late, sparingly gianduloso-pubesceut, lower part of the tube white, 
hairy on its upper side within; limb four-lobed, lobes blunt, or mar- 
ginate, the lower frequently bifid, the number of lobes of the calyx 
varying with those of the corolla. Stamens included, didynamous, 
without the rudiment of a fifth ; filaments hairy; anthers suborbicular, 
attached by their backs, lobes bursting along their face. Pistil 
longer than the stamens, extending nearly to the division of the limb: 
stigma linear, narrow, extending a little way along the back of the 
style ; style glabrous, swelling towards its extremity, and termin¬ 
ating in a cone; germen obovato-lanceolate, compressed, ciliated at its 
apex, opposite the edges of the dissepiment. Ovules few\ 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The genus Goldfussia 
was established by Nees von Esenbeck, in his account of the East 
Indian Acanthacese, in Wallich’s Plantse Asiaticee Rariores, and inclu¬ 
ded fourteen species of Ruellia, in the Herbarium of the East India 
Company. In habit this species exceedingly resembles that longer 
known one, Goldfussia anisophylla, but is at once distinguished by 
the uniformity of its opposite leaves: and it is a smaller plant. They 
are both natives of Sylhet. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture, I have only seen 
this species in cultivation in the nursery garden of Mr. Cunningham, 
Comely Bank, Edinburgh; where it thrives well, and flowers freely 
during a great part of the year, in the stove, without requiring any 
particular attention. 
Derivation of the Name. 
The genus was named by Nees von Esenbeck, in honour of Professor Goldfuss, 
of Bonn. 
Synonyms. 
Goldfussia isophylla. Nees von Esenbeck j in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar.,3, 88. 
Wall. Cat., No. 7162. Grab. 
