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MACLEANIA longiflora. 
Lony-flowered Macleania. 
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MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. VACCINIACEE. 
MACLEANIA. Calyx truncatus obsoletissime 5-dentatus, 5-alatus, 
inferné ovario adherens. Corolla cylindracea, limbo 5-fido. Stamina decem 
basi corollae inserta, filamentis per totam longitudinem in urceolum connatis. 
Anthere basi affixse, dorso mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuatz et 
rimula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovarium 5-loculare, multiovulatum. 
Fructus :—Bacca ? — Frutex habitu Thibaudise vel Ceratostemmatis. Flores 
numerosi axillares secundi. Folia subsecunda. Rami cortice deciduo.— 
Hooker Ic. 2. t. 109. 
M. longiffora ; foliis sessilibus ovali-oblongis obtusis reticulatis obsoleté tri- 
plinerviis, axillis trifloris, corollis cylindraceis angulatis concoloribus, 
When Sir William Hooker named a plant Macleania, he 
not only paid a well-merited compliment, for few British 
merchants have deserved better of Botany than Mr. John 
Maclean of Lima, but he founded a good genus. A less 
accurate observer might indeed have referred it to Thiebaudia, 
a group of plants from the same countries, and very similar 
in habit; but each anther of Thiebaudia is divided into two 
long tubes, which open at their point; while, on the contrary, 
in Macleania the anthers have only one tube each. 
The plant now described is very near M. angulata, figured 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3979, and said to be from Peru. 
But that species has shorter and broader leaves with manifest 
stalks, and the flowers are also shorter, contracted at the 
orifice, and yellow there. Their colour, too, is represented 
as much more vivid than in our species. 
A warm greenhouse shrub, which requires to be kept in 
an intermediate house during winter. It may be potted in a 
compost, consisting of sandy loam and peat in equal propor- 
tions. Owing to its producing very fleshy roots, a large pot 
or tub will be required, or where there is convenience it ı1s- 
