Cxuass VIIT.—OCTANDRIA. 
OrpEer I.—MONOGYNIA. 
+ Germ inferior. 
359. RAIEXIA. L 
Calix cicaddatn; 4 to 5-cleft. Petals 4, ea 
inserted upon the calix. Anthers declinate. Cap- 
Sule setigerous, 4-celled, included in the ventri- 
cose calix. Receptacles subulate. Seeds nume- 
rous, (Stamina sometimes 10.) _ 
_ Annual or perennial, rarely sufiruticose; stems mosily 
quadrangular; leaves ay. ened , pn puce A nerved, 
opposite; flowers by 3s, often 
trichotomously compounded and aah en  glo- 
et eae rarely, if ever, axillary, by defection sometimes 
rarely a 
very long and curved, at first deflected and equally ar- 
ranged round the tube of the calix, 1-celled, adnate to 
the filaments, emitting the pollen by a single clandes- 
_ tine pore, situated at the junction with the filament, the 
ae by a single seta. Seeds subreniform and 
an 
Pectes. 1. R. mariana. Stem subterete, hirsute. - hos 
2. sa gees Stem with alated ain en Sgt 
ciliosa, Stem subquadrangular, small, sub- 
petiolate, oval-acute, beneath ay eumantond Oo 
™argin conspicuously ciliated; flowers 
sessile, involucrate, anthers short; calix acute, tating 
bene , smooth. Pursh, FI. Am. 1. t. 10. = 
imperfect keds Ee Cans 4. 
1 tenvuldse: temqundnetgu lar, smooth; leaves small, 
very large, growing by 3s; calix glandularl Sireube. hore 
an ded aes. Has. In the Bp sof 
Georgia and Porida, communicate ome by De Baldy» 
—- it as a dwarf variety of the 
