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like mufk. The flower Jlalks are axillary, and 

 each bears feveral flowers. 



Gerard 'la glutinofa. [Tab. ix.] 



Ruellia ringens grew every where in the 

 water on the fhore, and was above half a yard 

 high. It diftinguifhes itfelf from the Ruellia 

 antipoda, which generally grows along with 

 it, in the following particulars: the calyx is 

 monophyllous, cylindrical, quinquefid, with 

 fmall lanceolated fegments. The corolla is 

 monopetalous, ringent: the tube cylindrical: 

 the faux inflated ; the opening bifid : the upper 

 lip bifid, and reflected: the lower deflected, 

 trifid, dotted in the iiifide (like the corolla of 

 the Scutellaria') ; the four ft laments, of which 

 the two lowed are the lead, hang on the 

 lower lip : the anthenz are fagittated, and 

 erected : the gertnen is oblong : the Jlyhts is 

 filiform, longer than the filaments, and bent 

 near the top : the fligma is undivided, and 

 pointed : the capfule is oblong, narrow, trilo- 

 culare and contains only eight fiat feeds. The 

 root is big, and repent : xhcjlalk round, erect- 

 ed, fimple : the leaves are oppofite, petiolated, 

 lanceolated^ fmooth, and fomewhat carnofe. 



Cyperus 



