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ROELLA CI LI ATA. 
( CILIATED-LEAVED ROELLA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
PEN TAN DMA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
CAMPANULACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. vi. p. 27* 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, evergreen, growing a foot or more in height. Branches irregu- 
larly disposed, generally curving downwards a little at the base, and afterwards ascending. Leaves 
sessile, erect, linear, acuminated, ciliated; upper ones larger and entire. Calyx with five long, and 
deeply-toothed lobes. Flowers solitary, terminal, surrounded by imbricated leaves. Corolla large, 
longer than the lobes of the calyx, whitish at the bottom, with a deep purple band round the centre, 
which merges into pale violet, and ultimately into a pinkish blue. 
A periodical which professes to be a 44 register of flowering plants," like a similar 
publication devoted to the discussion of interesting literary topics, would, we 
conceive, be wanting in a great part of its office, were old objects of acknowledged 
value excluded from its pages, and novelties permitted to engross undivided 
attention. At any rate, we are careful to make our Magazine the vehicle of 
renewing the popularity of any partly discarded but useful subject, as much as of 
securing admiration for one that has never before been presented. 
Of this class is the common, and perhaps we may add despised, plant displayed 
on the accompanying plate. The minuteness of its leaves, their tendency to exhibit 
a sickly, chaffy aspect, and especially the lengthened period through which it has 
been known to British floriculturists, have, to a surprising degree, operated against 
the size and fine combination of rich colours in its blossoms, to expel it from our 
gardens. It is, nevertheless, from the dimensions, richness, and favourite hue of its 
flowers, and on account of their being produced in the dull months of October, 
November, and December, a plant of no ordinary utility to the culturist who 
studies to render his greenhouse as alluring as possible at all seasons ; and for this 
reason we willingly befriend it by appending a drawing which was prepared in the 
autumn of 1839, from specimens which flowered most profusely in His Grace the 
Duke of Devonshire's greenhouses at Chiswick. 
Persons who have only witnessed the straggling or starved plants of this species 
