Mariana. 
Virginica. 
[ 180 J 
CLASS VIII.— OCTANDRIA. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
184. RHEXIA. Gen. pi. 636. (Melastomx.) 
Calix urceolate, 4 to 5-cleft. Petals % ob- 
lique, inserted upon the calix. Anthers 
declinate. Capsule setigerous, 4-celled, 
included in the ventricose calix. Recepta- 
cles subulate. Seeds numerous. (Stamina 
sometimes 10.) — JSTutt. 
1. R. stem reddish, very hirsute; leaves hirsute- 
subpetiolate, oval-lanceolate, or lanceolate-li- 
near, with a long, tubulous, smoothish calix. — 
Mich, and Pursh. 
Icon. Pluk. inant. t. 428. f. 1. Lam. illustr. 
283. f. 1. 
A handsome plant, from one to two feet high. Flowers pale 
rose-red. In the fens of Jersey, common. Perennial. July, 
August. 
2. R. stem winged-angular, covered with a few 
scattered hairs ; leaves sessile, oval-lanceolate, 
the little teeth bristled and distinctly ciliate-ser- 
rate, sparingly hirsute, or sprinkled with hair. 
— Mich. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 968. Pluk. aim. t. 202. f. 8. 
Lam. illustr. t. 283. f. 2. 
Resembles No. 1, very much, but is a much more elegant 
plant, and has somewhat larger and deeper rose-red flowers, 
with bright orange -yellow anthers. Both these species might 
be readily cultivated in our gardens, by introducing a little 
bog earth with them, and culture would doubtless render them 
still more elegant. In similar places with No. 1, in Jersey, very 
common ; and in marshy low ground west of the Delaware, 
not unfrequent. No. 1, appears to be limited to Jersey. Pe« 
rennial. July, August. 
