Ruellia. didvnamia angiospermia. 49 



Racemes secund. Bractes solitary, reniform, ciliate, many- 

 floweied ; upper 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 tlowers occupy the outside, while on the inside are 

 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. Brac^e^ axil- 

 lary, solitary, short-peduncled, reniform, clothed with long, 

 soft, glutinous hairs, each embracing from two to six, or more 

 small, white flowers. Calij.v 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 bifid, the under one trifid. Cap- 

 side four-seeded. 



IG. R. clependens. Roxb, 



Suftruticose, erect, very ramous. Leaves hanging, broad- 

 lanceolate, serrulate. Spikes terminal, sessile, cro^vded, 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 long. Petioles with 

 a continuation of the base of the leaf, very various in length, 



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