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CHAPTER X. 
MALESHERBIACEJ5. 
Essential Character. —Calyx tubular, membraneous, inflated, 5- 
lobed. Lobes imbricated in aestivation. Petals 5, alternating with tlie 
segments of the calyx, persistent convulute in lestivation arising on tlie 
outside of a short membraneous rim or corona. Stamens 5 or 10, 
perigynous. Filaments filiform, distinct or connected with the stipe of 
the ovarium. Anthers versatile. Ovarium superior, stipate, 1-celled, 
with the placentas at the base, from which the ovules arise by the 
intervention of umbilical cords. Styles 3, filiform, very long, arising 
from distinct points of the apex of the ovarium. Stigmas clavate. 
Fruit capsular, 1-cclled, 3-valved, membraneous more or less, many- 
seeded. Seeds attached by umbilical cords to placentas arising either 
from the axis of the valves, or from their base. Testa crustaceous, 
brittle, with a fleshy crest, and no arillus. Embryo round, in the 
centre of fleshy albumen, with the radical next the hylum.—(G. Don. 
GENUS I. 
MALESHERBIA, Ruiz et Pavon. THE MALESHERBIA. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —The same as that of the Order. 
1.—MALESHERBIA CORONATA, B. Don. THE CROWNED MALESHERBIA. 
Engravings. —Sweet’s Brit. Flow. Gard., 2nd Series, t. 167 ; and Leaves linear, sinuately toothed; throat of the calyx dilated ; crown 
ollr fig- 3, in Plate 15. simple, toothed. — (G. Don.) 
Specific Character. —Plant clothed with glandular pubescence. 
Description, &c.— A very singular and ornamental plant, a native of Chili at Valparaiso, raised from seeds 
brought over by Mr. Hugh Cuming, in 1832. The seeds are not common in the seed-shops, but they may be had 
from Mr. Charlwood, and at some other places. They should be sown in pots in light rich earth, in February or 
March, and placed in a hotbed ; and when they come up they should be transplanted several times into larger 
and larger pots, till the middle of May, or beginning of June, and then planted out into a rich, warm, and 
well-sheltered border, where, if allowed plenty of room, and occasionally watered, they will grow two feet or 
three feet high, and spread in proportion, flowering abundantly. 
2.—MALESHERBIA LINEARIFOLIA, Poir. THE LINEAR-LEAVED MALESHERBIA. 
Synonymes. — ? Gynopleura linearifolia, Cav. ? Malesherbia pani- 
culata, (D. Don.) 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3362 ; and our fig. 4, in Plate 15. 
Specific Character.— Clothed with glandular pubescence. Leaves 
linear, toothed, stipulated at the base. Stipules tripartite. Throat of 
the calyx dilated. Ovarium subglobose.— (Hook.) 
Description, &c.— A slender delicate plant, growing about a foot high, and bearing panicles of pale-blue 
flowers. It is a native of the Andes, whence seeds of it were brought by Mr. Hugh Cuming. It flowered, for 
the first time in Britain, in September 1834, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it was kept in the green¬ 
house. From the mountainous situation, however, which it occupies in its native country, it would probably 
succeed well if sown in May in the open ground in the neighbourhood of London. We do not know where seeds 
are to be procured. 
