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RHEXIA versicolor. 
Changeable-flowered Rhexia. 
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OCTANDRIA .MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. MELASTOMACER. 
RHEXIA L.— Calyx tubulosus, basi demúm amplians, ventricosus, 
apice in collo angustatus : limbo urceolato, 4-fido, persistente. Petala 4, 
ore, calycis insidentia, laté obovata. Stamina 8; filamenta longa, erecta, 
compressa, sequalia, in ore calycis intra petala inserta, inarticulata; anthere 
lineares, declinatee, obtusee, absque rostro, sequales, apice foramine hiantes, 
infra dorso nec basi filamenta insidentes, basi non constricte. Ovarium in 
ventre calycis, liberum. Stylus rectus, teres, staminibus brevior. Stigma 
parvum, subcapitatum, tenuissimé barbatum. Capsula globosa, in ventre 
calycis inclusa, libera, 4-locularis, 4-valvis; valvulis rimà oblonga, singulä 
in medio loculi hiante. Placente 4, baccatæ, pedicello brevi, plano, ad axin 
centralem adnato suffultæ, compresse, valdé scrobiculate, in medio loculi 
centrales, seminibus creberrime et imbricatim tectee. Semina 00, reni- 
formia, punctata, umbilico amplo concavo terminata; testa simplex, cras- 
siuscula, crustacea, fragilis; albumen nullum. Embryo teres, curvatus, 
lacteus ; cotyledones breves, semicylindricee; radicula curvata, centripeta, 
cotyledonibus duplo longior. Don..Melastom. p. 22. 
R. versicolor ; undique pilosa, foliis ovato-oblongis serrulatis 5-nerviis subtüs 
discoloribus, floribus terminalibus solitariis foliis brevioribus, capsulá 
ovata apice pilosa. : 
Caulis suffruticosus, ramosus, dens? pilosus. Folia 5-nervia, ovato- 
oblonga, petiolata, serrulata, utrinque pilosa, subtús sanguinea. Flores albi, 
demüm rubescentes, solitarii, terminales, foliis involucrantibus multà breviores. 
Calyx ovatus, pilosus, limbo 4-partito, laciniis spatulatis apice serratis. 
Petala 4, unguiculata, obtusa, ciliata. Stamina 8, sub-equalia, dechnata. 
Anthere innate, lineares, basi truncate, apice dehiscentes, estivatione 
inflece. Capsula semisupera, libera, ovata, calyce persistente inclusa, apice 
pilosa, ad. cicatricem styli truncata, membranacea, 4-locularis, placentis 
spongiosis, axi affixis. Semina numerosa, reniformia, tuberculata, testá 
crustaced fragili, hilo magno excavato. 
This beautiful little plant is a native of St. Catharine's, on the 
coast of Brazil, where seeds were collected by Mr. James M‘Rae, for 
„the Horticultural Society, in 1825. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, 
during all the summer covered with a profusion of delicate white 
flowers, changing to pink after having been a short time expanded, 
