Refugium Botanicum.| [dugust, 1868. 
TAB, 26, 
Natural Order STERCULIACES. 
Genus Maunernia, Linn. 
M. curysantua (Planchon in Herb. Hook.) Caulibus decumbentibus 
griseo-pubescentibus, stipulis profunde incisis, foliis breviter petio- 
latis cordato-oblongis obtusis crenulatis sursum rugosis demum sub- 
glabris deorsum dense griseo-lanosis, pedunculis elongatis plerisque 
bifloris, calycibus turbinatis dense griseo-vestitis dentibus deltoideis 
tubo equantibus, petalis obovato-spathulatis calyce multo excedenti- 
bus. — Turez. Mose. Bull. 1858, p. 219. Harv. Fl. Cap. vol. 1. p. 
218. 
A native of Cape Colony. 
A low shrub, with slender, woody, prostrate stems, densely 
clothed with spreading gray woolly hairs. Stipules and bracts 
often cut more than half-way down into linear teeth. Petioles 
spreading, alternate, a quarter to half an inch long, firm, clothed 
like the stems. Leaves oblong or rather ovate, an inch and a 
half to three inches long, an inch to an inch and a half or more 
broad, blunt, the base cordate, the edge crenulate, the texture 
thick but pliable, the upper surface dull green and corrugated 
like a sage-leaf, slightly downy at first, but becoming naked; the 
under surface densely matted with gray woolly down, lke that of 
the stems. J lowers on peduncles one to two inches long, from 
the axils of the leaves, usually two together ; the pedicels cernuous. 
Calyx turbinate, half an inch deep, densely gray-woolly like the 
rest of the plant, with deltoid teeth which reach about half 
down. Petals half as long again as the calyx, obovate-spathulate, 
pubescent, in our specimens pure white. Ovary obovate, densely 
tomentose.—J. G. B. 
This plant was reared from seeds sent from South Africa by 
Mr. Thos. Cooper. It requires greenhouse treatment in winter, 
but is admirably adapted for decorating rock-work in the open 
air in the summer time. It will thrive well on lght sandy loam 
or any good garden soil. It flowers freely, and produces a very 
pretty effect when allowed to spread at its pleasure.—W. W. S. 
