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Macleania angulata. Angled-flowered 

 Macleania. 



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Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Erice2e. ) 



Generic Character. 

 *,. 

 Cal. truncatus obsoletissime 5-dentatus, 5-alatus, inferne 

 ovario adhserens. Cor. urceolata vel subcylindracea. Stam. 

 10. Filamenta in tubum connata. Antherce basi affixae, 

 dorso muticae, apice in tubum simplicem attenuates et ri- 

 mula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovarium 5-loculare, 

 multiovulatum. Bacca ? — Frutices habitu Thibaudiae vel 

 Ceratostemmatis. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Macleania* angulata; foliis ovatis obtusis, ax ill is trifloris, 

 corolla ovato-urceolata pentagona. 



In the ff Icones Plantarum," vol. 2. tab. 109, I esta- 

 blished the Genus Macleania upon a very handsome shrub 

 found by Mr. Mathews at Jambrosbamba in the Andes 

 of Peru. In June, 1842, I was favored by Mr. Forbes 

 with a second species of the same Genus, which had flow- 

 ered in the stove of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at 

 Woburn, and which had been raised from seeds sent by 

 Mr. M'Lean himself from the Peruvian Andes. It is an 

 evergreen shrub of great beauty, and well deserving a 

 place in every collection. 



Descr. 



* Named in compliment to John M'Lean, Esq., of Lima, a Peruvian 

 merchant, who has rendered great service to Botany, by his own individual 

 exertions, and by his patronage of the late Mr. Mathews. (See Lond. 

 Journal of Bot. v. I. p. 393.^ 



