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RUELLIA FORMOSA. SPLENDID RUELLIA. 
FIs 
Clafs and Order. 
- DIpD¥NAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Charadfer. 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. fubeampanulata. Stamina per paria 
approximata. Cap/- dentibus elalticis diffiliens. 
Specific Charaffer and Synonyms. 
RUELLIA /formofa ; foliis petiolatis integerrimis ovatis utrin- 
que pubefcentibus, pedunculis axillaribus alternis 
longiffimis paucifloris, corollis fubringentibus. 
RUELLIA /ormofa ; caule fuffruticofo ere&o; foliis pilofis, 
petiolatis, integerrimis, ovatis, obtufis; pedunculis 
lateralibus foliis duplo feu triplo longioribus, ra- 
mofis ramulis fubtrifloris, Bot. Repo/. 610. 
Descr. Stem ere&, obtufe-angled, hairy. Leaves oppofite 
ovate, more or lefs pointed, rounded at the bafe, covered with 
fhort hairs on both fides: footftalks not half the length of the 
leaf. Peduncles axillary, alternate, ftraight, two or three times 
longer than the leaf, fomewhat branched at the extremity. 
Braées \inear-lanceolate, falling before the flower is expanded. 
Calyx five-cleft, linear-lanceolate, ere&t. Corolla fhewy, fine 
fearlet : Zuée an inch and half long, curved, expanding upwards 
and fomewhat compreffed, a little hairy on the outfide: limé 
fmooth, divided into five, nearly equal lacini, bilabiately 
arranged ; the two upper ones conjoined half-way up, all of 
them refle€ted at the fides, but efpecially the lateral ones. 
Filaments proje&ting a little beyond the tube = anthers fagittate, 
ag Style fomewhat longer than ftamens : /ligma unequally 
ifid. 
_ This fpecies comes very near to the macrophylla of Vaut, 
and appears to be the fame as the fpecimen preferved under 
that 
