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shaped follicular mericarps ; pericai-p thick, smooth or wrinkled, or 

 sometimes winged. Seeds comose. — Distrib. About 70 species : in the 

 tropics of both hemispheres, one South European. 



Plant turning blue in drying; flowers small, in clusters in a 

 thyrsoid panicle ; corolla campanulate, lobes short, with tufts 

 of hair at the mouth ; corona-processes subulate-acuminate, 

 longer than the anthers .. .. .. ..1. M. tinctoria. 



Plant brown when dry ; flowers in pedunculate corymbose 

 cymes; corolla tubular-campanulate, lobes linear, glabrous; 

 corona-processes '2-lobed, outer flattened, inner acute, shorter 

 than the anthers . . . . . . . . 2. J/. Scortechinii. 



Plant greenish-brown when dry ; flowers in clusters in a long 

 spike or raceme ; corolla urceolate, lobes lanceolate ; corona- 

 processes none or small, and then adnate to the anthers . . 3. M. thyrsiflara. 

 Plant greyish when dry ; flowers in pedunculate umbels ; corolla 

 rotate, lobes broadly rounded; corona-processes large, round, 

 fleshy, with an acute beak shorter than, or equal to, the 

 anthers . . . . . . . . . . i. M. volubilis. 



1. Maesdenia tinctoria, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. Edinb. I. 30 (1808). 

 A climbing shrub ; stem stout, smooth ; branchlets slender, smooth, 

 uppermost pubescent, the whole plant when dry having a blueish-black 

 tinge. Leaves membranous when dry ; ovate or ovate-oblong, shortly 

 and abruptly acuminate, sometimes long caudate-acuminate at apex, 

 rounded or cordate at base ; both surfaces finely pubescent when young, 

 afterwards glabrous ; 3 to 9 in. long, 1 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender, 

 usually pubescent, furnished above at the base and partly on the petiole 

 with a group or string of small glands ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, not 

 conspicuous, straight or slightly curved, usually at about 50^ with the 

 midrib ; reticulations transverse, slender, obscure ; petiole slender, 

 puberulous, '75 to 1'25 and even 2 in. long, twisted and curved in the 

 middle. Cymes in densely flowered interrupted clusters along or on the 

 branches of a thyrsoid panicle reaching 3 to 6 in. in length and -5 to 

 1 in. in diam., grey-puberulous ; peduncles o to I'O in. long ; pedicels 

 slender, -15 in. long; buds ovate; flowers yellow, blue when dry. Calyx- 

 lobes ovate, pubescent wdthout, ciliate, 3- to 5-nerved, membranous, 

 ■05 in. long; glandular scales 5, minute. Corolla cylindric-campanulate ; 

 tube slightly constricted at mouth, furnished within with 5 lines of 

 retrorse stiff hairs -075 in. long ; lobes rounded, erect or spreading in 

 flower, -025 to "05 in. long, each furnished within with a tuft of stiff 

 bristles. Corona-processes membranous ; the apex subulate-acuminate, 

 longer than the anthers. Anthers with membranous incurved appen- 

 dages ; pollen-masses oblong, attached by long somewhat clavate 



