentibus. 
Trorxorum tricolorum. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 270. 
Descr. Root tuberous. Stem filiform, much branched ; 
anches entangled, purple, shining. Leaves alternate, 
Pelioled, palmato-digitate, round, (eight lines across) foe 
ne 
* From syrasr, a warlike trophy, “ from the shield-like leaves and the 
: 2 pny, : 
t Severs, shaped like golden helmets, pierced through and eer 
and stained with blood, which might very well justify such an allusion. . 
