510 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
LYSIONOTUS. ‘To this genus two other species 
should shortly be added—DL. pauciflora and L. carnosa. 
The former is stated by Mr. Hemsley to promise well; and 
the latter has been raised from seed at Kew, and is 
described as a dwarf shrub with white flowers, lilac-tinged, 
and borne in the axils of the leaves. 
L. longiflora (long-flowered), A synonym of schynanthus 
longijlora. 
LYSISTIGMA. A synonym of Taccarum (which 
see). 
MABA. To the species described on p. 311, Vol. IT., 
the following should be added: 
M. natalensis (Natal). #., females solitary, axillary, sub- 
sessile ; corolla tin. long, densely silvery-pubescent externally. 
d. on very short, puberulous petioles, Zin. to lin. long, ovate, 
oblong, or elliptic, obtuse, dark green above, pale and 
reticulate-veined beneath. South Africa. A much-branched, 
twiggy shrub. 
Fic. 543. MACKAYA BELLA. 
MACARANGA (a native name). Including Mappa. 
Orp. Euphorbiaceew. A genus embracing upwards of 
eighty species of stove trees or shrubs, allied to Ricinus ; 
they are confined to the Old World, and are chiefly 
Malayan. Spikes or racemes axillary or lateral, simple 
or slightly branched, or paniculate at the tips of the 
branches. Leayes alternate, petiolate, often large, entire 
or four-lobed. Only one species is known in gardens. 
For culture. see Codizum. 
M. Porteana (Marius Porté’s).* fl. pale reddish, sessile, 
inconspicuous, in axillary, pyramidal, laxly-branched panicles, 
all male, except an occasional terminal female or bisexual. 
April. _@. at the tip of the stem, peltate, orbicular-ovate, 
nearly 3ft. broad, dark green above with golden nerves, rosy 
beneath when young; petioles 2ft. to 3ft. long; stipules 
Jin, to 6in. long. Stem woody, erect, 4ft. to 44ft. high, marked 
with triangular scars. Philippine Islands, 1888. Tree. (B. M. 
7407 ; R. H. 1888, p. 176, f. 56.) SYN. Mappa Porteana (G. C. 
1894, ii., p. 284). 
MACARTNEY ROSE. 
MACBRIDEA (named in honour of Dr. James 
Macbride, of Sonth Carolina). Orp. Labiate. A small 
genus (two species) of glabrous or sparsely hairy, green- 
house perennials, natives of North America, and closely 
allied to Physostegia, Flowers purple or white, showy, 
sessile; inflorescence rather few-flowered, capitate. 
Leaves lanceolate or spathulate-oblong, repand-toothed or 
entire, minutely dotted. M. pulchra has been introduced, 
See Rosa bracteata. 
Macbridea—continued. 
It thrives in sandy peat and loam, with good drainage, 
and may be increased by cuttings in May. 
M. pulchella (rather pretty). A synonym of M. pulehra. 
M. pulchra (pretty). (/., corolla rose-purple, lin. long, streaked 
with a deeper hue and white, the upper lip entire. Late 
summer. J. oblong-lanceolate, mostly acute at both ends, 
tapering to the petioles, thinnish; floral ones ovate, acute. 
Stems simple, lft. or more in height. North California, &e., 
1804. Syn. M. pulchella. 
MACDONALDIA. A synonym of Thelymitra 
(which see). 
MACFADYENA (named in honour of James 
Macfadyen, M.D., author of the ‘Flora of Jamaica,” 
1837). Syn. Phryganocidia. Including Dolichandra. Orn. 
Bignoniacee. A genus embracing about twenty - five 
species of tall-climbing, stove shrubs, natives of tropical 
America, closely allied to Bignonia. Flowers showy, on 
axillary peduncles; calyx membranous, broad; corolla 
tube long and rather broad, the limb  sub-bilabiate, 
consisting of five rounded, spreading, slightly unequal 
lobes ; stamens four, didynamous. Leaves tri- or bifoliolate, 
or sometimes decompound. For culture of the species here 
described, see Bignonia. 
M. Dolichandra (Dolichandra). jl. red, one to three to a 
peduncle at the tips of the branches; calyx spathe-like, cut to 
the middle. 7. opposite, each having two oblong leaflets and 
often ending in a tendril. Argentina, 1891. A highly glabrous, 
ornamental species. SynNS. Dolichandra eynanchoides, Spathodea 
Dolichandra. 
M. corymbosa (SYN. Spathodea corymbosa) has also been 
introduced, 
MACKAYA. There are few more beantifal green- 
house flowering shrubs than M. bella, whose showy lilae 
and purple-striped flowers are shown at Fig. 543. 
Where many fail with this shrub is in not pruning at 
the right time. This must be after the period of 
Howarine, removing some 2in., or a little more, of each 
shoot. 
MACLEAYA. A synonym of Bocconia (which see). 
MACLURA. To the species described on p. 312, 
Vol. IL., the following varieties should be added: 
M. aurantiaca inermis (unarmed). J. larger than in the 
type. Branches spineless. 1896. (R. H. 1896, p. 33, f. 10.) 
M. tinctoria (dyers’). A synonym of Chlorophora tinctoria. 
MACODES. This genus now embraces abont five 
species, differing from Anectochilus in its spurless, sessile 
lip, with a three-lobed limb, the front lobe narrow- 
spathulate. To the species M. Petola (Fig. 544), described 
on p. 312, Vol. II., the following should be added : 
M. javanica (Javanese). The correct name of Anectochilus 
javanicus. (B. M. 7037.) 
Fic. 544. MACODES PETOLA. 
