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Ruellia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 43 
equal and roundish. .Anthers twin, Capsule linear, oblong, 
many-seeded. ° 
Found by Dr. Hunter, and Mr. Roxburgh in Palo Pinang, 
under the shade of trees, in flower in June. 
_ 4, R. comosa, Roxb. 
Shrubby, ramifications crowded, very hairy. Leaves 
oyate-oblong, serrate, cuspidate, one much larger. Spikes 
axillary, imbricate, with decussate, ciliate, cuneiform bractes. 
Calyx two-cleft. Corol obliquely campanulate. 
_ A native of the Molucca Islands, from thence introduced 
into. the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where in seven years 
the plants grew into large, very ramous, high, spreading 
bushes, and then blossomed for een 
season. 
Trunk scarcely any. Branches numerous, much divided, 
crowded, spreading in every direction, Young shoots round, 
hairy, and swelled at the joints, Leaves opposite, long- 
petioled, one of the pairs much smaller, ovate, oblong, ser- 
rate, cuspidate, very hairy, length of the largest about five’ 
inches by two and a half, and its companion scarcely half 
the size. Spikes axillary, solitary, whist-polinarlad; scarcely 
so long as the petioles, imbricated with decu , ciliate, cu- 
neiform, cuspidate bractes, those of the calyx opposite, similar eS 
in shape, but much smaller. Flowers large, purple. Calyx 
deeply .two-cleft, very hairy ; the wpper segment three-tooth- 
ed; the wnder one two-toothed. Corol of an oblique, narrow, 
campanulate form, with its border divided into five, short, 
broad, emarginate, nearly equal, somewhat crenulate seg- 
ments. - Sie eae four-seeded. 
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nic R, nde: Roxb. : 
eis smooth, petioled, bles aioe tapixingit ! 
| mosiatithe-hese, sub-entire. Teenmeete  lowereite 
mpanulate, sub-equal, — - Leadon 
| pretty, eel ebenb: vn in flower, found by dhe 
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