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* RUSSÉLIA juncea. 
Rushy Russelia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEE, Juss. Trib. 5. DiciTALEA, Bentham. 
(Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, p. 228.) 
RUSSELIA, Jacq.— Corolla tubulosa recta limbo patente subbilabiata 
labio superiore emarginato vel bifido inferiore trifido laciniis omnibus subequalibus 
planis. Stamina fertilia 4, basi declinata apice adscendentia, sterile nullum. 
Anthere sub labio superiore approximate glabre biloculares loculis demum diva- 
ricatis confluentibus. Stylus simplex stigmate integro parum incrassato. Semina 
nuda. Frutices, ramis sepius pendulis glabris. Folia opposita dentata vel 
integra. Flores nunc in racemis cymisve axillaribus dense glomerati nunc 
laxe racemosi pedunculis elongatis subunifloris. Corolle sepius coccinee. 
Bentham MSS. 
R. juncea ; ramis tetragonis erectis junceis, foliis minimis petiolatis ovatis sub- 
integris, pedunculis filiformibus subbifloris. 
R. juncea. Zuccarini in litt. 
Caulis plante 3-pedalis erectus, angulatus, viridis, ramis onustus gra- 
cillimis, tetrayonis, pallide viridibus, junioribus subaphyllis, nutantibus. 
Folia sepe minima, semper parva, ramulis debilioribus majora, petiolata, 
ovata, acuta, subtiliter serrulato-ciliata, aliquando dente uno alterove munita. 
Inflorescentia. primo adspectu paniculata, sed revera e ramulis racemosim 
dispositis, gracilibus, distantibus constans, quorum apice insident flos unus 
duove pedicellati et cernui. Calyx parvus sepalis 5 ovatis acutis imbricanti- 
bus. Corolla tubulosa, coccinea, unciam longa, sursum dilatata, limbo sub- 
equaliter 5-fido; laciniis obtusis duabus superioribus magis approximatis. 
Stamina 4, didynama. Anthere glabre oblonge, apiculate, lobis parallelis. 
Stigma bilobum ; lobis oblongis planis. 
A very pretty Greenhouse or Stove plant found in 
Mexico (probably near Oaxaca), by Count Karwinski, and 
lately introduced to the gardens of this country from 
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* Named after Dr. Alexander Russel, an English Physician, who resided for 
some years at Aleppo, and published an account of his observations upon the 
Natural History of that place in the year 1756. 
