SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



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Maurandya Barclayana Lindl., Barclay's Eoving Sailor, Mexican, re- 

 corded as found in Bermuda by Reade, Lefroy, H. B. Small, Jones and as 

 cultivated here, by Verrill, has flowers and leaves similar to those of M. 

 scandens, but the sepals are densely glandular-pubescent. I have not met 

 with it. H. B. Small 's description points to M. scandens. 



Maurandya erubescens (Don) A. Gray, Red Maurandya, Mexican, is 

 grown as an ornamental vine on porches and trellises, and locally seems estab- 

 lished, as at Orange Valley; its stems and triangular-hastate leaves are pubes- 

 cent, the ovate-lanceolate sepals nearly 1' long, the rose-red corolla about 3' 

 long. [Lophospermum erubescens Zuce.] 



5. RUSSELLIA Jacq. 



Shrubby plants, with opposite or whorled leaves, sometimes reduced to 

 mere scales, and cymose or panicled, mostly showy flowers. Calyx-lobes ovate. 

 Corolla tubular, or tubular-funnelform, the tube long, the lobes short, some- 

 what unequal. Stamens 4, with divergent anther-sacs; no staminodes. Cap- 

 sule ovoid to globose. [In honor of Alexander Russell, English physician and 

 traveller, who died in 1786.] About 15 species, natives of tropical America. 

 Type species: Bussellia sarmentosa Jacq. 



1. Russellia equisetiformis Schl. & Cham. 

 RussELLiA. Heath. (Fig. 378.) A gla- 

 brous, much-branched shrub, lh°-4:° high, 

 with spreading or arching striate branches, 

 the twigs very slender. Leaves of the stem 

 and branches, or most of them, reduced to 

 acute scales about 1" long, those of sterile 

 twigs spatulate, 7" long or less ; calyx about 

 2" long; corolla bright red, about V long, 

 its lobes ovate, 2"-3" long; capsule ovoid. 

 [B. juncea Zucc] 



Roadsides and banks, escaped from gar- 

 dens, in which it is common. Introduced. 

 Native of Mexico. Naturalized in the West 

 Indies. Flowers from spring to autumn and 

 is very showy. 



6. BRAMIA Lam. 

 Prostrate or diffuse herbs, with opposite obtuse mostly entire leaves, and 

 small peduneled flowers, mostly solitary in the axils. Calyx subtended by 2 

 bracts, 5-parted, the upper segment the broadest. Corolla nearly regular, the 

 tube cylindric, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Style 

 slender; stigma capitate, or 2-lobed. Capsule septicidally dehiscent. Seeds 

 numerous. [From Brami, a Malabar name.] About 20 species, of warm and 

 tropical regions. Type species: Bramia indica Lam. 



