CRUSEA RU'BRA. 
PINK-FLOWERED CRUSEA. 
EXOGENE. OR DICOTYLEDONES. 
‘ Natural division 
ratusesi to which . Y —- 
this Plant belongs. So? 
NATURAL ORDER, RUBIACE, 
catycrrLora, ae 
oF EB 
Artificial divisions hag ; 
to which MONOGYN 
DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs. OF pheetalaleng 
No. 82. 
* igs CHAMISSO. ET SCHLECHTENDAHL. Catycts tubus ovato- 
d supra ovarium constrictus, ae ee quadrifidus, laciniis lan- 
ets en hirtis, plurimis ssoriis minimis. Coronia hypocra- 
terimorpha, tubo elo ss apice edtles,4 fauce paid limho quadrifido. Sra- 
mina exserta, Srynvus exsertus,apice breviter bifidus, Fructus coccis 2 inde- 
hiscentibus monospermis ab axi persistente plano membranaceo calycem 
persistentem retinente demum solutus. 
SPECIES. Crusra RUBRA. ene: ET spinster use Cavis her- 
baceo tetragono hispido, ramis oppositis, nervis 
utrinque obliquis, stipulacgm setis 7-9 Hii DECANDOLLE: Prodromus y. 4, 
p. 567. 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, CrusEa. TuseE of the calyx con- 
tracted above the ovary, limb deeply 4-cleft, the divisions lanceolate 
or linear and hispid, with many small accessary teeth between them. 
Coro. salver-shaped with a long tube widened at the top, the throat 
without hairs, the limb 4-cleft. Sramens exserted. Sry.e exserted, 
shortly 2-cleft at the top. Fruir dividing when ripe into two one- 
seeded indehiscent nuts, separating themselves from a plane membra- 
naceous axis which remains with the persistent limb of the calyx. 
DESCRIPTION- OF THE SPECIES, Cruse RUBRA. ANNUAL, erect, 
of several feet in height. Brancnes numerous, opposite, square, cov- 
ered with long stiff white somewhat reflexed hairs, each rising from a 
small tubercle. Leaves opposite, an inch and a half to two inches 
long, ovate or somewhat oblong, acuminate, entire, rounded or con- 
tracted at the base into a leaf-stalk from three to six lines long, hairy 
on both surfaces, the under side paler green than the upper, nerves 
diverging from the midrib, prominent and very hairy underneath. 
Srrputes connected with the base of the petioles in a membranous 
hispid sheath bordered on each side by 7, 8, or 9 erect hispid sete. 
Heaps of flowers terminal, surrounded by an involucre of from four 
to seven leaves resembling those of the stem, but narrower and very 
unequal in size. FLOwers pink resembling in aspect those of a Pi- 
melea. Catryx sessile on the receptacle, intermixed with long white 
