Ravenia
(no explanation given by author). Including Lemonia. ORD. Rutaceae. A genus comprising only a couple of species of highly glabrous, stove or warm greenhouse shrubs, with terete branchlets; one is a native of Cuba, and the other Brazilian. Flowers white or scarlet, few, on axillary, elongated peduncles; sepals unequal, imbricated, the two outer ones larger; corolla tube straight; limb sub-oblique, of five oblong lobes; stamens five, adnate to the throat of the corolla. Leaves opposite, one to three-leafleted; leaflets sub-coriaceous, lanceolate, entire, slightly dotted. The species are beautiful shrubs, thriving in sandy peat and fibry loam. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in bottom heat. R. rosea (rose-coloured). fl. rose-red, axillary, 2 1/2 in. to 3in. in diameter. Summer. l. trifoliolate; leaflets elliptic-obovate, entire, shining. h. 2ft. Brazil, 1880.
R. spectabilis (showy). fl. deep reddish-scarlet, showy; corolla fleshy, rugulose, hypocrateriform, the segments obtuse; racemes axillary, few-flowered, nearly equaling the leaves. July and August. l. trifoliolate; leaflets longer than the pubescent petiole, obovate, obtuse, glabrous. Branchlets pubescent. h. 2ft. Cuba, 1839. (B. R. xxvi. 59, under name of Lemonia spectabilis.)