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RHEXIA versicolor. - 
Changeable-flowered Rhewia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Mreuastomacrenm. 
RHEXIA L,— Calyx tubulosus, basi demim amplians, ventricosus, 
apice in collo angustatus: limbo urceolato, 4-fido, persistente. Petala 4, 
ore calycis insidentia, laté obovata. (Stamina 8; filamenta longa, erecta, 
compressa, xqualia, in ‘ore calycis intra petala inserta, inarticulata; anthere 
lineares, declinatee, obtuse, absque rostro, cequales, apice foramine hiantes, 
infra dorso nec basi filamenta insidentes, basi non constrictee. Ovarium in 
yentre calycis, liberum. Stylus rectus, teres, staminibus’ brevior. Stigma 
parvum, subcapitatum, tenuissimé barbatum. Capsula globosa, in ventre 
calycis inclusa, libera, 4-locularis, 4-valvis; valvulis rima oblong4, singula 
in medio loculi hiante. Placente 4, baccate, pedicello brevi, plano, ad axin 
centralem adnato suffultee, compressee, valdé scrobiculate, in medio ‘loculi 
centrales, seminibus creberrimé et imbricatim tectees. Semina 00, reni- 
formia, punctata, umbilico amplo concavo terminata; testa simplex, cras- 
siuscula, crustacea, fragilis; albumen nullum. Embryo teres, curvatus, 
lacteus ; cotyledones breves, semicylindricee; radicula curvata, centripeta, 
cotyledonibus duplo longior. Don. Melastom. p. 22. 
R. versicolor ; undique pilosa, foliis ovato-oblongis serrulatis 5-nerviis subtds — 
discoloribus, floribus terminalibus solitariis fo 
ovata apice pilosa. 
“Caulis suffruticosus,. ramosus, dense pilosus. Folia 5-nervia, ovato- 
oblonga, petiolata, serrulata, utringue pilosa, subtis sanguinea.~ Flores albi, 
demim rubescentes, solitarii, terminales, folits involucrantibus multd breviores. 
Calyx ovatus, pilosus, limbo 4-partito, laciniis spatulatis apice serratis. 
Petala 4, unguiculata, obtusa, ciliata. Stamina 8, sub-equalia, declinata. 
Antheree innate, lineares, basi truncate, apice dehiscentes, estivatione 
inflere. Capsula semisupera, libera, ovata, calyce persistente inclusa, 
pilosa, ad cicatricem stylt truncata, membranacea, 4-locularis, placentis 
Spongiosis, act affixis. Semina numerosa, reniformia, tuberculata, testd 
crustaced fragilz, hilo magno excavato. 
liis brevioribus, capsula 
apice 
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This beautiful little plant is a native of St. Catharine’s, on the 
coast of Brazil, where seeds were collected by Mr. James M‘Rae, for 
the Horticultural Society, in 1825. Itis a hardy greenhouse plant, 
during all the suthmer covered with a profusion of delicate white 
flowers, changing to pink after having been a short time expanded, 
