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4. S. maculata, olim Ruellia. A small herbaceous plant ; when 

 in vigour very ornamental for the double row of blotches of 

 silvery film upon each of its large, smooth, glossy, deep-green 

 lanceolate leaves, three or four inches long. Dr. Anderson 

 remarks : " The silvery white spots on the leaves, so beautifully 

 marked in its native forests, are seldom well developed in 

 Calcutta." 



5. S. tomentosa. A small not very ornamental plant, with 

 densely woolly stem and leaves. 



6. S. sessilis. Native of Bombay; described in Curtis as 

 bearing large handsome blue-rimmed flowers with lilac tube. 



Goldfussia. 



1. G. colorata. A handsome small shrub three feet high, with 

 oval, taper-pointed, saw-edged, deep green leaves, which, while 

 it is in blossom, from December to March, contrast well with its 

 sprays of gay crimson bell-like flowers. 



2. G. isophylla. A very cheerful and delightful little bushy 

 plant about two feet high, with dark willow-like leaves ; 

 blossoms in the shade in the Cold season, with an unlimited 

 profusion of pale-blue flowers, like those of the Harebell 

 Campanula. 



3. G. anisophylla. Differs imperceptibly from the preceding, 

 except in having its pairs of leaves of unequal size, and its 

 flowers a little larger. 



4. G. glomerata. A dwarf rather prostrate shrub, with hoary 

 green leaves, which contrast finely with the beautiful large, 

 deep azure-blue flowers, with swollen white tubes, that it bears 

 in the Cold season. 



5. G. lamiifolia. A very pretty small slender trailing plant ; 

 bears in the Cold season numerous little pale-lilac thimble- 

 formed flowers. 



6. G. divaricata. Dr. Anderson describes as a large shrubby 

 species from the temperate forests of Nepal ; bearing large 

 snowy-white flowers with a dark brown spot on the inside of the 

 tube of the corolla : plants die after ripening their seed. 



7. G. rubescens. Dr. Anderson says : " A native of the sub- 

 temperate forests of Sikim: a beautiful species producing a 

 profusion of large blue flowers once only in its lifetime." 



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