Volume 8 — PLATE DXXVII.

RUELLIA FULGIDA.

Bright-flowered Ruellia.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla monopetala, limbo 5-lobo, inæquali. Stamina biconjugata. Stylus filiformis. Stigma bifidum. Capsula dissepimentis dentatis, elasticis, dehiscentibus. Semina pauca.

Empalement 5-parted. Blossom one petal: border 5-lobed, unequal. Chives by pairs. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit two-cleft. Capsule with the partitions toothed, elastic, and splitting. Seeds few.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ruellia foliis petiolatis, ovato-acuminatis, undulatis, pilosis, crenatis: pedunculis axillaribus, cum multis floribus tubæformibus.

Ruellia with petiolated leaves ovately pointed, waved, hairy, and scolloped. Footstalks axillary, with many long trumpet-shaped flowers.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This new and beautiful species of Ruellia was introduced by Lord Seaforth from the West Indies, and flowered in Mr. Lambert’s stove at Boyton, in June 1807, for the first time in England; and continued, as he informs us, to flower during the greatest part of the summer, ripening its seeds in abundance, and being easily propagated by cuttings.