Tas. 8697. 
MAURANDIA Porpvst. 
Mexico. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE, ‘Tribe ANTIRRHINEAE. . 
Maoranp1, Ort.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 935. 
Maurandia Purpusii, 7. S. Brandegee in Zoe, vol. v. p. 256; A. Purpus in 
Mollers Deutsche Gdrtn.-Zeit. vol. xxviii. p. 446 cum figuris; species vix 
scandens M. erubescenti, A. Gray, proxima, sed planta minus glanduloso- 
pubescente, corollae multo minoris tubo superne minus ampliato differt. 
Herba perennis fere ubique breviter glanduloso-pubescens, radicibus basique 
caulis valde incrassatis et carnosis. Caules graciles, adscendentes vel 
rostrati, vix scandentes, metrales. Folia alterna, petiolata, late triangu- 
Sakorate, apice acuta, basi profunde cordata, irregulariter dentata vel 
crenata vel interdum fere integra, 3°5-4°5 cm. longa, basi 4-5 cm. lata; 
petiolus 3-4°5 cm. longus. lores speciosi, longe pedunculati, in axillis 
foliorum superiorum solitarii. Pedwncewli adscendentes, graciles, 7-10 cm. 
longi, saepissime foliis longiores. Calyx herbaceus, fere ad basin 
5-partitus ; lobi oblongo-ovati, apice subrotundati et apiculati, basi 
cordati, 1°5-1°7 cm. longi, 8-9 mm. lati. Corolla vivide roseo-purpurea, 
3°5-4 cm. longa, extra fere glabrata; tubus tubuloso-infundibuliformis, 
basi antice paulum ventricosus, superne gradatim et leviter ampliatus, 
8°5-4 cm. longus, apice 1°5 om. latus, intus praesertim basi glanduloso- 
pubescens; limbus patens, leviter 2-labiatus, subaequaliter 5-lobus, ad 
2°5 em. latus ; lobi suborbiculares, 7-10 mm. lati. Semina 4, duo longiora 
vix exserta; filamenta dense glanduloso-pubescentia. Ovariwm conicum, 
ut stylus staminibus brevioribus aequilongus apice integer, glanduloso- 
pubescens. Capsula ellipsoidea, apice rotundata, basi inaequalis, 12-13 
mm. lata, calyce paulum brevior, stylo persistente coronata. Semina 
suborbicularia, circiter 8 mm. lata, tuberculata, ala striata dentata vel 
sinuata (emarginata) ciroumdata.—S. A. Skan. 
This attractive plant was discovered by Mr. C. A. 
Purpus in the Sierra de Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico. He 
saw it in only one locality, and that was on the slopes 
of the Cerro de la Yerba, growing on limestone rocks 
and on the walls of old ruins. As seen in nature, with 
its growths hanging over the rocks and bearing numerous 
showy flowers, it presented a striking object. Seeds 
were sent to the Darmstadt Botanic Garden, from which 
some were received at Kew in 1912, and plants raised 
from these flowered in the Temperate House for the first 
ca _ time in July, 1915, supplying material for the present 
illustration. In the original description the peduncles 
_ are said to be only about two inches long, and the 
photographs in Méllers Deutsche Girtner-Zeitung of 
Fesrvary, 1917. 
