base, with shallow rounded sinuosities between the lobes; lobes rounded, 
emarginate, having in the centre a little yellow callous tooth at the 
extremity of the nerve; petioles inches long) acting as cirrhi 
to support the plant. Peduncles (three inches long) solitary, single- 
flowered, longer than the petioles. Flowers funnel-shaped. Calyx 
reddish on the outside, yellow and streaked with red within; segments 
ovato-lanceolate, callous at the apex, the upper the shortest and nar¬ 
rowest, the two lower the longest, the intermediate ones the broadest; 
spur straight, tapered, twice as long as the limb, more fleshy in the 
upper half than towards its apex, nectariferous. Corolla little longer 
than the calyx, red on the outside, orange-coloured within; petals 
unequal, the two upper subsessile, multifid at the apex, entire and 
wedge-shaped at the base, four-nerved, the three lower with long claws, 
subrotund, palmate, segments acuminate, the lowest the narrowest, 
and passing into long cilise upon the upper half of the claws. Stamens 
rather distant, and nearly straight, rather shorter than the calyx ; 
anthers round, dark, pollen green, granules small, spherical. Pistil 
nearly as long as the filaments; germen green, glabrous, three-lobed, 
the lobes keeled ; style straight, stout; stigma of three acute segments, 
the upper being rather longer than the others. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The right of the Tro- 
paeolacese to rank as a distinct order, has been doubted. It contains 
only three ascertained genera, and only an inconsiderable number of 
species, yet it does seem to me that we cannot unite these with any of 
the orders to which they have been thought to be most nearly related. 
The whole order belongs to Mexico, or South America, and the differ¬ 
ent species of the genus Tropseolum are scattered from the Northern 
limit of the order, as far to the Southward as Buenos Ayres. They 
are used as stimulating salads, and the tuberous roots of our species, 
when cooked, are used extensively as an article of food. As ornaments 
in the flower border they have long been deservedly favourites, and 
the present species will be considered by florists a very acceptable 
addition. If the tuber be protected in the winter, thei’e seems little 
reason to doubt that it will, during summer, thrive well in the open air. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. This species was 
introduced from Cumana,into the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, last year, 
and the specimen here figured received from that establishment, 
flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 
September and October, potted in ordinary garden mould. Grah. 
Derivation or the Name. 
TROP^OLUMjfrom Tpoiraiov a war-like trophy. 
Synonymes. 
TROPAiOLUM Moritzianum. Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, leones PI. Rar. Hort, 
Berol., t. 17. Bot. Mag. 3844. 
