41 



42 



176. JUSTICIA MONTANA. 



Stems many, striated, jointed, smooth, leaning on the ground, and 



rooting at the joints. Young shoots four-sided. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, oval, pointed, declining, running down 



the petiole, 

 broad 



g, and about 



* 



Peduncle four-sided. 



Bracks opposite, decussated, linear, acute, hairy, one-flowered; 



b 



calyx, like the large exterior one, but much smaller. 

 Flowers opposite, decussated, of a very pale blue, 



A small straggling jointed under-shrub ; a native of the moun- 

 tains. Flowers during the cold season. 



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177. JUSTICIA PULCHELLA. 



Eranthemum pulchellum. Andrew s hot. reposit. J. 88. 



Stems many, erect, or nearly so, 2-3 feet high. 



Branches round; young shoots four-sided, smooth. 



Leaves as in the former, but much larger, being from six to nine 



inches long, 

 much deeper and brighter green. 

 Spikes as in the former, but larger. 



broad 



They are of a 



b 



and stand much nearer one another. 

 Flowers large, numerous, of a deep bright blue. 



A very beautiful flowering shrub 

 idy places ; flowers*durinp* the. c 



178. GRATIOLA MONNIERIA 



Linn. spec, plant. 24. 



Sambrany-Tshittoo of the Telingas. 



Stems several, annual, creeping, round, jointed, very ramous, 



smooth, succulent. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, inverse-egg'd, wedge-form, or oblono-, 



smooth, entire, obtuse, fleshy, dotted with minute spots. 



Peduncles axillary, alternate, solitary, round, smooth, shorter than 



the leaf, one-flowered. 



Flowers blue. Bractes two, a a, awl'd, press on the calyx laterally. 

 Calyx five-leaved, the exterior three leaflets, bbb, large, oblong; 



the two interior, cc, small, linear ; all are concave, smooth, 



pointed, and permanent. 



Corol: 



bell 



Filaments four, two-powers. 

 Anthers two, cleft at the base, blue. 

 Stigma large, somewhat two-lob'd. 

 Capsule egg'd, two-cell'd, two-valv'd. 

 Seeds numerous. 



border five-parted, nearly equal. 



A 



of moist places, borders of b 



and the like. 



Flowering time the wet and cold seasons. 



* *J 'J " ~ ? — 



and applied externally for rheumatic pains. 



ixed 



179. GRATIOLA GRANDIFLORA 



Linn. spec, plant, edit. Will d enow I. p. 105. 



Stems several, annual, creeping, four-sided, smooth ; six to twelve 



inches long. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, sharp-saw'd, pointed, smooth. 



Peduncle axillary, about half the length of the leaf, erect, 



one-flower'd. 



Flowers light-blue. 



b 



Corol: tube cylindric ; upper lip entire ; under lip 



parted. 



Stamens: the two fertile filaments lodge under the upper lip, 



approach archwise; steril filaments rest on the under lip 



and adhere to it ; 

 united by pairs. 



and curved 



twin 



Capsule lanced 



A native of moist pi 



flowering during the wet and 



seasons. 



180. UTRICULARIA STELLARIS 



Linn, suppl. 86. Vahl symb. I. p. 6. 



Natsoo of the Telingas. 



Root conferva-like, floating in the water. I have always found 



small utriculi adhering to its filaments. 

 Scape sub-erect, simple, raceme-like, above the verticil of bladders, 



which rest on the surface of the water. 



Grows in sweet water ; appears and flowers during the rains. 



181. ROTTBOELLIA CORYMBOSA 



Linn . suppl. 114. 



Pedda Panoocoo of the Telingas. 



;ht, mostly naked, as the sheath 



i cover but little of them ; roui 



five feet hish, verv firm and no 



and 



Leaves few, from six to twelve inches long, margins sometimes 



fringed with a few hairs ; sheaths short and smooth. 



Spikes terminal, and from the exterior axills, several, peduncled. 



Peduncles thread-form, bowing, or erect, jointed near the base, and 



there bracted ; there are besides, chaffy, thread-form bractes 

 at the insertions of the peduncles. 



Flowers alternate in two rows, one on each side of the spikes. 



Calyx two-flowered, two-valved. 



within, and one male wi 



each 



floret, which has then three 



only an hermaph 



A native of low, rich, pasture ground ; grows 



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