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TROPiiOLUM MORITZIANUM. 
(mORITz’s INDIAN CRESS.) 
CLASS. 
OCTANDRIA. 
ORDER. 
MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
TROPiEOLACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted ; upper lobe spurred. Petals five, unequal ; three lower ones 
smaller and evanescent. Stamens eight, free from each other at the base. Carpels three, sub- 
erose, kidney-shaped, indehiscent, furrowed, roundish. Seeds large, without albumen, attached to 
the cell, and conforming to it in shape. Embryo large. Cotyledons two, straight and thick. 
Specific Character. — Plant an herbaceous perennial. Stems climbing. Leaves peltate, inclining to a 
roundish figure, smooth, with seven or nine lobes. Petals with coloured veins, nearly equal in 
length to the segments of the calyx ; two inferior ones cuneate, fimbriated at the top, three superior 
ones spatulate, fimbriated above, with the claw much ciliated. 
If this new and scarce species of Tropceolum produced an equal number of 
flowers to T. tricolorum , which is on all hands admitted to be the best of the 
genus, it would be a prettier and more desirable plant than that chief of herbaceous 
climbers, on account of its finer foliage, more luxuriant habitude, and the delicate 
fimbriation of its larger, more expansive, and quite as showy-coloured blossoms. 
These' characteristics, indeed, will render it a superlatively excellent plant for the 
general cultivator ; and its blooming in the autumnal season would yet more 
enhance its value, in consequence of the lack of good greenhouse flowers at that 
period, should it prove, by longer experience of its habit, to be a profuse-flowering 
species. 
That this latter will ultimately be the case, we consider more than probable ; 
for the specimens that we have hitherto seen have been but small, and placed in a 
variety of circumstances which may not have been congenial. In its aspect, it 
seems most related to T. tuberosum , and the larger-leaved species. Its foliage is 
of the peltate shape common to some other kinds, but less rank and coarse, and, 
having a neat yellow protuberance at the extremity of each of its principal veins, 
which increase in size with the growth of the leaf, is quite an interesting object. 
