Ruellia foliis petiolatis, ovato-acuminatis, undulatis, pilosis, crenatis: pedunculis axillaribus, cum multis floribus tubæformibus.
Ruellia with petiolated leaves ovately pointed, waved, hairy, and scolloped. Footstalks axillary, with many long trumpet-shaped flowers.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom spread open.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
4. The capsule.
5. The same split open.
6. A ripe seed.
This new and beautiful species of Ruellia was introduced by Lord Seaforth from the West Indies, and flowered in Mr. Lambert’s stove at Boyton, in June 1807, for the first time in England; and continued, as he informs us, to flower during the greatest part of the summer, ripening its seeds in abundance, and being easily propagated by cuttings.[Pg 71]
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PLATE DXXVIII.
ORNITHOGALUM ELATUM.
Lofty Ornithogalum.