116 ces . DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. `. Justi — 
upper lip linear, reflexed, becoming revolute, apex bifid; under lip 
very broad, three-parted.—Anthers simple, linear, erect.— Stigma : 
rene ciliate.— Capsule two-seeded. PE 
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2. J. thrysiftora. R. be: 
Shrubby, erect, smooth. Leaves lanceolar, drooping. Racemes | 
terminal, flowers verticilled, Corol sub- bilabiate, clavate, ten or 
twelve-seeded. 7 20D 
"This beautiful stately species is a native of the interior part of 
Bengal, and from thence was. introduced by Dr. William Carey, 
into the Botanic Garden, where it flowers 1 in January and February ; 
and the seeds are ripe in March and April. 
Root ramous.— Stem straight, woody. Branches nearly str aight, ge 
neral ‘height from four to eight feet ; 3 woody parts round and cover- - 
ed with smooth ash-coloured bark ;. young shoots smooth, swelled 
at the insertion of the leaves, somewhat four-sided, and tinged with 
"dull puiple —Leaves opposite, ‘short-petioled, drooping, lanceolat, 
‘entire, smooth on both sides, of a firm texture, the upper side deep 
green, the under side pale ; length from four to eight inches, and - 
from one to two broad. -- Racemes - terminal, often solitary, though 
sometimes two, or even three-fold, ‘thyrsiform, shape of the flame - 
of a candle, crowded with large orange-coloured flowers.— Pedicels 
four-fold, verticilled, ‘approximate, one-flowered, ‘shorter than. the. 
divisions of the calyx.— Bractes three-fold, subulate ; the inner two 
permanent, and inserted on the base of the pedicels ; ‘the exterior 
_ single one larger and caducous.—Calyx simple, five-cleft, to the base 
divisions equal, straight, subulate, half the length of the tube of ! the 
Spral, oraal ghost an inch dong, Tubei incurred A nme lates 
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