MACLEA'YA CORDA'TA. 
HEART-LEAVED MACLEAVA. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PAPA VERACE*. 
Native of 
Heijvht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Cliiiia. 
6 feet. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1795. 
No. 354. 
This genus has been named by Robert Brown, 
after Alexander Macleay, Secretary to the Linnean 
Society. Cordata, from the Latin cor, the heart; 
a term applied to the shape of its foliage. 
The Macleaya cordata will be better known to 
most of our readers by its Linnean name, Bocconia 
cordata. From the genus Bocconia it has been se- 
parated, on account of its want of agreement in 
several parts of its inflorescence, as well as in the 
number of its seeds. 
This plant is only seen to advantage when it has 
remained three or four years undisturbed, in a fresh 
light loamy soil, and open situation. Under such 
circumstances, it will produce several stately upright 
stems, with numerous pannicles of its delicate flow- 
ers; which, individually considered, are but humble, 
yet in the aggregate they become exceedingly inte- 
resting. Exposed stamens alone, surrounding the 
germen, form these airy flowers ; thus, destitute of 
their legitimate apparel, a corolla, they are left to 
shiver before the breeze; and nature seems to have 
placed them on a pinnacle, the more to embitter their 
feelings. Paley’s crocus was not half so forlorn. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 142. 
