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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 1 
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, Strobilanthes, 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. 
