Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Torenia asiatica L.
Frost tender, trailing annual with serrated, lance-shaped leaves, to 5cm, and stout, axillary racemes of tubular, dark purple-blue flowers, with violet lateral lobes, blotched with purple, in summer. To 25cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Torenia asiatica L. var. concolor Lindl.
For details see Torenia asiatica L. Similar to the type but more open and loosely spreading than the species, the flowers of a more uniform blue, without the deep purple blotches.
Trachelospermum jasminoides (Lindl.) Lem.
Frost-hardy, woody, evergreen, twining climber with glossy oval leaves, to 10cm long, turning bronze-red in winter, and terminal and axillary cymes of intensely fragrant, pure white flowers, to 2.5cm across, in summer. To 9m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Tradescantia crassula Link & Otto
Tender herbaceous succulent with branching, ascending stems, oblong leaves and many-flowered, usually terminal umbels of white flowers. To 45cm. [RHSD].
Tradescantia pendula (Schnizl.) D.R.Hunt
Frost tender trailing or creeping, node-rooting perennial with ovate, fleshy, bluish-green leaves, to 10cm long, with two longitudinal silvery stripes above, and rich purple beneath, and paired, terminal cymes of purple-blue flowers throughout the year. [RHSE, Hortus].
Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
Frost tender, clump-forming perennial with rosettes of semi-erect, lance-shaped, fleshy, leaves, deep purple beneath, to 35cm long, and paired axillary cymes of white flowers, surrounded by long-lasting purple bracts, throughout the year. To 30cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Tradescantia spathacea Sm. var. vittata
See also Tradescantia spathacea Sw. Vittata has leaves with numerous longitudinal, pale yellow stripes above, deep purple beneath. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine figures both the type [BM t.1192/1809] and the variety variegata, otherwise known as vittata, much more richly coloured. [BM t.5079/1858].
Trichocereus chiloensis (Colla.) Britt. & Rose
Frost tender large shrub- or tree-like erect, ovate cactus, branching near the base, with up to 16 blunt ribs, strong, pale prickles, and diurnal, funnel-shaped flowers, white inside, tinged maroon outside. To 8m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Trichonema species unidentified
An unidentified plant, no description.
Tritonia crocata Ker-Gawl.
Half-hardy cormous perennial with erect linear leaves and spikes of up to 10 cup-shaped orange to pinkish-red flowers in spring. To 50cm. [RHSE, CECB, Hortus].
Tritonia deusta (Ait.) Ker-Gawl.
Cormous perennial with up to eight, lance-shaped leaves, and stems, to 50cm, sometimes 1-2 branched, bearing several regular, cup-shaped bright orange-red to orange-salmon flowers, in spring. It differs from Tritonia crocata mainly in having purple-black blotches on the haft of the three outer lobes. [RHSD, CECB, Grey].
Tritonia deusta (Ait.) Ker-Gawl. subsp. miniata (Jacq.) De Vos
See Tritonia deusta (Ait.) Ker-Gawl. for a description of the species. Miniata has bright red or scarlet flowers, the outer lobes without the dark blotch or stripe, the lower lobes often with a yellow blotch, sometimes edged with red, or with a dark spot on the mid-line. [RHSD, Hortus].
Tritonia Hendersonii Hort.
An umidentified species or hybrid of Tritonia or a related genus.
Tritonia species crimson
An unidentified species of Sparaxis or a related genus. No description.
Tritonia species large orange
Probably a variety of Tritonia crocata (L.) Ker-Gawl. or Tritonia deusta (Ait.) Ker-Gawl. which see.
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