44 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A. Ruellia. 



Rev. Mr. F. Carey in the vicinity of Rangoon in Pegue, 

 where it is called Pretchee. Branchlets straight, smooth, and 

 in the dry specimens tending to ])e four-sided. Leaves op- 

 posite, petioled, oblong, ventricose, margins rather uneven, 

 smooth on both sides, six inches long". Spikes terminal, 

 crowded with bractes, and larger, yellow, opposite, sessile 

 flowers. Rachis four-sided and smooth. Bractes a lanceolate 

 one under each flower and two smaller ensiform ones pressing- 

 on the sides of the calyx and longer than its segments. Calyx 

 five-parted. Segments ensiform. CoroZ irregularly narrow, 

 campanulate. Border of five nearly equal, semicircular lobes. 

 Filaments the longer pair most ciliate on the outside. An- 

 thers linear, and the opposite pairs firmly united. Germ ob- 

 long'. Stigma of two very unequal lobes. 



6. R. ring ens. 



Perennial, creeping- or climbing. Leaves oblong, ventri- 

 cose, hairy. Fbrniers axillary, short-peduncled. Floral 

 leaves longer than the calyx. Capsule clavate. Seeds im- 

 bricated. 



Upu dali. Rheed. Mai. ix. t. 64. has the divisions of the 

 border of the corol too long and too sharp for my plant. 



Is common in thickets, &c. over most part of India, and is 

 in blossom the greatest part of the year. Compare with Vahl's 

 R. pallida. Symh. ii. 72. 



Stems or branches diflfuse, climbing or creeping just as 

 they meet with support, woody. Young shoots erect, some- 

 what four-sided, and hairy. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 ovate, oblong, entire or slightly scoUopped, pale green and 

 hairy on both sides. Flowers axillary, solitary, short-pedun- 

 cled, large ; colour, a beautiful pale blue, they expand in the 

 evening and droop in the morning. Floral leaves, (bractes,) 

 like the other leaves, but smaller, one on each side of the 

 middle of the peduncle, from their axills other flowers often 

 succeed. Calyx with very long, blender, bristle like, hairy 

 divisions. Corol bell-shaped, almost regularly five-parted. 



