RHEX’IA MARIA‘’NA, 
MARYLAND RHEXIA, 
EXOGEN#, OR DICOTYLE DONE. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant at 
NATURAL ORDER, MELASTOMACE. 
{ Artificial st OCPANDRIA, 
NS to which MONOGYNIA, 
fee Plant a OF LINNEUS. 
No. 28. 
CALYCIFLORA&, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
GENUS. Ruexis. Roperr Brown. Carycrs tubus hasi ovato-ventricosus, 
apice in collum angustatus, limbo 4-fido persistente. Prrata 4, obovata. 
NTHEREZ i 
. 
DercanboLie. Prodromus Systematis Universalis a Vegetabilis, Pars. Ill, 
*#—. 
SPECIES. Lenetlanre Maatink, Linnevs. Cav xe tereti hirsuto, foliis 
oe, Serge lanceolatis q tis 3 iis, calyce glabriusculo. Decaw- 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Ryexia. Tose or THe Catyx ovato- 
ventricose at the base, contracted at the apex into a neck, limb four- 
cleft, persistent. Prats 4, obovate. AnTueERs 8, the connectivum 
neither visible nor prolonged at the base. Capsute free in the swollen 
tube of the calyx, four-celled, the placente lunate and pedicellate, 
Shoe cochleate. 
CHaracTer or THE Species, Ruexra Marrana. A_ perennial 
herbaceous plant, about one foot high. Srem erect, branched. 
BraNncHeEs opposite, roundish hyalightly hairy. Leaves opposite, lan- 
ceolato-oblong, acute, contract 1 at the base, reticulately three-nerved, 
sharply toothed, teeth pointed with hairs, bright green. Fiona 
Leaves small, lanceolate, bract-like. Petioies short, channelled, 
with scattered hairs. Frowers with short smooth pedicels. Catyx 
tubuloso-campanulate, ventricose at the base, membranaceous. Per- 
raxs 4, adhering to the limb of the calyx, spreading, roundish, faintly 
mucronate, smooth, purple. Sramens 8, protruding. ANTHERS 
linear, somewhat falcate, yellow, smooth, two-celled. Ovary ovato- 
globose, smooth. Styze slender, smooth, scarcely longer than the 
stamens. Stiema thickened, truncate. 
—— TO THE — 
eee 2, Ovary cut 
1, Flower it 
: across. ng net placente. 4, cohen Gon. 5, Seeds; all more or less magnified, 
