Ruellia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Al 
Obs. Dr. Konig’s bractes are my exterior leaflets of the 
calyx, but his flores terminales 1 cannot account for, and — 
there is no mistake in the plant, for I was with him when he 
_ discovered and first described it. It looks well while young, 
but afterwards it has rather a scraggy appearance; I have 
had it in my garden many years, 
RUELLIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1050. 
Calyx five-parted, Corol somewhat campanulate, by pairs. 
Capsule two-celled, two-valved, bursting with elasticity con- 
trary to the Sssee38 
1. R. infundibuliformis, Rowb. trast sedi erence: 03 <a 
Shrubby. Leaves oblong, four-fold. Spikes four-sided. 
Bractes three-fold. Calya five-leaved. Corol with unilateral 
border ; seeds scaly. 
_ Justicia infundibuliformis, Willd, i. 99. 
Manja Kurini. Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 62. 
A pretty large, erect, ramous shrub ; commonly found onk 
tivated in the Pagoda gardens, sahite it flowers all the year 
round. Leaves four-fold and staid at the joints of the 
branchlets, spreading, petioled, oblong, pointed, waved, run- 
ning down the petiole, slightly pubescent, about two or 
three inches long, and one and a half broad. _ Petioles chan- 
nelled, about an inch long, Spikes axillary, erect, long-pe- 
dancled, four-sided ; angles sharp, from the sharp points of — 
the bractes always ending there. Bractes oblong, jointed, 
keeled, ciliate, one-flowered. Bractioles two, subulate, plac- 
ed on each side of the calyx. Flowers numerous, pretty 
large, of a bright orange colour. Calyz five-leaved, the three 
exterior largest. Corol ; tube filiform, curved like the letter 
$3 border irregularly five-cleft. Filaments four, short, curv- 
— wf them shorter, Anthers seer within Be tube. 
