Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. eg es 117 
—Style scarcely so long as the stamina. Stigma entire.—Capsule 
liaear-clavate, smooth.—Seeds five or six in each cell. 
Obs. This is one of the most beautiful species of Justicia I have 
yet met with in India, even wen only in foliage. It grows readily 
from cuttings. 
3.9. vitellina: R: 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves Wivàd-langopiar; reflexed, smooth. Ra- 
cemes terminal, cylindric: ; flowers opposite; below fascicled, about _ 
the middle tern, and above single; sub-ringent, with ample-campa- - 
 mulate throat. Capsule linear, few-secded. — . 
A native of the hilly parts of pieces where it blossoms i in Fe- 
bruary and March. dpa 
Stems scarcely any; but several, erect, stiff, short deren A | 
their ultimate tender divisions four-sided, the angles sharp, and rather 
tough ; whole height of full grown plants about three feet.— Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, reflexed, from oblong to- lanceolar, -entire 
and pretty smooth ; length from two to four inches, by from one to two 
broad.— Racemes terminal, solitary, rigidly erect, cylindric; from 
three to six inches long. Rachis four-angled.— Flowers rather small, 
colour yellowish pink, on the lower part of the raceme in opposite 
fascicles, about its middle in threes on common very short peduncles 
and pedicels ; above single.— Bractes to the single flowers solitary, 
_ to thelower three. —Calyz single, five-parted ; divisions broad-subu- 
late. —Corol with the tube shorter than the calyx, and an ample- 
campanulate throat ; border sub-bilabiate ; upper lip projecting almost 
horizontally, bifid ; lower lip broad, and three-parted. — Filaments 
much curved, hairy near the base.  Anthers single, linear, lodged 
under the upper lip of thecorol — Germ two-celled, about four ovula 
in each.—Stigma simple, obtuse. — Capsule linear, smooth. 
Iur R. i: 
oH erect, smooth. Lessespposites ovate-lanceolate.. «ii 
