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SrropiLantues Sapiniana. Mr. Sapine’s 
STROBILANTHES. ae 
SEEK EE EK EERE EK EEE EK 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—AcantHace. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis. Anthere 
erectz, loculis parallelis. Capsula in medio tetraspermaad — 
basin bilocularis v. brevissimo tantum spatio a basi clausa, 
‘tetragona. Retinacula in papillae formam contracta semina — 
ferentia nec fulcentia. Semina parva scrobiculata. Nees. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
SrropiLantuEs Sabiniana: herbacea (v. suffrutex), foliis 
ovatis acuminatis in petiolum attenuatis repando-sub- 
crenatis glabris, opposito minore, summis cordatis 
amplexicaulibus, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque 
laxiusculis viscido-pubescentibus, bracteis orbiculatis 
basi cuneiformibus. Nees. — ie 
SrropitantHeEs Sabiniana. Nees ab Esenb. in Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar. v. 3. p. 86. . 
RvELLIA “tg gp Wall. Cat. n. 2338. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
t. 1238. . 
Rueiia macrocarpa. Wall. Cat. n. 2348, ex parte. —- 
(8.) argentea, Nees; spicis minoribus maxime pubescenti- 
bus viscidisque, foliis minoribus. 
Rue argentea. Wall. Cat. n. 2339. 
A very beautiful stove plant, a native of Nepal, whence 
it was introduced to our gardens by Dr. Watttcu, who 
named it in compliment to Joszrn Sasine, Esq. to whom 
Horticulture, no less than Natural History in general, is most 
deeply 
