ROELLA ? 
ELEGANS. 
一 -一 一 一 -< 
Campanulacee $ Wahlenbergieæ. -一 Pentandria-Monogynia. 
CHARACT. GB. — R. Calycis 5-fidi tubo 
eylindraceo rarius رس جرب ل‎ oni Corolla 
infundibuliformis tubulos campanulata eden 
oba. Stamina 5, at ieee liberis. Ov 
ويد‎ hs Stigmata 2 crassa. Capsula 
ilocularis omnino infera, bast st 
RAS perforata diu quasi operculo tecta , dem 
foramine ec sine valvis Kee? eo Sewina 
numerosa angulosa scabra 
Suffrutices v. rarius herbæ rigi ge omnes capen- 
ses perennes. Folia alterna ehren sparsa sepius 
angusta rigida cum azillaribus fruits 
Flores sessiles terı les v. ra rius glomerati inflo- 
rescentia eege 
DC. fil. Prodr. VII. 2e p. 445, 
Roella L. Hort. Cliff. 492. t. 16. f. 5. Juss. Gen. 165. ۰ 
ume o we 1. f. 3. Lg. Illust. 346. t. 123. Gess. Phyt. 
105. . f. 202. Arrn. DC. Monog. Camp. 172. 一 Aculeosa 
Des. Alm. 8. t, 252 
pec. Sera Thes. I, 25, 
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flexis; florib emos axillares capitatos bre- 
vissimos dispositis oppositis in axilla bractearu rum de- 
calyce 
infero een tubo 5-gono, laciniis linearibus, 
elongatis qua alibu s; corollae tubo hypogyno cur- 
vto pce Men E limbo cæruleo ; staminibus 4 didy- 
mis, filamentis longioribus tubo adnatis apice libe- 
ris s pilosis, eis liberis brevissimis illis oppositis 
cylindricum, eo 
at R mds Ge formi pubescente, stigmatibus 
linearibus revolutis. Fructus?... ose 
Roella ? elegans Nos 
Roella elegans Paxron’s Mag. of Bot. VI. 27. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
ROELLA ELEGANS. 
ELEGANT ROELLA. 
Eryuotocy. W. Roell, 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
SYNONYMY 
a professor of anatomy, at Amsterdam, contemporary of Linnœus. 
| see above. 
In no subject that we have before had the satisfaction to figure, do we remember to have seen 
so much real elegance and simple beauty. Whether in the general contour of the plant, the precise 
and pleasing conformation of its parts, or the attractive ees of its pretty blossoms, it is a truly 
br m een and forms an exceedingly orna 
The e few 
mental fea 
ure in the stove. 
of the characters of a plant which exercise so great an influence over the popular 
ei as the hue of the flow 
may, however, 
ey are fascinated wit 
attracted to it about two years si 
wers. Almost every admirer of these, the most attractive of natural 
roductions, evinces some partiality to a EE tint ; 
but der this predilection may be as 
there vidently a es and prevailing 
no doubt be traced to the associations with which we are wont to connect all co- 
lours， Bos brilliant and intense blue of the blossoms 
pleasure and admiration in the beholder. 
e of this species in the estimation of our readers, if 
of this interesting plant cannot fail to inspire 
like us, 
ung, Epsom; and notwithstanding 
our subsequent visits to that hat have qu ment, 1 we scarcely remember an occasion 
ast o 
on which at le ne or more specimens were 
Our figure represents only a single branch, Gë fm y. BEEN exceeds nine or ten inches in 
height, and forms a peculiarly neat and symmetrical object. Although its habit appears to be her- 
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