on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 209 
among the hills near Mungger, from which I cannot distinguish 
either the J. Betonica or J. ramosissima of Dr. Roxburgh by any 
mark on which I can place reliance. Specimens of all the 
three have been deposited in the collection of the East India 
Company. Although I have no doubt of the plant, which I 
found, being the Bem Curini, its antheræ are so different from 
the character of them given by Willdenow and in the Encyclo- 
pédie, where the loculi are described as united, that our plant is 
either different from theirs, or they have placed it very erro- 
neously among the Monanthere. I must indeed remark, that 
the identity of our plant, with that of Linnæus in the Flora Zey- 
lanica, is by no means clear; because he describes the bracteæ 
opposite, but with us they are quaternæ. If this distinction be 
sufficient to separate the species, then the plant of Linnæus be- | 
ing the undoubted Justicia Betonica, we may adopt for ours 
Dr. Roxburgh's name J. ramosissima, transferring to it the Bem 
Curini, of which I shall now give a description from the 
plant in its wild state, those of Dr. Roxburgh having been cul- 
tivated. [ 
Frutex duos pedes alta, diffusa. Radix lignosa, digitum crassa. 
Rami subpubescentes, sulco gemino utrinque inter folia de- 
currente angulati, internodiis basi incrassatis. Folia lan- 
ceolato-ovata, subrepanda, dentata, costata, venosa, utrin- 
que pubescentia, scabriuscula ; superiora acuta, inferiora 
obtusiuscula.  Petiolus brevissimus, anceps, acutangulus, 
subtus convexior, annulo integerrimo ramum cingens. 
Spice nunc ramulo brevissimo diphyllo axillari insidentes, tunc 
rami majoris apicem terminantes, intermedia aliquando 
iterum trifariam divisa, folio longiores, erectæ, subsecundæ, 
quadrifariam imbricatz bracteis ovatis, acutis, persistenti- 
bus, albis, nervis viridibus reticulatis; quarum dorsales 
simplices, 
