Maurandya
(named after Dr. Maurandy, once Professor of Botany at Carthagena). Including Lophospermum and Usteria (of Cavanilles). ORD. Scrophularineae. A small genus (six species) of greenhouse, glabrous or pubescent herbs, confined to Mexico. Flowers violet, purple, or rose, showy; pedicels axillary, ebracteate; calyx five-parted; corolla tube spurred at base; lip spreading. Leaves alternate, or the lower ones opposite, hastate, angularly lobed or thickly toothed. M. Barclayana is one of the best-known species; it should be treated as an annual, for summer flowering outside. M. erubescens and M. scandens are well suited for a trellis or dwarf wall, outside, in a warm situation. All the species succeed in any moderately rich sandy loam. Propagated by seeds, which should be sown, in early spring, on a slight hotbed, and the seedlings grown on prior to being planted in greenhouses, or warm positions outside, in May, or June; also by cuttings of young shoots, inserted, in August, under a shaded hand glass.
M. atrosanguineum (dark bloody). fl. dark purple; corolla funnel-shaped, clothed with white glandular hairs; throat cylindrical. Summer. l. cordate, acuminated, coarsely and dentately serrated. 1832. Plant clothed with shining, jointed hairs. (B. R. 1755.) M. Barclayana (Barclay's).* fl., corolla 1 1/2in. to 2in. long; tube downy, greenish, curved; lobes ovate-roundish, emarginate, of a violet-purple colour. Summer. l. cordate, acuminated; young ones somewhat hastate; lower and middle ones obscurely five-lobed. 1825. (B. R. 1108; L. B. C. 1381.) M. erubescens (blushing). fl. large, rose-coloured, beset with capitate hairs; tube whitish beneath, marbled in various ways inside. Summer and autumn. l. cordate, five-lobed, downy; lobes mucronate, crenated, or deeply serrated. Branches clothed with articulated, short, viscid hairs. 1830. (B. v. 242; B. M. 3037, 3033; B. R. 1381, under name of Lophospermum erubescens.) M. Hendersoni (Henderson's). Probably a variety of M. scandens. M. scandens (climbing).* fl. purplish-violet, glabrous. Summer. l. cordate, acuminated, deeply serrated, hairy. 1834. See Fig. 527. SYNS. Lophospermum scandens (B. i. 17; B. M. 3650; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 401) and Usteria scandens (A. B. R. 63). M. Hendersoni, with violet-purple flowers, striped or spotted with white, is probably a variety of this species.
M. semperflorens (ever-flowering). fl., corolla pale violet or reddish, 1 1/2in. long, with emarginate lobes; tube variously furrowed; filaments rather villous at base; calyx segments lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. l. mostly cordate-hastate. 1796. (B. M. 460.)