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JUSTICE* guttata. 



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Dottedrflowered Justicia. 



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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. or d. AcanthacejE. *^ ' 



JUSTICIA. — SuprH, vol 4, fol. 309. ^ 



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J. guttata; caule subsimplici erecto, foliis oblongis utrlnque attenuato- 

 acutis subcrenulatis brevfe petiolatis Isevibus, racemo termmah, flonbus 

 fasciculatis, dentibus calycinis bracteisque linearibus, labio coroUae supe- 

 riore recto bilobo lateribus reflexo, laciniis labii inferioris ovatis obtusis 

 patentibus, antheris nudis carnosis erectis demiim divancatis : loculis 

 anticis parallelis gracilibus. — PTaZZicA plantcR asiaticx rariores, vol. 1. 



P. 24. tab. 28. 



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Our drawing of this curious plant was made at the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, to which establishment 

 it had been presented by the Honourable Court of Directors 

 of the East India Company. It is a tender stove perennial, 

 flowering in August, and increasing freely by cuttings. 



The only work in which it has before been described is 

 Br. Wallich's splendid publication upon a select number 

 of East Indian plants, now appearing in Quarterly Parts, 

 under the munificent patronage of the East India Company. 

 From this we learn that our species is a native of , the 

 Pundua mountains, on the eastern frontier of Bengal, where 

 it flowers in the early part of the year 



The marking of the corolla with deep blood-red spots 

 upon a greenish ground is exceedingly pretty: when closely 

 examined, it will be found to arise from the presence ot a 

 deep crimson colouring matter filling here and there the 



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• See fol. 1227. 



