RUPPELLIA. 



RUT A. 



Penman Ccck-of-thc.Rock (Rupieola Fertiriana'}. 



Calyptomena (Raffles) ; Rupieola (Temminck). Bill depressed and 

 wide at the base, curved or hooked at the point, and nearly bidden by 

 the feathers of the erect and compressed crest. Wings large and very 

 broad, first quill shortest, third longest, lesser quills notched at their 

 tips. Tail and feet very short, hind too as long as the tarsus, outer 

 and middle toe connected up to the second joint. 



C. viridii (Raffles). This very singular and beautiful bird is about 

 64 inches in length. Its colour is a brilliant green, like that of the 

 parrot*. It is the Burong Tampo Finang of the Malays. It is a 

 native of Singapore and the interior of Sumatra. 



Sir Stamford Raffles states that this species is found in the retired 

 parts of forests, and as it is of the colour of the leaves, and perches 

 high, it is not easily procured. He further tells us that the stomach 

 contained nothing but vegetable substance*, chiefly wild grains. 



Dr. Horsfield observes that the bill greatly resembles that of the 

 genera Jtupicola, I'ipra, J'hibalura, Pardalottu, Plalyrhynchut, and 

 Procnitu. 





Oilfptomrna riridii. 



RUPPE'LLIA (Milne-Edward.), a genus of Cnatacea belonging to 

 the family Caneerida (Canceriena Arqucs), established on the Cancer 

 tenor of the German zoologist and traveller Ruppell, and considered 

 by M. Milne-Kdwardi a* the type of the small group which leads to 

 thn genera Oiitu and Eripkia. 



Th>> form of the carapace approximate* closely to that of Xantho 

 and rfciw ; dorsal buckler slightly curved, and about once and a half 

 as wide a* It is long ; the orbit* are nearly circular, and are directed 



upwards and forwards. The internal antenna) bend back directly 

 outwards, as in A'nnMo, &c. 



R. tenor, Cancer tenas, Riippell, has the upper border of the orbit 

 marked by two fissures separated by a small tooth ; there is a fissure 

 at it* external angle, and two teeth at its lower borders. Length 

 about two inches. It is a native of the Bed Sea. 



a, abdomen of male ; b, abdomen of female ; c, pedipalps. 



RU'PPIA, a genus of Plants belonging to the natural order Junra- 

 ginaccce. This genus was named by Linnaeus after Henry Kuppius of 

 Cliessen, an active botanist, and author of ' Flora JancnsU.' 



R. maritima, Sea Ruppia, is found in salt-water pools and ditches ; 

 it has a slender filiform leafy stem, with linear leaves, which are fur- 

 nished with sheaths sometimes narrow and small, at other times 

 inflated. Its flowers, which are two in number and green, are seated 

 one above another on opposite sides of a short spadix, which is included 

 in a sheath orspathe; it has large sessile anthers 1-celled; the ovaries 

 are four minute grains seated in the centre between the stamens, 

 which are sessile and two in number. When the plant has flowered 

 the spadix lengthens to the height of five or six inches or more, and 

 becomes spirally twisted, as if to bring the fruit to the level of the 

 water, in which the flowers are always immersed. After this the 

 ovaries begin to swell, and their base is elongated into a footstalk, as 

 the fruit ripens, one or two inches long. When the fruit is perfectly 

 ripe it becomes an ovate acuminated drupe. It is a native of Great 

 Britain. 



R. t-otteUata has the cells of the anthers nearly round. The whole 

 plant is very slender ; the leaves rather filiform than linear; sheaths 

 small and close ; nut obliquely ascending. It is found in salt marshc.i 

 in Great Britain. 



(Babington, Manual of Britith Botany.) 



RUSCUS, a genus of 1 'hints belonging to the natural order 

 J.iliacea, known by the common name of Butcher's Broom. The 

 npecies of this genus are evergreen, aud on this account are fre- 

 quently introduced for undergrowth in shrubberies. The genus is 

 known by its dioecious flowers, of which the barren flowers have a 

 perianth of 6 single leaves, 3-6-anthers with the filaments combined 

 at the base ; in the fertile flowers the same perianth with a tubular 

 nectary, single style, fruit superior, 3-celled, cells 2-seeded. 



R. aculeatut, Common Butcher's Broom, is found wild in Britain. 

 It has ovate attenuated leave*, very acute, rigid, bearing the flowers 

 upon the middle of their upper surface; flowers solitary, rarely 2 

 together, subtended by a flat subulate scarious 1 -nerved bract It is 

 found in bunhy places and woods. The Butcher's Brooms of Europe 

 were once celebrated a* aperients and diuretics on account of their 

 bitter Bubacrid mucilaginous roots. 



R. liypophyUtun bad considerable reputation at one time. It* seeds 

 are very horny, and when roasted are said to form a pleasant substitute 

 for coffee. 



( I.inclley, Vegetable Kingdom; Babington, Manual of British Botany.) 



RUSH. [Juucus.] 



RUSH DUTCH. fE(j0iHBTACWt] 



RUSH, n.'lWKUIXU. [BUTOMACE*.] 



RUTA, a genus of 1'lante belongiiiR to the natural oader fix 

 The following is a description of this genus : Calyx 4-partite, 

 deciduous, shorter than the petals, which are four and uuguiculate, 

 with the limb vaulted. Stamens eight, longer than the petals ; 



