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RUELLIA. 
Many of his compositions for the church are still, extant in 
the museum collection of masses and motets, some of which 
were published as early as the year 1503, immediately after 
the invention of musical types. 
RUEDOCK, a small river of Wales, in Merionethshire, 
which runs into the Dee, near a small village of the same 
name, about a mile from Bala. 
IIUE'FUL, adj. Mournful; woeful ; sorrowful. 
When we have our armour buckled on, 
The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords. 
Spur them to rueful work, rein them from ruth. 
Shalcspeare 
He sigh’d, and cast a rueful eye; 
Our pity kindles, and our passions die. Dryden. 
RUE'FULLY, adv. Mournfully; sorrowfully.—Why 
should an ape run away from a snail, and very ruefully and 
frightfully look back as being afraid. More. 
- RUE'FULNESS, s. Sorrowfulness; mournfulness. 
For he was false, and fraught with ficklenesse, 
And learned had to love with secret lookes. 
And well could daunce, and sing with ruefulness. 
Spenser. 
RUEING, s. Lamentation.—I pray God this sudden 
riches make not again a long repentance, this sudden joy a 
lone: rueing. Sir T. Smith. 
RUEL, a small town of France, with a number of beau¬ 
tiful country houses, and 2500 inhabitants ; 9 miles north¬ 
west of Paris. 
RUELLE, s. [French.] A circle; an assembly at a 
private house. Not used. —The poet, who flourished in 
the scene, is condemned in the rttelle. Dryden. 
RUELLIA [so named in memory of Joannes Ruellius, 
physician at Paris; author of a treatise “ De Natura Stir- 
pium”], in Botany, a genus of the class didynamia, order 
angiospermia, natural order of personatae, acanthi (.Tuss .)— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth, one-leaved, five- 
parted, permanent; segments linear, acute, straight, per¬ 
manent. Corolla : one-petalled, irregular, with a patulous, 
inclined neck ; border five-cleft, spreading, blunt, with the 
two upper segments more reflexed. Stamina: filaments 
four, placed where the tube widens, approximating by pairs; 
anthers scarcely longer than the tube. Pistil: germ roundish ; 
style filiform, the length of the stamens; stigma bifid, acute, 
the lower segments rolled in. Pericarp: capsule, round, 
■ acuminate both ways, two-celled, two-valved, opening elastic- 
ally by the claws; partition contrary. Seeds: a few, roundish, 
compressed.—In some species there is the rudiment of a fifth 
stamen.— Essential Character. Calyx five-parted. Co¬ 
rolla sub-campanulate. Stamina approximating by pairs. 
Capsule opening by elastic teeth. 
The Ruellite are very nearly allied to the Justicise, in their 
natural order, flowers, and habit. The case is the same in 
several other genera of the class diandria : and in Verbena 
some species belong to this, and others to that class. 
1. Ruellia blechum, or hairy-leaved, thick-spiked Ruellia. 
—Stem herbaceous, a foot high, upright, branched, four- 
cornered, striated, even. Seeds black.—It is an annual 
plant, common in pastures and bushy places in Jamaica. 
2. Ruellia blechioides, or smooth, thick-spiked Ruellia.— 
Stems prostrate, dichotomous, even, slightly four-cornered. 
Spikes loose, four-cornered, made up of cordate floral leaves, 
with two short, lanceolate bractes within each, and within 
these two sessile flowers, one without the other.—Native of 
Jamaica. 
3. Ruellia angustifolia, or narrow-leaved Ruellia. Native 
of the West Indies. 
4. Ruellia strepens, or whorl-flowered Ruellia. — Root 
fibrous, perennial. Stems about afoot high. Flowers axil¬ 
lary, Iw'o or three from the same point, sitting very close to 
the stalk, small, of a pale purple colour.—Native of Virgi¬ 
nia and Carolina. It flowers in July and August. 
5. Ruellia macrophylla, or long-leaved Ruellia.—Stem 
four-cornered, pubescent, seemingly herbaceous. Pedicels 
in pairs half an inch long, one-flowered, having a lanceo¬ 
late ciliate bracte at the base on each side longer than the 
pedicels.—Native of the island of Santa Maria. 
6. Buellia patula, or spreading Ruellia.—Shrubby; the 
whole plant very fetid, somewhat villose. Stem a foot high 
or more, branches spreading at an acute angle, from the 
very bottom.—Native of the East Indies. 
7. Ruellia pallida, or pale-leaved Ruellia.—Stem obscurely 
four-cornered, with a groove in each side. Flowers large, 
violet-coloured. 
8. Ruellia clandestina, or three-flowered Ruellia.—Root 
perennial, composed of many fleshy fibres. Peduncles 
naked, dividing into two smaller ones, each sustaining one 
small, purple, fugacious flower.—Native of Barbadoes. 
9. Ruellia paniculata, or panicled Ruellia.—Root per¬ 
ennial. Stems four or five feet high, much diffused.- Flow¬ 
ers at the divisions of the stem, small, purple, of short du¬ 
ration.—Native of Jamaica. 
10. Ruellia intrusa.—Stem herbaceous. Branches bluntly 
four-cornered, hairy, jointed ; joints two inches long, thick¬ 
ened at the base. Flowers solitary, alternate, or very rarely 
opposite. 
11. Ruellia tuberosa, or tuberous-rooted Ruellia.—The 
roots are composed of many swelling fleshy tubers, which 
run deep into the ground, and are like those of the Day 
Lily (Hemerocallis), but smaller. Slem four or five inches 
high, sending out two or three short side-branches. Flowers 
large, blue.—This plant is very common in most parts of 
Jamaica. 
12. Ruellia tentaculata.—Native of the East Indies. 
13. Ruellia ciliaris, or ciliate-leaved Ruellia.—Stem pubes¬ 
cent Flowers axillary, sessile.—Native of the East Indies 
and Cochinchina. 
14. Ruellia biflora, or two-flowered Ruellia.—Flowers 
twin, subsessile.—Native of Carolina. 
15. Ruellia crispa, or curled-leaved Ruellia.—Leaves sub- 
crenate, lanceolate-ovate, heads ovate, leafy, hispid, stem 
creeping.—Native of Carthagena in New Spain. 
16. Ruellia faseiculata, or aggregate-flowered Ruellia.— 
Leaves petioled, oblong, toothed; petioles winged, flowers 
aggregate, terminating and lateral. Stems herbaceous, fili¬ 
form, decumbent.—Found in the island of Ceylon. 
17. Ruellia mollissima, or soft Ruellia.—Leaves petioled, 
broad-lanceolate, quite entire, very soft. Flowers in bundles. 
The whole plant villose and soft. Branches roundish.—Na¬ 
tive of Madagascar. 
18. Ruellia undulata, or waved-leaved Ruellia.—Leaves, 
petioled, oblong, waved, heads axillary, sessile. Stem 
herbaceous, erect, smooth, four-cornered, with the corners 
blunt, and a wide deep groove on each side. Corolla a little 
longer than the calyx, and smooth.—Found in the East 
Indies. 
19. Ruellia involucrata, or involucred Ruellia.—Leaves 
lanceolate, quite entire, smooth, heads terminating, involu- 
cred, hairy. Stem upright, obscurely four-cornered by four 
decurrent lines. Flowers imbricate, in a shortly peduncled 
head, the side of a hazel nut.—Found in the East Indies. 
20. Ruellia repanda, or spreading-leaved Ruellia.—Leaves 
lanceolate, bluntly toothed, petioled, stem creeping. Flow¬ 
ers opposite.—Native of Java. 
21. Ruellia ringens, or ringent-flowered Ruellia.—Leaves 
oblong, quite entire, flowers solitary, sessile, stem procum¬ 
bent, a span long, jointed.—Native of the East Indies, 
Ceylon and China. 
22. Ruellia antipoda. — Leaves mucronate-serrate, stem 
creeping, flower sub-spiked, terminating in fives or threes. 
This has the appearance of veronica officinalis, but much 
smaller,—Native of the East Indies, China, and Cochinchina. 
23. Ruellia repens, or creeping Ruellia.—Leaves lanceo¬ 
late, acuminate, quite entire, flowers sessile, bractes petioled, 
longer than the calyx, stem creeping. Flowers lateral, soli¬ 
tary.—Native of the East Indies. 
24. Ruellia 
