Ruellia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 49 
Racemes secund, _Bractes solitary, reniform, ciliate, many- 
flowered ; wpper segments of the calyx very hard, lanceolate, 
_ Found wild in shady places in the vicinity of the Botanic 
garden near Calcutta, It blossoms during the cold season, 
and its seed ripens in March. 
Stem scarcely any, but numerous, sub-opposite, jointed, 
weak, straggling branches, often resting on the ground, and 
in that case roots issue from the joints. Leaves opposite, 
long-petioled, one of the pair always considerably smaller, 
obliquely ovate-oblong, taper-pointed, crenulate-serrate, to- 
lerably smooth on both sides; size very various. Racemes 
axillary, and terminal, short, secund. The reniform bractes, 
with their flowers occupy the outside, while on the insideare 
just as many, opposite pairs, of very unequal (sized) floral 
leaves; in the axills of the largest of these, the alternate, re- 
niform bractes with their flowers are inserted. Bractes axil- 
lary, solitary, short-peduncled, reniform, clothed with long, 
soft, glutinous hairs, each embracing from two to six, or more 
small, white flowers. Calya: five-cleft ; upper division large, 
rather longer than the bractes, broad-lanceolate, the inferior 
four subulate, all are hairy, and clammy, like the bractes. Co- 
rol bilabiate ; the upper lip pigs: the node; one isnt. tp 
sule Revsindids bade i lies oisiticstis 
16, R, dependens, Roxb. stnthiDy ari 
Suffruticose, erect, yery ramous. Leaves hanging, broad- 
lanceolate, serrulate. Spikes terminal, sessile, crowded, se- 
cund, imbricated. Bractes lanceolate, ciliate. 
A native of Mysore. Flowering time, the rainy season. 
Stem, scarcely any thing like one, but numerous straight 
‘branches. with alternate, erect, somewhat four-angled, co- 
loured, smooth branchlets ; the height of the whole plantabout 
two feet, Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping, alternately © 
smaller, broad-lanceolate, margins entire, most slightly vil- 
lous underneath, from one to four inches sii : etioles ith © 
a continuation of “ry various in leng' 
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