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TROP^OLUM JARRATTII. 
(jarratt's trop^kolum.) 
class. order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
TROP^OLE^. 
Generic Character. — See vol. ii. p. 193. ? 
Specific Character Root perennial. Stem climbing, slender, but far moi-e vigorous than T. tru 
colorum ; much branched. Leaves alternate, six and seven lobed. Leaf -stalk one inch long, slender, 
twining like the branches. Flower-stalks from one inch and a half to two inches and a half long. 
Calyx bright orange scarlet, with spots of yellow at the base, five-cleft ; segments blunt. Petals five, 
inserted on the calyx just below the incision of the segments, bright yellow, the two upper 
pencilled with a rich bi'own. Stamens eight. Style shorter than the stamens. Germen three- 
lobed. 
This new and highly interesting species of Tropeeolum was imported in August 
1836, from Santiago, by Messrs. Youell, nurserymen and florists, Yarmouth ; and 
named by them in compliment to John Jarratt, Esq., of Camerton House, near 
Bath, a spirited horticulturist. 
In general appearance it resembles T. tricolorum, from which however it is obvi- 
ously distinguished, as will appear from the following. The flowers are much larger 
than those of T. tricolorum, far more brilliant in colour, besides the additional yellow 
on the outside of the flower, as well as the two upper petals being pencilled with a 
rich brown ; and last, though not the least point of difference, is its robust habits, 
which will render it no mean object for the flower-garden during the summer months. 
We are strongly impressed with the idea, that it will prove more hardy than any 
of the previously-introduced species, it having produced its flowers in a cool green- 
house which has been heated merely at intervals to exclude frost. 
A more profuse blooming plant we scarcely remember to have witnessed, and 
