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24. Ruellia littoralis, or maritime Ruellia. — Shrubby, 
hoary, leaves wedge-form, serrate, refuse, smooth, flowers 
axillary, solitary, sub-sessile; the two large stamens have a 
tootlilet at the base.—Found in the East Indies. 
25. Ruellia longiflora, or long-flowered Ruellia.—Leaves 
ovate, quite entire, flowers axillary, solitary, very long, 
stem shrubby. 
26. Ruellia difformis.—-Diffused, hirsute, leaves linear, 
tooth-sinuate, entire, flowers in whorls, axillary.—Native 
of the East Indies. 
27. Ruellia barbata.—Leaves lanceolate, quite entire, 
flowers in whorls; calyxes acute, bractes oblong, stem upright, 
herbaceous, four-cornered.—Native of the East Indies. 
28. Ruellia salicifolia.—Leaves lanceolate, quite entire; 
flowers in whorls, calyxes awned, bractes lanceolate, stem 
upright: allied to the preceding, but differing in having the 
stem almost simple; the leaves longer and more attenuated 
at both ends.—Native of the East Indies. 
29. Ruellia balsamica.—Erect, smooth; leaves petioled, 
lanceolate, serrate, whorls sessile; stems four-cornered, jointed, 
flesh-coloured.—Very common in rice fields in the East 
Indies, especially when the harvest is over. It has a strong 
smell of turpentine. 
30. Ruellia uliginosa.-—Diffused, hirsute; leaves sessile, 
oblong, entire; spikes terminating, four-cornered.—This is 
a small plant, flowering in January and February. Very 
common in Tranquebar, &c. in rice fields. 
, 31. Ruellia hirta.—Rough-haired; leaves oblong, petioled, 
serrate; spikes terminating, imbricate; stem creeping, herba¬ 
ceous.—-Native of the East Indies. 
32. Ruellia pilosa.—Leaves opposite, ovate, entire, ciliate; 
flowers terminating, solitary.—Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
33. Ruellia depressa.—Leaves opposite, petioled, obovate, 
‘entire; stem closely depressed.—Native also of the Cape. 
This is singular in having the stem pressed close to the ground. 
34. Ruellia cordifolia. — Leaves cordate-ovate, sessile, 
tomentose-hoary beneath; flowers sub-spiked; stem shrubby; 
branches jointed.—Native of the East Indies. 
35. Ruellia secunda. — Leaves sub-cordate-ovate, quite 
entire, villose; racemes axillary, directed one way; stem, 
branches, leaves and petioles pubescent.—Found in the East 
Indies. 
36. Ruellia Japonica.—Leaves elliptic, flowers in spikes, 
bractes oblong, blunt; stem herbaceous, four-cornered, up¬ 
right.—Native of Japan. 
37. Ruellia guttata.—Leaves ovate-lanceolate, rugged at 
the edge, and waved; spikes terminating, imbricate; stem 
suffruticose; flowers alternate. 
38. Ruellia imbricata.—Leaves petioled, ovate, wave- 
crenate, the opposite one less; spikes imbricate, directed 
one way ; stem suffruticose; flowers three or four under each 
bracte.—Native of Arabia Felix and the East Indies. 
39. Ruellia aristata.—Leaves ovate, hoary beneath ; head 
terminating; calyxes and bractes nerved, awned; stem shrub¬ 
by. This is a little shrub, with the branches round at bot¬ 
tom, smooth, covered with an ash-coloured, smooth bark, 
villose at the end.—Found in Arabia Felix. 
40. Ruellia alopecuroidea.— Leaves ovate, smooth, ob¬ 
scurely repand; spikes terminating, hairy ; stem creeping.-— 
Found in Montserrat. 
41. Ruellia reptans.—Leaves petioled, ovate, blunt, bluntly 
serrate, peduncles terminating, sub-spiked.—Native of the 
island of Tanna. 
42. Ruellia fragrans.—■ Leaves sessile, oblong, bluntly 
serrate; flowers axillary, solitary, sessile.—Native of the 
island of Otaheite. 
43. Ruellia rupestris.—Stemless; leaves petioled, oblong, 
erenate-waved ; scapes erect, many-flowered.—Native of 
Hispaniola. 
Propagation and Culture .—These plants are propagated 
by seeds, which must be sown early in the spring in pots 
filled with light rich earth, and plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed ; and when the plants come up, they must be trans¬ 
planted each into a separate small pot, filled with rich earth, 
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and plunged into a hot-bed of tanner’s bark, where they 
must be shaded from the sun until they have taken new foot ; 
after which time they must have free air admitted to them 
every day in warm weather, and be constantly watered three 
or four times a week during the summer season. 
RUENGAS, a people of Africa, described in our maps as 
occupying the interior of the eastern coast; but nothing au¬ 
thentic is known concerning them. 
RUFASA, a town in the east of Spain, in the province of 
Valencia, on the borders of New Castile, with5000 inhabitants. 
RUFF, s. A puckered linen ornament, formerly worn 
about the neck. See Ruffle. 
Sooner may a gulling weather spy. 
By drawing forth heaven’s scheme tell certainly. 
What fashion’d hats, or ruffs, or suits next year. 
Our giddy-headed antick youth will wear. Donne. 
The ladies freed the neck from those yokes, those linnen 
ruffs in which the simplicity of their grandmothers had 
enclosed it. Adclison. —Any thing collected into puckers 
or corrugations. 
I rear’d this flower. 
Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread. Pope. 
A small river fish.—A ruff or pope is much like the pearck 
for shape, and taken to be better, but will not grow bigger 
than a gudgeon ; he is an excellent fish, and of a pleasant 
taste. Walton. —A state of roughness. Obsolete. — As 
fields set all their bristles up; in such ruff wert thou. 
Chapman's Iliad. —A bird of the tringa species, still consi¬ 
dered in several parts of England as a great dainty. 
Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some 
May yet be there ; and god-wit, if we can, 
Knat, rail, and ruff too. B. Jonson. 
A particular kind of pigeon.—At cards, the act of win¬ 
ning the trick by trumping cards of another suit. 
[ ronffe , Fr.] 
To RUFF, v. a. To ruffle; to disorder. 
The fether in her lofty crest. 
Ruffed of Love, gan lowly to avale. Spenser. 
The bird, ruffing his feathers wyde. Spenser. —To trump 
any other suit of the cards at whist. 
RUFFACH, a small town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Upper Rhine. It was taken in 1675, by 
Marshal Turenne. Population 3300; 8 miles south of 
Colmar, and 27 north-north-west of Bale. 
RUFFE, the English name of the cernua, or small gilded 
pearch, a fish common in our rivers, and much resembling 
the pearch in figure, though of a more slender form,—In the 
Linnaean system it is the Perca Cernua, which see. 
RUFFE, in Ornithology, the name of a male species of 
bird, the female of which is called reeve. —This species is 
the Tringa Pugnax of Linnaeus, which see. 
RUFFEC, a small town in the west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Charente, on the small river Leain. It has some 
trade in wine and brandy. Population 2100; 24 miles 
north of Angouleme, and 34 south of Poitiers. 
RTJFFI (Antony de), an historian, born at Marseilles, in 
1607, was a counsellor in the seneschalcy of Marseilles. He 
wrote an elaborate History of Marseilles, in one vol. folio; 
a Life of Gaspard de Sinicane, known by the name of the 
Chevalier de Coste, 1655, 12mo.; a History of the Counts of 
Provence, 1655, folio, much esteemed; and he left in MS. 
a History of the Generals of the Galleys. The style of these 
. works is dry and meagre, but the matter is exact and curious. 
His son, Louis-Antony de Ruffi, pursued a similar line 
of study, and added to his father’s history of Marseilles, a 
volume published with a new edition of the first, in 1696. 
He likewise, in 1712, published “ Dissertations Historiques 
et Critiques sur l’Origine des Comtes de Provence, de Venais- 
sin, de Forcalquier, et des Vicomtes de Marseille,” 4to.; and 
in 1716, “ Une Dissertation Historique, Chronologique, et 
Critique sur les Eveques de Marseille.” He died in 1724, 
at the age of 66. Bap/e. Moreri. 
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