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scentibus ; bracteis a floribus remotis, parvis, subulatis ; calyce 5-par- 

 tito, segmentis aequalibus ; corolla cylindrica, subcoriacea, glabra, 

 limbo obscure bilabiatim diviso ; labio inferiore trifido, lobis aequa- 

 libus, ovalibus ; superiore minute bifido ; antheris inclusis. 



Hub. In coUibus Mishmi, heth. Griffith !, Kew Distr, n. 6156. 



Planta suffruticosa, Caulis tetragonus, glaber, angulis obtusis. Folia 

 cum petiole 6-uncialia vel pedalia, 2-4 unc. lata; petiolo 1-2 unc. 

 longo, Raeemus 3-5 unc. longus, rachi subtetragona, glabra. Pe- 

 duncutt graciles, i unc. longi. Corolla 1 unc, longa, glabra. An- 

 therce lineares, muticse, glabrae. Filamenta ligulata, glabra. Stylus 

 subulatuS; integer; glaber. Capsula ignota. 



6. P. GUTTATUS. N. ah E. in Wall. l. c. et DC. L c. p. 321. — Justicia 



Wall 



Wall. Cat. 24311, Griffith 



" Naga " dictis. Masters ! 



Dewangiri in provincia Bhotauj Simons ! 



6. P. VJTELLINUS, r. Anders, — Endopogon vitellinus, IV. ab E. in DC. 

 Z. c. p. 723. — Justicia vitellina, Roxb. Fl. Ind, i. p. 115. — Phlogacan- 



Wall 



Justicia 



asperula. Wall. Cat. 7171, Bot. Cab. t. 1681.— J. quadrangularis 



Wall. Cat. 2451, et Hook. Bot. Mag 



Grif^ 



Thomson ! ; in Assam, Masters 

 Chittagong, Roxburgh ! In horto bot. Calc. cultus. 



The synonymy shows that this species has been twice described 

 by Nees, first as PJilogacanthus asperulus, and again in the sup- 

 plementary part of the 11th volume of DeCandolle's * Prodromus/ 

 as Endopogon vitellinus. There is an excellent drawing of Jus^ 

 ttcia vitellina among Roxburgh's coloured figures of Indian plants 



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The living plants 



the garden are still known to the native gardeners as Justicia 

 asjperulay the name taught them by Wallich. There can be no 

 doubt ahout the identity of Roxburgh's Justicia vitellina and 

 AVallich's J", asperula. 



7. P. PULCHERRiMUS, T. Anders. Caule pubescente ; foliis oppositis, 

 petiolatis, subcoriaceis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, apice acuminatis vel ob- 

 tusis, basi in petiolum contractis, margine integerrimis ; racemis 

 simplicibus, elongatis, rare trichotomis, densifloris ; pedunculis oppo- 



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4-8-floris; calyce aequahter qumquepartit 



partito 



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laciniis ovalibus, apice acutis, 2 superioribus latioribus, labio inferiore 

 ad faucem bullato ; staminibus fertilibus 2, anantlieris 2 minutis, an- 

 theris bilocularibus, loculis sequalibus, linearibus, muticis, dorso 

 sparse hirsutis; capsula clavata, obtuse quadrangulari, sulcata. 



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