Eranthemum. - PIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 111 
petioled, oval and oblong, pointed, running down the petioles, from 
three to four inches long, and about two broad.— Spikes many, ter- 
minal, erect, slender. Peduncles four-sided.— Bractes exterior op- 
posite, decussate, linear acute, hairy, one-flowered. Bracteoles two 
to each ilower, pressing laterally the calyx, and like the exterior, 
but much smaller.— Flowers opposite, solitary, decussate, very pale 
blue.—Calyx five-parted ; seg ments ;subulate.— Corol with a very 
long, and very slender tube, border of five equal obovate truncate, - 
` pale blue segments.— Filaments. short. Authers single, oblong, with- 
in the tube of the corol.—Style length. of | the tube of the corol. Stig- 
ma unequaliy bifid, appearing just without the tube. — Capsule li- 
near-obloug, compressed, pointed, two-celled, two-valved, opening 
across the partition, with an elastic jeik.— Seeds two in each, com- 
s pressed. 
9. E. pulchellum. Andrews. Repos. vol. i. 88. 
` Shrubby, erect. Leaves ventricose-oblong. Spikes terminal, im- 
bricated. Bractes ovate-oblong. 
Justicia pulchella. Roxb. Corom. Pl. 2. No. 177. 
Justicia nervosa. Vahl. En. Pl. 1. . 164. 
Beng. Kaila-Jati. 
Hind. Gool-sham. 
A most beautiful, stout, flowering shrub; a native of dry: uncul- 
tivated, shady | places, over various parts of India, flowering time the | 
cold season. It is generally in its full beauty in February. 
—— Stems many, erect, and ascending, or nearly so ; two or three feet 
high. Branches many ; young shoots four-sided, smooth.— Leaves _ 
Opposite, short-petioled, oblong, waved, pretty smooth ; from six to 
nine inches long, and from three to four broad ; they are of a much 
deeper and brighter green than in E. montana, which this resembles. 
Most.— Spikes terminal.— Bractes disposed as in the former, but. 
larger, broader, ciliate, and much sagre to each quac 
