(1870) 
Justicia PIcTA (Z.) LURIDO-SANGUINEA. 
BLoopy-vEINED JUSTICIA. 
JHE HE eg ebb 
Class and Order. 
Dianprisa Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. simplex vel duplex. Corolla irregularis vel subregularis. 
Caps. 2-valvis 2-locularis : dissepimentum valvis contrarium : 
retinaculis seminum uncinulatis. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
*** calyce simplict, corollis bilabiatis: labits divisis. 
Justicia picta ; racemis axillaribus terminalibusque, floribus 
verticillatis, foliis ellipticis pictis. Vahl Knum. 1. p. 128. 
Symb. Bot. 2. p. 14. Hort. Kew. alt. 1. p. 37. 
Justicia picta. Sp. Pl. 21. Willd. 1. p. 86. Lour. Cochin. 
p. 24? Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 28. 
Tssupe-marAM. Rheede Malab. 6. p. 111. t. 60. 
Fotium practeatom. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 73. t. 30. 
PerictymMenuM indicum foliis maculatis latioribus laurinis. 
Burm. Seyl. p. 186? 3 ) | 
(a.) alba; humalior, foliis macula alba sinuata pictis. 
(8.) lurido-sanguinea ; excelsior, foliis lurido-sanguineis 
venosissimis. ! 
(y.) ignea ; foltts macula suaverubente et quastignea pictis. — 
At first sight the present plant will hardly be acknowledged 
as a variety of Justicia picta, which has been so long known 
in our stoves, but whoever will take the trouble to examine 
the figure in the Hortus Malabaricus, and the description of 
Rumpuuvs, compared with that of Vant, will perceive the 
difficulty of fixing upon any true specific characters, which 
: . 3 may 
