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RUELLIA* Sabiniána. 
Mr. Sabine's Ruellia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACEX. 
RUELLIA.— Supra, vol. 7. fol. 585. 
R. Sabiniana ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis denticulatis glabris subtús discoloribus, 
bracteis cuneatis glandulosis retusis corollis ventricosis 4-plò brevioribus. 
R. Sabiniana. Wallich MSS. 
Caulis suffruticosus, 2-3 pedalis, ramosus, geniculatus, quadr atus, ad 
nodos tumidus, subpurpureus. Folia subsessilia, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, 
denticulata, glabra, subtüs discolora. Spice terminales et axillares, multi- 
. flore, semipedales. Bracteæ foliacez, persistentes, cuneate, retuse, glandu- 
lose, purpurascentes. Flores solitarii. Calyx 5-fidus, basi à tergo bi-brac- 
teolatus, laciniis subequalibus, foliaceis, purpurascentibus, glandulosis, tubo 
brevi pallido, subeglanduloso. Corolle magne, lilacine, ventricose, venose, 
bracteis quadruplò longiores. 
This extremely beautiful flower, which will probably 
become one of the choicest ornaments of our Hothouses, 
has been named by Dr. Wallich in compliment *o Joseph 
Sabine, Esq., F.R.S., &c. &c., the indefatigable Secretary 
of the Horticultural Society. It is a native of the Pundica 
Mountains, bordering on the district of Sylhet, whence it 
was introduced to the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, in 1824; 
but up to 1828 it had not flowered there. 
The leaves when young are of a deep purple on their 
* Jean Ruelle, after whom this genus has been named, was a French 
Botanist, born at Soissons in 1474, and died in 1537. He was at one time 
physician to Francis L, but afterwards abandoned medicine, and beste» 
priest. In 1529, he published a good translation of Dioscorides; as in 
1536, a work, De Naturá Stirpium, which is chiefly remarkable as the first 
attempt to reduce into order the nomenclature of Botany ; it was, in fact, m. 
first introduction to Botany: that by Fuchsius, his contemporary, to his 
Historia Stirpium, in 1542, was the second. 
