﻿PLATE DVI. 

 RUELLIA CRIST ATA. 



Crested Riiellia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 

 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla monopetala, limbo 

 5-lobo, inaequah. Stamina biconjugata. 

 Stylus filiformis. Stigma bifidum. Cap- 

 sula dissepjmentis dentatis, elasticis, dehis- 



*rALEMENT 5-parted. Blossom one petal: 

 border 5-lobed, unequal. Chives by pairs. Shaft 

 thread-shaped. Summit two-cleft. Cap- 

 sule with the partitions toothed, elastic, and 

 splitting. Seeds few. 



Ruexlia. cristata, 



CHARACTER. 



RUELLIA with crested flowers growing in a ter- 

 minal four-sided spike. Blossoms scarlet : 

 the segments of the border are unequal and 

 pointed : the lower segment is rolled back : 

 the leaves are nearly lance-shaped, pointed, 

 and undulated. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



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Of this fine stove plant there is a very good figure in the Hortus Schoenbrunnensis of Jacquin 



the appellation of Justicia cristata. But finding the generic character accord much better % 



genus Ruellia, we have, in conformity to the sexual system of Linnams, given it 



Our figure represents only a side branch of the plant, whose size was congenial to 1 



the work ; and although the centre branch would have been, like Jacquin' s figure, more splendid, i 



would by no means have been so picturesque. It flowered for the first time in this country with A. I 



Lambert, esq., and was introduced by Lord Seaforth from the West Indies, 



