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RUELLIA macrophylla. 
Large-leaved Ruellia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACEE. (Acanruans, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 678. 
tned.) 
RUELLIA, L.—Calyz ad basim quinquepartitus, laciniis subaegualibus 
linearibus apice subdilatatis herbaceis, vel «equalibus acuminatis. Corolla 
infundibuliformis tubo in limbum anguste campanulatum quinquefidum con- 
tinue transeunte, laciniis zequalibus obtusis. Stamina quatuor, didynama, 
basi faucium inserta. Anthere oblonge, bilocellate, locellis parallelis con- 
tiguis sequalibus muticis vel basi mucronulatis. Stigma subulatum, spirale, 
dorso spongiolosum, caniculatum, basi denticulo auctum. Capsula angusta, 
quadrangularis, ad basim usque bilocularis, a basi ultra medium sex-octo- 
sperma. Dissepimentum completum, adnatum. Semina retinaculis medio- 
cribus suffulta.— Inflorescentia :—spice, plerumque in capitulorum formam 
contracte, foliaceo-bracteate ideoque rudes et parum conspicue. Bracteole 
nulle vel anguste. Flores mediocres. Plereque herbace sunt et hirsute. 
Nees v. Esenbeek in Wallich’s Plante Asiatice rariores, 3. 82. 
R. macrophylla ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis pubescentibus, floribus 
dichotomě paniculatis, bracteis linearibus ramulis subeequalibus, brac- 
teolis squameeformibus, corolla bilabiatà laciniis ovalibus obtusis supre- 
mis approximatis ceteris zquidistantibus, staminibus exsertis. 
R. macrophylla Vahl Symbole, 2. 72. t. 39. 
Herba R. formoss similis sed floribus paniculatis foliis majoribus ceterisque 
characteribus diversissima. 
This fine herbaceous plant is a native of Santa Martha, 
according to Vahl who first described it. His figure, how. 
ever, was taken from a starved wild specimen, and gives no 
idea of the beauty of the species in the hands of English 
gardeners. He supposed that it habitually produced two 
flowers on a stalk, while in fact it bears large branching 
forked panicles, loaded with flowers of glowing scarlet, and 
nearly three inches long. 
In that state it was exhibited at a meeting of the Horti- 
cultural Society in October last, by Mr. Carton, gardener to 
his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and it was indeed 
worthy of the noble collection which furnished it. 
February, 1846. D 
