Mahurea
(its native name). SYN. Bonnetia. ORD. Ternstraemiaceae. A small genus (four species) of South American stove evergreen trees. Flowers pink, disposed in narrow terminal panicles; sepals five, imbricated; petals five, contorted. Leaves alternate, often petiolate. Only one species has yet been introduced. It thrives in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam. Propagated, during summer, by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in gentle bottom heat.
M. palustris (marsh-loving). fl. purplish, terminal, racemose, hardly 1in. in diameter. May. l. oblong, coriaceous, entire, full of pellucid dots. h. 15ft. 1820.