PLATE DCXV1I. 



TROPiEOLUM PEREGRINUM. 



Hie Little Bird Plant. 



class viii. Order l 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Stamens. One Style. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx monophyllus, calcaratus, quinquefidus. 

 Petala duo ad quinque. Stigma trifidum, 

 •en stigmata tria. Drupae tres, siccae, et 

 monospermy. 



Cuf of one leaf with a spur five-cleft. Petals 

 two to five. Summits three, or summit 

 three-cleft. Berries three, dry, and one- 

 seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tiopjrolum petalis serrato-incisis,duobus maxi- 



petals 



mis, tribus minimis. Jacq, Hort. Schcenb. II much larger than the rest) three very 



1. p. 51. tat. 98. II small. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



I. Chives and pointal. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. . / 



1 hi 1 ropaeoium peregnnum grows naturally m Peru, and was gathered wild by the French naturalist 

 Feuillee near the town of Lima. The native name, according to that author, is Malla j the Spaniards 

 call it Paxanto, which signifies a little bird ; from the resemblance the expanded blossoms have to 

 little humming-birds Hying. Attaching itself by the long footstalks of the leaves to the branches, the 

 plant often ascends to the very summits of trees in its native soil ; and Professor Jacquin, director of the 

 Emperor of Germany's gardens at Schoenbrunn, informs us (in the work above quoted) that it grew 



open 



)Ut produced 



vated 



he grf en-house. A. B. Lambert, esq. 

 November, informs us that he culti- 



ducing almost innumerable blossoms. The seeds but rarely ripen in this country, and are generally im- 

 ported from Spain or Portugal. The plant, however, may be propagated by cuttings. Besides the five 

 species of Tropspoluno enumerated in the edition of the Species Plantarum by Wflldeoow, and the new 

 species in our last voume (1. pennatum), three more species are described and figured in the Flora Pe- 

 ruviana of Kuiz and Pavon , .some of which, and others of the many beautiful flowers of that country, 

 he great intercourse now carried on with South America gives us to hope that we may soon see. One of 



he spec.es m the Flora Peruviana having only two petals, has obliged us to make a little alteration in 



the generic character. ° 





