Ruellia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 45 
Filaments united by pairs near the base, Stigma entire, 
broad, glandular. Capsule club-shaped, with many compress- 
ed imbricated seeds in each cell, | 
7. R. cernua, Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect, polished. Leaves opposite, drooping, pe- 
tioled, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, # lowers axillary, sub- 
sessile. Bractes petioled. Capsule clavate, many-seeded. 
Moretiana. Rumph, Amb. iv. t. 23. f. 1. 
Reared in the Botanic garden at Calcutta from seed sent 
by Dr. Buchanan from Mysore, where the plant is indigen- 
ous, Flowering time in Bengal the rainy season. 
Root perennial. Stems in a cultivated state several, sub- 
ligneous, erect, round, smooth, swelled immediately above the 
joints. Branches opposite, alternately smaller, sub-erect, 
smooth, obscurely four-sided, the whole plant about three feet 
high. Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping, alternately smaller, 
ovate, lanceolate, slightly repand, long, taper, recurved, point- 
ed, smooth on both sides; size very various, the larger often 
from two to four inches long. Fowers axillary, from one to 
three, sub:sessile, small, pale pink, their insertions surrounded 
with some opposite pairs of small floral leaves and lance- 
olate petioled bractes, Calyx five-cleft.. Corol campanulate, 
lower lip larger and more deeply coloured, the other four. 
equal. Stigma clavate, curved. Capsule clavate, many- 
seeded, 4 
8. R. patula, Willd, iii, 364, 
Perennial. Leaves ovate, scollopped, downy ; peduncles 
axillary, three-flowered. Filaments united by pairs, from the 
middle downwards, Capsules clavate, many-seeded. It de- 
lights in rubbish, shady corners, &e. in the vicinity of Nega- 
_ patam. Flowers.during the cold season. . 
Root woody, perennial, Stems many, seunctianion a 
on the ground, rooting, and sometimes nearly erect, very ra- 
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