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tube. — Native of the Welt Indies. It made a part of a 

 fine collection of (love plants, brought over by the late 

 much-lamented carl of Seaforth, and given by his lordfhip 

 to A. B. Lambert, efq. This plant fi'.it flowered in Mr. 

 Lambert's (love, in June, 1807. Its habit i5 fhrubbv. 

 Leaves different from the lalt, in being crenate and wavy. 

 Flowers remarkably abundant, their Italics affembled in a 

 corymbofe manner. Corolla of a rich orange-fcarlet, but 

 fcarcely one-third the fize of the R.formofa. Seeds with .1 

 white border. 



12. R. fecunda. Yellow Ruellia. " V'ahl. Symb. v. 3. 

 84." Willd. n. 36. — " Leaves ovate, fomewhat hcart- 

 fhaped, entire, villous. Cluiters axillary, turned one way." 

 — Native of the Eall Indies. Herbage downy. Leaves 

 ftalked, an inch long, obtufe ; the younger ones hoary, ra- 

 ther pointed. Fooijlalks widely fpreading, fcarcely fhorter 

 than the leaves. Clujlers almoit a fpan long ; the partial 

 flower-ltalks (hort and diltant. BraSeas fetaceous, (till 

 fhorter. Calyx hairy. Corolla fmooth, yellow, an inch 

 long. Germen villous and hoary. Vahl. Mr. Brown, not 

 having perhaps inveitigated the fruit of this fpecies, has 

 marked its genus as doubtful. 



13. R. reptans. Creeping Ruellia. Forft. Prodr. 44. 

 Willd. n. 37.—" Leaves ftalked, ovate, obtufe, bluntly 

 ferrated. Flower-ilalks terminal, fomewhat fpiked."— Na- 

 tive of the ifland of Tanna. We have feen no fpecimen, 

 but Mr. Brown has afcertaincd this to be a true Ruellia. 



14. R. aujlralis. Southern Ruellia. Cavan. Ic. v. 6. 

 62. t. 586. f. 1. Brown 11. 1. — Flowers axillary, nearly 

 feflilc, folitary or ternate. Segments of the calyx awl- 

 fhaped, ro: gh, feparate to the bafe. Leaves ftalked, ellip- 

 tic-oblong, entire, fmooth. Stem diffufe. — Native of New 

 South Wales, from whence we received fpecimens from Dr. 

 White in 1792. Mr. Brown has alfo obferved it in the tro- 

 pical part of New Holland. The firm is of humble growth, 

 rather fhrubby, more or lefs diffufe, branched, flender, 

 quadrangular, fmooth. Leaves moit crowded towards the 

 tops of the branches, fmall, hardly an inch long ; paler be- 

 neath. Tube of the corolla not much longer than the calyx ; 

 its limb dilated and fpreading, with rounded, entire, nearly 

 uniform fegments. We know nothing of the colour. The 

 figure in Cavanilles is not charadteriltic. Its flowers are 

 much too fmall in the limb. The name too is faulty. 



15. R. pumilio. Dwarf Ruellia. Brown n. 2. — " Flowers 

 axillary, folitary, nearly feflile. BraCteas minute. Calyx 

 fmooth, tubular at the bafe. Leaves narrow-oblong, ob- 

 tufe. Stem diffufe." — Gathered by Mr. Brown at Port 

 Jackfon, New South Wales. 



16. R. acaulis. Humble Ruellia. Brown n. 3 "Stem 



fhort. Leaves oblong-wedge-fhapcd, obtufe. Stalks axil- 

 lary, fingle-flowercd, feveral times longer than the capfule. 

 Calyx nearly fmooth, without brafteas." — Gathered by 

 fir Jofeph Banks and Dr. Solander, in the tropical region 

 of New Holland. 



17. R. bradeata. Bractcated Ruellia. Brown n. 4. — 

 " Flowers axillary. Brafteas leafy, large, deciduous. 

 Tube of the corolla elongated ; its limb nearly equal. Cap- 

 fule with a taper bafe. Leaves oblong or elliptical. Stem 

 erecL" — Gathered by Mr. Brown, in the tropical part of 

 New Holland. 



By a miftake, as we prefumc, R. ringens of Linnius is 

 retained as fuch in Hort. Kcw. without any remark, and 

 even with the erroneous fynonym, which is directed to be 

 flruck out in Me Brown's Prodromus, 479, where the plant 

 in queftion makes a new genus. See HyqroPHILA. 



Mr. Pnrfh has three North American fpecies, befides 

 thofe to which we have adverted above, called hybrida, 



eiliofa, and the bumiflrata of Michaux. Thefe we dare not 

 admit, becaufe it does not appear that their generic cha- 

 racters have been critically examined by any body ; at 

 lead not with a reference to the above limitations of 

 R uellia. 



RUEMANNSFELDEN.in Geography, a town of Ba- 

 varia ; 36 miles E. of Ratifbon. 



RUENGAS, a country of Africa, S. of Monoemugi, 

 about S. lat. 7 . 



RUERLOO, a town of Holland, in the county of 

 Zutphen ; 4 miles W. of Borckdoe. 



RUESCAR, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre- 

 nada ; 15 miles E. of Almeria. 



RUESTA, a town of Spain, in Aragon, on the Ara- 

 gOH ; 24 miles W. of Jaca. 



RVEUTZENDORFF, a town of Auftria j 4 miles 

 E.N.E. of Entzerftorff. 



RUFF, or Ruffle, in Military Language, a beat on 

 the drum. Lieutenant-generals have three ruffles, major- 

 generals two, brigadiers and governors one, astheypafsby 

 the regiment, guard, &c. See Drum. 



Rvi'V-trees. See KooF-trees. 



RUFFACH, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Upper Rhine ; 8 miles S. of Colmar. 



RUFFE, in Ichthyology, the Englifh name of the cernua, 

 or fmall gilded pearch, a fifh common in oiur rivers, and 

 much refembling the pearch in figure, though of a more 

 flender form. 



The ruffe is called by the generality of authors cernua Jlu- 

 •viatilis ; and by fome chxrus acerina and afpredo. It is called 

 by Johnfon and Charleton Mofcro/lus. Willughby, as well 

 as thefe authors, has mentioned the fcrollus as another fpecies 

 of fifh ; but it is proved, by obfervation, that they are evi- 

 dently the fame fpecies. Artedi makes this fifh a pearch, or 

 perca ; and accurately diftinguifhes it from the other fifh of 

 that genus by the name of the pearch with only one fin on 

 the back, and with a cavernous head. In the Linnaean 

 fyilem it is the Perca Cernua ; which fee. 



This fifh may be preferved in glafs jars with frefh 

 water, and be made very tame. It mult be fed, for it 

 cannot fubfiit on the animalcula of river-water, as fmall 

 dace can. 



No fifh (hews the circulation of the blood in a finer man- 

 ner than ruffes, whofe fins are exceedingly tranfparent. Be- 

 fides, it is a creature vallly tenacious of life, and will live 

 twenty or thirty minutes out of water, without receiving 

 much damage. Phil. Tranf. N : 478. p. 26. 



Ruffe, in Ornithology, the name of a male fpecies of bird, 

 the female of which is called reeve, and the Latin name for 

 which is avis pugnax, or the fighting bird. 



This fpecies is the Thin ga pugnax of Linnaeus; which 

 fee. 



The feathers of the male afTiime in feveral parts a variety 

 of colours ; but they are diltinguifhed by a very remarkable 

 circle of long feathers, furrounding their necks ; whence 

 their name : on the back of their necks they have a tuft of 

 feathers, which fpread wide on both fides ; theft- feather* 

 around the neck are black in fome birds ; and in others 

 white, yellovy, or ferruginous ; and they frequently differ 

 in colour, even in the fame bird ; the coverts of the wings 

 arc brown or afh-coloured ; the feathers on the bread bLck 

 or dufky ; the four exterior feathefl of the tail of a cine- 

 reous brown, and the four middle barred with black and 

 brown ; the bill is black towards the end, and red at the 

 bafe ; the legs are yellow. In moulting they lofe the neck- 

 feathers, nor do they recover them till after their return in 

 the following fpring, when a fet of fmall pear-fhaped yellow 

 4 S 2 pimplei 



