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RUELLIA MACROPHYLLA. 
cultivation. They were formerly here in many instances, but requiring a moist 
warm atmosphere, at a time when gardeners did not know how to obtain heat 
without dryness, they soon became sickly and died. Among the reputed species of 
this very genus we see in our Herbarium the Ruellia trivialis, grandiflora and 
longiflora of Salzmann, all from the woods of Bahia, every one of which is a finer 
species than even this. Nor are the East Indian species inferior, as is attested by 
the numerous kinds of Goldfussia, Strohilanthes, Dipter acanthus, &c, with which 
botanists are familiar — only, however, in their dried gardens. As they are easily 
propagated and grown, all. these would be real acquisitions, and might be easily had." 
John Ruelle, a botanist of Soissons, in France, is honoured in the generic name. 
