. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . caducously pubescent, villous and grey atthe underside, where the veins are varicose, very shortlypetioled: petioles glandular, thick, wrinkled, stipulate:stipules 2, opposite, membranous, purple, linearly elongated,extremely narrow, pointed, recurved and divaricate. Flowersnumerous, solitary, axillary, about the length of the leaves,representing as they are placed along the branches longspikelike leafy racemes: peduncles filiform, dark-red, slightlyvillous, shorter than the flower, with two minute oppositehractes near the calyx. Cal
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . caducously pubescent, villous and grey atthe underside, where the veins are varicose, very shortlypetioled: petioles glandular, thick, wrinkled, stipulate:stipules 2, opposite, membranous, purple, linearly elongated,extremely narrow, pointed, recurved and divaricate. Flowersnumerous, solitary, axillary, about the length of the leaves,representing as they are placed along the branches longspikelike leafy racemes: peduncles filiform, dark-red, slightlyvillous, shorter than the flower, with two minute oppositehractes near the calyx. Cali/x turbinately campanulate 5-eleft, with a very unequally bilabiate limb; upper Up folded,greatly the largest, subtruncately round, notched in themiddle of the margin; lower lip 3-parted with small equalsubulate parallel recurved segments. Corolla about half aninch long, purple and yellow, twice the length of the calyx;but we had no opportunity of observing it before it wasdecayed. The genus has been named after Boissieu-Lamartiniere,a fiench 307 RUTA Ru^. DECANDRIA MOMOGYNI4. Nat. ord. Rutace^. Jussieu gen. 296. Div. II. Folia alterna. R UTA. Cal. 5-partitus parvus persistens. Pet. 5 unguiculata con-cava. Fil. basi latiora. Stiir. 1. Caps. 5-loba, 5-loc., inter apices quique-fariam deliiscens, loculis polyspermis: semina reniformia. Herbce aut suf-fruticesy folia, simplicia aut scepius \-2-pimiata; Jlores terminates corijmhosiaut cymosi, in R. graveolente omnes summo excepto i^-petali S-andri ^-locu-lares. Juss. 1. c. 297. R. pinuata, foliis pinnatis, foliolis lanceolatis basi attenuatis serrate-crenatis, petalis integerrimis. Hort. Kew. 2. pinnata. Li^in. suppl. 232. IVilldn sp. pi. 2. 54-4-. Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. o. 35. Vvviiex erect us y glaiiciusculuSy tritus digitis resinam redolens; rami ieretes^punctis minutis scabrati. Fol. ^-uncialia v. magis, ab omni parte puncticulata^alterna, distantia, impari-pinnata, bi-trijuga, patentissimay su
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