1935 



* TROP.EOLUM tricolor. 



Thrcc-colourcd TropcEolum. 



OCTANDRIA M.O'NOGYmA. 



Nat. Old. BaLSAMINACE^E, § TROPiEOLE*. 



TROPMOLUM. Supra, vol. Q.fol. 718. 



T. tricolor ; scandens, gracile, foliis peltatis 5-6-partltis : laeiniis obovatis ob- 

 longisve obtusis, floribus solitariis pedicellis multo brevioribus, calycibus 

 turbiiiatis coloratis petalis obovatis integerrimis aequalibus calcare gracLli 

 attenuato brevioribus. 



T. tricolorum. Sweet Brit. Fl. Card. t. 270. Hooker in Bat. Mag. t. 3169. 



Like the neat little T. hruchyceras, figured in the last 

 number of the Botanical Register, this is a native of bushy 

 places on the hills near Valparaiso, whence it has been for 

 some years introduced to our gardens ; so that it is now as 

 common as the former is rare. 



For some time after its arrival it was a puny sickly plant, 

 shewing but little sign of the extraordinary beauty that 

 every one now knows is its attribute ; but the skill of our 

 excellent English gardeners has so completely overcome any 

 difficulties in its management, that nothing is now more 

 common than to see large pieces of treillage covered with 

 hundreds of its gay, scarlet, and purple flowers. 



The most ornamental mode of displaying its graceful 

 mode of growth, is by allowing it to climb over wires fixed 

 to the pot, and bent into elegant forms, especially if the 

 wires are made to represent the skeleton of some solid figure, 

 and not kept upon the same plane. 



The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lowe 

 and Co. of Clapton, some years since. 



• See folio 1547. 



