﻿PLATE DXXVIL 



HUELLIA FULGIDA. 



Bright-flowered Rueltia. 



CLASS IV. ORDER I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One PointaL 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla monopetala, limbo 

 5-lobo, inaequali. Stamina biconjugata. 

 Stylus filiformis. Stigma bifidum. Cap- 

 sula dissepimentis dentatis, elasticis, de- 

 hiscentibus. Semina pauca. 



palement 5-parted. Blossom one petal: 

 border 5-lobed, unequal. Chives by pairs. 

 Shaft thread-shaped. Summit two-cleft. 

 Capsule with the partitions toothed, elastic, 

 and splitting. Seeds few. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Rueixia foliis petiolatis, ovato-acuminatis, un- (I Ruellia with petiolated leaves ovately pointed, 



dulatis, pilosis, crenatis : pedunculis axil- waved, hairy, and scolloped. footstalk 



laribus, cum multis floribus tubaeformibus. axillary, with many long trumpet-shaped 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and poiutal. 



4. The capsule. 



5. The same split open, 



6. A ripe seed. 



This new and beautiful species of Ruellia was introduced by Lord Seaforth from the West Indies, and 

 flowered in Mr. Lambert's stove at Boy ton, in June 1807, for the first time in England; and ccra. 

 nued, as he informs us, to flower during the greatest part of the summer, ripening its seeds in 

 dance, and being easily propagated by cuttings. 



