NAT. ORDER, 

 Ehexiece. 



RHEXIA GLUTmOSA. YELLOW-FLOWERED RHEXLL 



Class VIII. OcTANDRiA. Oiikr I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, lanceolate, four to five-cleft. Petioles, four in- 

 serted upon the calyx. 



Spe. Cliar. Stem, with winged angles, somewhat hairy. Leaves, 

 sessile, ovate-lanceolate, serrate-ciliate, sprinkled with appressed 

 hairs on both sides. 



The stem is erect, quadrangular, branched, and rises from one 

 to three feet in height ; the leaves are sessile, quite entire, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, or ovate, and three nerved ; the Jlowers are by threes, disposed 

 in cyniose corymb, and of a purple or yellow color ; the tube of the 

 calyx is ovate and veatricose at the base, but constricted at the neck, 

 or near the apex ; limb four-cleft and permanent ; the petals are four 

 in number, and obovate ; stameixs eight ; antliers not drawn out at 

 the base ; cadsules free in the bottom of the calyx, four-celled, with 

 lunate, pedicellate placentas ; seeds cochleale. 



This plant is a native of the warmer parts of Africa, and is 

 found growing in some parts of South America, but is very little 

 known in tliis country. Few specimens, however, have been inrro- 

 duced, and raised in our hot-houses, but will not thrive unless kept 

 about the same warmth that Orange trees require. It flowers from 

 July till September. 



Propagation and Culture. All the species of this genus are 

 very elegant and beautiful to the eye when in flower ; and if planted 

 in a bed of peat soil (which is the only soil in which they will 

 thrive), they will grow and increase abundantly ; and, if grown in 



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