OF FLOWERS nearly sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, solitary, 
ovate or globose, few flowered, hairy, the upper heads forming a sort 
of glomerate broken spike at the extremity of the branches. Each 
head consists of a series of opposite bracts, of which the outer ones 
are short, ovate or lanceolate, and sterile, the inner ones from half an 
inch to an inch long, lanceolate, blunt, entire or toothed, each having 
a sessile flower in its axil. CaLyx consisting of five linear lanceolate 
unequal sepals, similar to the inner bract but smaller. Coro3ia 
nearly two inches long, of a rich blue, the tube narrow where included 
in the calyx, then spreading into a long and ample throat, the divisions _ 
of the limb short and broad, the whole corolla perfectly smooth rte 
and out, with the exception of a very few collecting hairs in the 
throat. FiLtamMents adhering to the corolla and to each aii half 
way up the throat, then free and flattened, the shorter ones scarcely 
d down. ANTHERS —— the cells parallel, mpening nearly | the 
whole length, ith 
phylla, from whence it appears the generic character is chiefly taken. 
Porutar anD GeocrapuicaL Notice. The genus Goldfussia is 
one of those separated by Nees von Esenbeck from the old hetero- 
morphous assemblage collected under the name of Ruellia. The 
species are all Indian, and appear to be chiefly, if not entirely, moun- 
tain plants. The present species from the mountains of Sylhet, may, 
perhaps, be a mere variety of the Goldfussia capitata of Nepal, and of 
the biceps of the Burmah country; if so, its range is extensive, but the 
solitary heads of flowers and the hairiness are the same in the culti- 
vated plant as in the wild specimens described by Nees. Another 
plant of the same genus, the Goldfussia anisophylla (which is the old 
Ruellia anisophylla of our gardens) has lately been the subject of 
some very interesting observations of Professor Morren, of Liege, who 
has detected a remarkable irritability in the upper part of the style, 
by which alone, when acted upon by insects or other external agents, 
the stigma is enabled, according to him, to come in contact with the 
pollen. G. B. 
InTRopUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurE, This species was first 
discovered in the mountains of Sylhet, by F. da Silva, one of the 
collectors employed by Dr. Wallich, and transmitted from Calcutta 
to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in whose stoves at Sion 
House, it first flowered in November, 1839. To his Grace’s conde- 
scension we are much indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. It 
should be planted in a eeatre of peat and loam. 
ATION OF THE s. 
a in honour of ft Goldfuss of Bonn, Secretary and Librarian 
o the Academy Nature spsilared oy "dag heaped, or in heads. 
GoLDFUSSIA GLOMERATA, — ‘ide Muitibck: in Wallich’s Plantz Asiatic 
Rariores, v. 3, p, 88 
