Ruellia. |  DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, AZ 
from six to twelve inches long. Leaves opposite, short-petiol- 
ed, broad, oval, serrate or notched, hairy, about an inch long, 
and three quarters of an inch broad, Flowers axillary, so- 
litary, sessile, light blye, they are also collected in small, 
terminal, bracted heads, of from four to six flowers each. 
Corol ; tube twice the length of the calyx, contracted about 
the middle, Capsule lanceolate, many-seeded, ; 
IL. R. flagelli formis, 
Herbaceous. Shoots diffuse, Radical leaves petioled, 
oblong, and obtuse; cazline remote, sub-sessile, and nearly 
round, Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile, Anthers twin. 
Capsule linear, many-seeded, _ 
A native of the Moluccas. 
12. R. Pavala. Roxb, 
Suffrutex, very ramous, diffuse. Leaves ovate, pointed, 
serrate. Spikelets axillary, and terminal, sub-sessile._ Corol 
with a regular, five-parted border, 
Teling. Pavala. , 
This plant i is in general so like R. fasciculata, the flowers 
excepted, that our description, gens od that of the — 
may serve for both. 
It is a native of the same places, and flowers ; during” the 
cold season. ati 
Spikelets terminal, and axillary, sub-sessile, oblong. Brac- 
tes opposite, oblong, downy, margins slightly fringed with 
hairs, one-flowered. Flowers small, bright, but deep blue. 
Corel; tube curved, widening from the’ base to the my in 
the last it is gibbous, &e. divisions of the border equal ; 
the last it is grinning. ; 
The plant has a strong disagreeable smell. 
13. R. bracteata. Réwd. 
_ Shrubby, straight. Leaves ovate, pointed, serrate. Flow- 
_ ers a oe or _theennie,  Bractes cordate, scl: 
