Tas. 4248. 
ASYSTASIA CoROMANDELIANA, 
Coromandel Asystasia. 
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE£.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla hypogyna, sub-infundibuliformis, 
limbi quinquefidi laciniis subzequalibus, postica concaviuscula. Stamina 4, 
coroll tubo inserta, inclusa, didynama ; filamenta basi per paria connata ; an- 
there biloculares, loculis angustis, parallelis, basi callosis v. appendiculatis. 
Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma capitatum, bilo- 
bum v. bidentatum. Capsula unguiculata, tetragona, bilocularis, tetrasperma, 
loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina discoidea, retinaculis sub- 
tensa.—Herbe v. fruticuli debiles, in Asia tropica crescentes ; foliis oppositis, 
racemis spiciformibus, secundis, axillaribus v. terminalibus, bracteis bracteolisgue 
exiguis equalibus. Endl. 
Asystast, Coromandeliana; caule ramoso ramis diffusis, foliis cordato-ovatis 
supra lineolato-asperis, racemis axillaribus elongatis secundis strictis, caly- 
cibus acuminatis. 
Asystasta Coromandeliana. Nees, in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 89. 
Rvewwia Coromandeliana. Herb. Madras.—Wall. Cat. n. 2399. a. ex parte, et 
nm. 2401. a. b. cx parte. 
JUSTICIA Gangelica. Linn. Amen. Ac. v. 4. p. 290. excl. omn. syn. 
8. RugLura secunda. il. Cat. n. 2401. d. 
Rverta intrusa. Vahl, Symb. v. 1. p. 45. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 367. 
y- RUELLIA secunda. Vahl, Symb. v. 3. p. 84. Spr. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 824. 
RUELLIA obliqua. Herb. Wight. Wall. Cat. n. 2399. d. 
A frequent plant in India, according to Dr. Wallich ; and the 
Wonder is that it has not before now been introduced ito our 
collections. The Kew Gardens owe the possession of it to 
Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road. It flou- 
rishes in stove-heat, and flowers throughout the autumn. The 
genus Asystasia (of the meaning of the word as applicable to the 
plants that bear it, I am ignorant) was founded by Blume on : 
Java species, and Nees has abstracted ten others from the ol 
tuellia, and among them the handsome 4. Neesvana, figured in 
the ‘ Pl. Asiat. Rar’ t. 83; and to which genus, I presume, may 
AUGUST 1sT, 1846. 
