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GOLDFUSSIA GLOMERATA. 
( AGGREGATED-FLOWERKD GOLDFUSSIA. ) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMTA. AN IOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, nearly equal. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a five-parted, 
obtuse, equal limb. Stamens included, didynamous, lower ones often very much the shortest, 
reflexed. Anthers changing; cells in the connective hooked, glandular, oblique, ovate, membra- 
naceous. Stigma simple, awl-shaped, sometimes indistinctly crenated. Capsule hexangular, with 
a two-valved, easily-loosened dissepiment ; cells two-seeued. Seed discoidal. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, evergreen. Steins much-branching, a little swollen above the 
joints, hairy. Leaves ovate, acuminate, usually a little unequal ; green, and covered with long white 
shaggy hairs on the upper side; whitish, with much fewer hairs below; crenate at the margin. Flowers 
in scattered heads, very large, deep blue. 
Only one species of Goldfussia , besides that at present figured, is generally 
cultivated in British gardens, and this, though it properly bears the name of 
G. anisophylla , is much more familiar under the appellation of Ruellia anisophylla. 
It is a pretty stove shrub, easily cultivated, branching freely, with smooth unequal 
leaves, and remarkable for the profusion in which it produces its pale, bluish white 
blossoms, and for the great length of time through which these continue to expand. 
G. glomerata is widely different from anisophylla in the strength and luxuriance 
of its habit, which, by consequence, is necessarily rather more diffuse ; in the 
greater size of its foliage, which is nearly six times as large ; in the prominent 
shaggy hairiness of both branches and leaves ; and the highly increased dimensions^ 
as well as far intenser hue, of its very handsome flowers. These last are, further, 
not so scattered as those of the old species, and are collected together in loose heads 
near the extremities of the branches, a quantity of smaller leaves usually surround- 
ing them. 
Not having been in the country more than three or four years, it is yet rare in 
collections. We believe it was originally introduced by His Grace the Duke of 
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