Tas. 4363. 
GOLDFUSSIA ISOPHYLLA. 
LEqual-leaved Goldfussia. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE®.—DImpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char, Cal, 5-partitus, subequalis. Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo quinque- 
fido obtuso equali. Stamina inclusa, didynama, humiliora spe brevissima 
reflexa. Anthere nutantes; loculi in connectivo uncinato glanduloso obliqui, 
ovati, membranacei. Stigma simplex, subulatum, altero latere crenatum, irri- 
tabile. Capsula sexangularis, bivalvis, a dissepimento facile solubilis, loculis 
infernis dispermis. Semina discoidea, retinaculis subtensa.—Frutices Indie 
orientalis, foliis serratis penninervibus curvinervibus, nervis omnibus apicem patenti- 
bus, nec vero attingentibus. Flores pauci in capitulo bibracteolati, bracteis deci- 
duis, rarius spicati ; spica post delapsas bracteas magis elongata. Capitula pedun- 
culata, pedunculo simplici v. diviso. Nees. 
GoLpFussIA isophylla; foliis lanceolatis zqualibus remote serrulatis septupli- 
nerviis. Nees. 
Gotprvssta isophylla. Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. v. 3. p. 88; in De Cand. 
Prodr, v.11. p. 176. 
Ruewira, Wall. Cat, n. 7162. 
A species in many respects allied to the well-known Goldfussia 
anisophylla (Bot. Mag. t.3404), but at once distinguished, as 
the name implies, by the pairs of leaves being alike; whereas in 
the last mentioned species there is a singular disparity, for, 
while one of each pair is larger and broader than any of G. iso- 
phylla, the other and opposite one is reduced to a subulate scale. 
The flowers here, too, though rather smaller, are more copious, 
and the plant being bushy, its numerous blue flowers render it 
a most desirable inmate of a stove during winter, the season of 
blossoming. It is a native of the East Indies, and was intro- 
duced by Dr. Wallich. : 
Dezscr. A low bushy shrub, two or three feet high, copiously 
branched and spreading: branches acutely tetragonal, slightly 
swollen at the joints. Zeaves opposite, glabrous, on short 
petioles, spreading, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, remotely denti- 
culato-serrate, with about six principal, lateral, oblique nerves, 
besides the costa, which, I presume, is what Nees von Esenbeck 
APRIL Ist, 1848. E 
