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Matonia continued. 
M. tinata (comb-like). fronds ample, fan-shaped, 1Aft. to 
wide, hard-coriaceous, each portion sub-scorpioideo-pinnate 
on the upper side, pinnules consequently all secund pectinato- 
innatifid. Receptacle of the sori expanded into a firm, mem- 
ranaceous, umbrella-shaped, obscurely six-lobed, stipitate in- 
volucre, which covers and incloses six large sessile capsules. 
Borneo, &c., 1839 ; 
MATRICARIA (so called from its former use in 
uterine affections). ORD. Compositæ. A genus of about 
seventy species of annual, rarely perennial, branched herbs, 
natives of Europe, North and South Africa, and West Asia. 
Flower-heads yellow, with the ray white or absent ; in- 
volucral bracts in few series, nearly equal; receptacle 
broad, flat or conical, elongate after flowering, naked. 
Leaves much-divided, with narrowed lobes. Few of the 
species are worthy of cultivation; the annuals are readily 
raised from seeds, and the perennials by divisions of the 
roots, or by cuttings. 
M. inodora flore-pleno (double-flowered, inodorous).* fl.-heads 
white. A double form of a native weed, a very floriferous and 
pretty border plant. See Fig. 525. In some gardens, it is met 
with under the name of Anthemis Chamomilla Jlore-pleno, 
MATTOCE, or PLANTER’S MATTOCK. A 
garden implement, about the size and shape of an ordi- 
nary pick, but differing from that tool in having only 
one end pointed, the other being flattened in a trans- 
verse direction to the handle, like that of a grubbing 
axe. It is very useful for penetrating and breaking up 
hard masses of earth, &. 
MAURANDYA (named after Dr. Maurandy, once 
Professor of Botany at Carthagena). Including Lopho- 
spermum and Usteria. ORD. Scrophularinee. A small 
genus (six species) of greenhouse, glabrous or pubescent 
herbs, confined to Mexico. Flowers violet, purple, or 
Tose, showy; pedicels axillary, ebracteate; calyx five- 
parted; corolla tube spurred at base; lip spreading. 
Leaves alternate, or the lower ones opposite, hastate, 
angularly lobed or thickly toothed. M. Barclayana is 
Fig. À WERING STEM AND DETACHED FLOWER 
85 = race on . BARCLAYANA, 
one of the best-known species; it should be treated as 
an annual, for summer flowering outside. M. erubescens 
and M. are well suited for a trellis or dwarf 
wall, outside, in a warm situation. All the species suc- 
ceed in any moderately rich sandy loam. Propagated by 
seeds, which should be sown, in early spring, on a 
slight hotbed, and the seedlings grown on prior to being 
Planted in greenhouses, or warm positions outside, in 
May or June; also by cuttings of young shoots, inserted, 
in August, under a shaded hand ape 1 f 
M. atrosanguineum dark bloody). ark purple; corolla 
funnel-shaped, enm E white glandular hairs ; throat cylin- 
drical. Summer, I. cordate, acuminated, coarsely and dentatel 
Serrated, 1 Plant clothed with shining, jointed hairs. 
(B. R. 1758.) 5 
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Maurandya continued. 
M. Barclayana (Barclay’s).* H., corolla 13 in. to 2in. long; tube 
downy, greenish, curved ; lobes ovate-roundish, emarginate, of a 
violet-purple colour. Summer. J. cordate, acuminated ; young 
ones somewhat hastate ; lower and middle ones obscurely five- 
lobed. 1825. See Fig, 526, (B. R. 1108; L. B. C. 1381.) 
M. erubescens (blushing). Al. large, rose-coloured, beset with 
capitate hairs; tube whitish beneath, marbled in various ways 
inside. Summer and autumn. 1. cordate, five-lobed, downy; 
lobes mucronate, crenated, or deeply serrated. Branches clothed 
with articulated, short, viscid hairs. 1830. (B. v. 242; B. M. 3037, 
5055; B. R. 1381, under name of Lophospermum erubescens.) 
M. Hendersoni (Henderson’s). Probably a variety of M. scandens. 
Fig. 527. FLOWERING BRANCH AND DETACHED FLOWER AND 
LEAF OF MAURANDYA SCANDENS, 
scandens (climbing).* fl. purplish-violet, glabrous. Summer. 
~ cordate, 9 deeply serrated, hairy. 1834, See Fi 
527. SYNS. Lophospermum scandens (B. i. 17; B. M. 3650; 
. B. F. G. ser. ii. 401) and Usteria scandens (A. B. R. 63). 
S. Hendersoni, with violet-purple flowers, striped or spotted 
with white, is probably a variety of this species. TN 
perfiorens (ever-flowering). f., corolla pale violet or 
* 12in. long, with emarginate lobes; tube variously fur- 
rowed; filaments rather villous at base; calyx segments lanceo- 
late-subulate, glabrous. l. mostly cordate-hastate. 1796. (B. M. 
.) 
MAURIA (named after Ernesto Mauri, an Italian 
botanist, 1791-1836). ORD. Anacardiacee. A genus 
comprising ten species of stove evergreen trees, inhabiting 
tropical America, They have axillary and inal 
panicles of hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers, and 
alternate, simple or impari-pinnate leaves. The two 
species once cultivated in this country, M. heterophylla 
and M. simplicifolia, are probably now lost to British 
gardens. ie 5 aS 5 
MAURITIA (named after Prince Maurice, Nassau, 
1567-1665, a supporter of natural history). Including 
Orophoma. ORD. Palmew. A genus ye i pi or 
seven species of handsome, large-growing, T, 9 
palms, natives of Northern Brazil, Guiana, an e : 
Indies. Flower-spikes pendulous, produced 1 
the leaves, often very large, and bearing the wers in 
numerous catkins, 9 ee ck l! * a gaa 
clothed with har es, overia ; co 
8 Leaves in a large crown, fan-shaped. geen 
thrive best in a compost of loam and peat; anc e po 
should, if possible, be placed in tanks of water. Propa- 
aer r y sogis, sows in S hotbed, in ig 2 
ick] i -pinnatifid ; pinnæ lanceo- 
277 ciliated, densely glaucus beneath: 
reed egg Tropical America. A curious and handsome 
‘dexuous). J. flabelliform-pinnatifid, dark green on 
M. a aer 3 semi-terete, channelled. Caudex un- 
eee Tropical America, 1816. A handsome plant. 
; IA (from marillæ, the jaws of an in- 
sect; referring to.a resemblance in the column and lip). 
ky 
ORD. Orchidew. An extensive genus of stove terrestrial 
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