(AT. ORDER. 
Rhexiece. 
RHEXIA GLUTINOSA. YELLOW-FLOWERED RHEXIA, 
Class VIII. Octandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, lanceolate, four to five-cleft. Petioles, four in- 
serted upon the calyx. 
Spe. Char. Stein, with winged angles, somewhat hairy. Leaves, 
sessile, ovate-lanceolate, serrate-ciliate, sprinkled with appressed 
hairs on both sides. 
The stein is erect, quadrangular, branched, and rises from one 
to three feet in height ; the leaves are sessile, quite entire, linear-lan- 
ceolate, or ovate, and three nerved ; the flowers are by threes, disposed 
in cymose corymb, and of a purple or yellow color ; the tube of the 
calyx is ovate and ventricose at the base, but constricted at the neck, 
or near the apex ; limb four-cleft and permanent ; the petals are four 
in number, and obovate ; stamens eight ; anthers not drawn out at 
the base ; cadsules free in the bottom of the calyx, four-celled, with 
lunate, pedicellate placentas ; seeds cochleate. 
This plant is a native of the warmer parts of Africa, and is 
found growing in some parts of South America, but is very little 
known in this country. Few specimens, however, have been inrro- 
duced, and raised in our hot-houses, but will not thrive unless kept 
about the same warmth that Orange trees require. It flowers from 
July till September. 
Propagation and Culture. All the species of this genus are 
very elegant and beautiful to the eye when in flower ; and if planted 
in a bed of peat soil (which is the only soil in which they will 
thrive), they will grow and increase abundantly ; and, if grown in 
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