MAURAN'DIA BARCLAYIA'NA. 
Barclay’s maurandia. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMtA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHOLARINjE. 
Native of 
Heig^ht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
12 feet. 
May, Nov. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 337. 
This inestimable addition to our limited list of 
climbing plants, bears the names of two eminent 
encouragers of botany. Dr. Maurandy, Professor of 
Botany at Carthagena; and Robert Barclay, Esq. 
late of Bury Hill, Surrey. 
Mr. Barclay, whose death occurred in 1830, was 
amongst the most zealous encouragers of the culti- 
vation of ornamental plants and edible vegetables. 
Possessed of ample means, acquired by extensive 
commercial pursuits, united to a liberal mind, he 
became not only an active supporter of botany, and 
of natural history in general, but also, it may justly 
be said, the liberal patron of all scientific pursuits. 
Mr. Barclay greatly aided the cause of botany by 
making himself the centre of vegetable exchange. 
He maintained a constant correspondence with emi- 
nent botanists of the European continent. North and 
South America, Islands of the Indian Ocean, and 
other intermediate countries. He liberally supplied 
them with such plants and seeds, as their respective 
situations demanded; and they, in return, transmit- 
ted him riches of the temperate or torrid zones, as 
their several localities afforded opportunity. 
85 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
