mity. Stamens four, didynamous, standing with beautiful 
regularity. Anthers with the cells remote, but opposite 
and unequal in size, deep purple: the substance which 
unites these, whitish, fleshy. 
Of this handsome species I know nothing except. that it 
was imported by the Messrs. Sazruerns from Brazil to the 
Liverpool Botanic Gardens, in the stove of which noble 
Institution it flowered in September, 1828. Its nearest ally 
is, perhaps, Justicia oblongata of Linx and Orro, in the 
ninth number of their plants of the Berlin Garden; but that 
has truly lanceolate leaves, and much longer and more 
‘leafy bractee. Both are swollen at the jointings of the 
stem. 
J. nodosa is a plant worthy a place in every stove, on ac- 
count of the large size and beautiful colour of the flowers. 
* 
Fig. 1. Calyx with its Bractea and a young Bud. 2, Anther.—Magnified. 
