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climbing character ; the leaves are rather peltate, cut to the 

 base into six leaflets ; the flowers are solitary, and of a rich 

 vermilion-red, yellowish near the claw ; this is a lovely species 

 for mixing with the yellow-flowered kinds. T. umbellatum 

 is a new species from Quito, and a most lovely plant, 

 differing from other species by the flowers being in umbels, 

 and so numerous as almost to conceal the leaves, the latter 

 are deeply five-lobed; the umbels consist of six or more 

 flowers, and are of an orange-red tipped with green; it 

 blooms in the summer, and it is supposed that it will prove 

 as hardy as the other introduced species. T. Smithii, a 

 Columbian species, is also very beautiful, and, though hardy, 

 is a charming climber also for the greenhouse ; leaves pel- 

 tate, and five-lobed, on long slender stalks ; flowers solitary ; 

 calyx dull brick-red, spur green at the tip ; petals orange, 

 toothed and fringed with red, the two upper are small, the 

 three lower large ; it flowers all the summer. 



These plants are all of easy cultivation in good soil. 



MALVACEAE. 



Exogens, with showy flowers, having involucres of various 

 forms. Calyx five-parted, joined at the edges. Petals five, twisted 



