tnetly larger. Corozia with a tube, about as long again as the 
calyx, slightly curved and inflated above the middle, throat scarcely 
spreading, limb spreading and nearly flat, the divisions very broad 
and slightly emarginate, of a bright blue, with a slight whitish spot at 
the base of each fissure and reddish towards the throat. STaMENS 
inserted at about the middle of the tube, filaments short, the upper 
ones rather the longest and hairy, the lower ones smooth. CapsuLe- 
oblong, much contracted at the base, rather pointed, usually six- 
seeded, sometimes only four-seeded. 
Popuxtar AND GEoGrapHicaL Notice. The genus Ruellia, long 
a receptacle for a geod aay mass of didynamone Acanthacez was 
first reduced to natural limits by Brown, whose ideas on its extent, 
have been pretty nearly followed by Nees von Esenbeck in his elabo- 
rate dissertation on East Indian Acanthaceez. The present species, 
although not to be found in that dissertation, would, we have little 
doubt, be still considered by him, as it was by Brown, as belonging to 
the true Ruelliz. It has not, however, been so fortunate as tosits 
specific name. Having appeared at different times, in different gar- 
dens from different sources, it has already been three times published 
as new; and is, occasionally to be met with under names different 
from all three. That given above is, as far as we can learn, the oldest, 
cially to Asia, the Asiatic Archipelago, and the adjoining warmer 
portions of Australia. The Ruellia Australis, extends as far as Port 
Jackson, and from thence, as it would appear, to our East Indian pos- 
sessions, from whence it is, in the Botanical Magazine, stated io have 
been received. It does not, however, appear in what pariicular part of 
that extended reigon it was found, nor can it be a common plant iti 
as we do not aad it among Dr. Wallich’s collections. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. Frequently cultivated 
amongst stove annuals in continental gardens, it has lately appeared in 
our own collections ; said, as above stated, to have been received from 
East India. In the garden of the Horticultural Society, where our 
drawing was made, it flowers abundantly, and when once full of 
flowers, has a very pretty effect, though apt to look weedy, if grown 
too much to le 
DERIVATION oF THE Nam 
RveE xi, named after Jean Rueile, a French retaias ‘of the sixteenth century. 
AvsTRALIs, southern, in . to its —— station 
Roe AvstTrats. ae x ag y. 6, p. 62, t. 586. Brown’s Prodro- 
RUELLIAACHYRANTHIFOLIA. Desfontaihe Catalogus Horti Parisiensis, 3rd edit. 
p. 391. 
Rvetiia Evecans. Hooker: Botanical Magazine, t. 3389, 
RvELiia PARvirtora of French gardens. 
