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Named after a Dr. Maurandy, of Carthagena. A Mexican 

 genus of elegant greenhouse climbers. M. Barclayana has 

 lovely blue or purple flowers, and there is a variety with 

 white ; semperflorens has rose-coloured flowers, and antirrki- 

 niflora purple; these plants flower all the summer, if shifted 

 into large pots and a rich soil, in May. 



LOPHOSPEEMUM. 



Gen, Char. {Bidynamia Aiigiospermia.) Calyx five-cleft; co- 

 rolla also five-cleft, and of a long tubular form. 



A genus of beautiful climbing plants, natives of Mexico. 

 L. Rhodochiton [Rhodochiton volubile) has large drooping 

 flowers, with a light purple or pinkish calyx of a five-cleft, 

 open form, and a beautiful bell-shaped corolla, an inch and 

 a half long, divided into five at the edge, of an intense purple, 

 clothed with white glandular hairs. L. eruhescens is red- 

 flowered ; scandens also red, having a variety with spotted 

 flowers ; spectabilis and Hendersonii are also handsome plants 

 for the greenhouse, and they will also bear planting out. 



