432 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 



perennial herbs of climbing habit, with mostly alternate leaves, and 

 showy flowers of violet, purple, or rose-colour. The corolla is tubular- 

 bell-shaped, unequally iive-lobed, but the mouth not closed as in 

 AntiiThinum. The capsule opens with several valves. The species 

 lire natives of Mexico. 



Principal species. Maurandya barclayana (Barclay's). Stem climbing 

 ■ by means of the long, twisting leaf-stalks, 10 feet high. 

 Leaves iive-lobed, with heart-shaped base. Ivy-like. Flowers violet- 

 purple, tube greenish, curved, downy; throughout the summer. 

 Introduced 1825. Plate 208. 



M. SCANDENS (climbing). Stem chmbing. Leaves heart-shaped, 

 strongly-toothed, hairy. Flowers smootli, purplish violet: June to 

 September. Introduced 1834. Commonly known as Lopliospermum 

 scandens. 



Cultivation. ^^^^^ ^^^^^' ^^'^^^^ ^« ^^^ i"ost suitable soil for 



Maurcmdyas. In the greenhouse they flower during the 

 greater part of the year; but out of doors they must be treated as 

 annuals. Seeds should be sown in slight heat in March, and the 

 seedlings grown on in the same temperature until well-established little 

 plants, when they can be transferred to the greenhouse for permanent 

 growth there, or hardened preparatory to planting outside, in a sunny 

 position, against a trellis. They should not be turned outside until the 

 middle of May or beginning of June. They are admirably adapted for 

 training against pillars or on the stems of large specimens in conserva- 

 tories. Cuttings may also be prepared from the young shoots about 

 August, inserted under a bell-glass, and shaded from the sun ; or in 

 sprnig, and struck in a gentle hot-bed under glass. 

 Description of Mdnnnh/i/a b< i relay mia, rednced. Fig. 1 is a section 



tluough an enlarged blossom; 2, a seed, natural size and 

 enlarged ; 3, a seedling. 



CAPE FIGWORT 



Natural Order Scrophularine^. Genus Phygelius 



Phvgelius (Greek, phyga, flight, and helios, the sun .-= loving shade). 

 A genus consisting of two species of erect shrubs, with opposite leaves 

 and showy scarlet flowers. The corolla is long and tubular, curved, and 

 with five round, spreading lobes. Natives of South Africa : only one is 

 cultivated here. 



