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MACLEANIA longiflora. 

 Long-flowered Macleania. 



MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Vacciniace^. 



MACLEANIA. Calyx truncatus obsoletissime 5-dentatus, 6-alatus, 

 inferne ovario adliserens. Corolla cylindracea, limbo 5-fido. Stamina decern 

 basi coroUse inserta, filamentis per totam longitudinem in urceolum connatis. 

 AnthercE basi affixse, dorso muticse, apice in tubum simplicem attenuatse 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. longiflora ; foliis sessilibus ovali-oblongis obtusis reticulatis obsolete tri- 

 plinerviis, axillis trifloris, coroUis 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 is 



