See Plate XXXIV. Chelone Ruellioides.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Chelone foliis oppositis, sessilibus, acuminatis, profunde serratis; corollis campanulatis, purpureis.
Chelone with opposite leaves fitting close to the stem, tapering to the point, and deeply sawed; blossoms bell-shaped, and purple.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Blossom cut open, to shew the situation of the four Chives, and station of the fifth imperfect thread.
2. The Pointal, (natural size).
3. The Seed-vessel, with the Empalement and Shaft still remaining attached.
This species of Chelone is of the same date in our gardens as the Chelone Ruellioides, and was introduced through the same medium: it is a native of Mexico in South America; will make a pretty addition to our greenhouse exotics; and is described and engraved by A. J. Cavanilles, in his first volume of Spanish plants. It seems to thrive best in rich, dungy earth, and is easily propagated by cuttings, or seeds; of which latter it produces abundance; but does not appear to be long lived. The plant from which this figure was taken, flowered (as we suppose for the first time in England) in the collection of B. Robertson, Esq. of Stockwell in Surry, and kindly communicated by him to the author.[Pg 162]
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