11$ DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Justicia. | 
terminal, and axillary. > Flowers remote. Coro? with filiform tube, 
and bilabiate border. - | 
This very pretty plant, a native of the great Andaman, was 
broughtfrom thence to the Botanic Garden, by Capt. Stokoe: Flow- 
ering time the beginning of the hot season. 
Stemerect,round, smooth, while young swelled above the inser- 
tions of theleaves.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, waved, 
‘smooth and shining on both sides.—Spikes numerous, terminal, and 
axillary, spreading, with a considerable recurvature, longer than . 
the leaves, round, and smooth.—Flowers opposite, remote, pure 
white.— Bractes, three small ones to each flower, shorter than the : 
calyx.—Corol ; tube long, straight, filiform ; upper lip of two, erect, 
wedge-shaped divisions united below the middle; under lip three- 
parted ; divisions broader and pointing downwatds-=- Filaments 
short. Anthers just. without the tube. 
s iih: Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 88. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolate, pointed. Racemes, sub- 
globular. Tube of the corol widening, vertically opis margins 
of the segments of the border revolute. 
Tsjude-maram. Rheed. mal. 6. p. 111. t. 60. 
Folium bracteatum. Rumph. amb. 4. p. 73. t. 30. 
A large, elegant, ramous shrub, common in gardens, and one of our 
finest ornaments. I never saw it wild; is in flower most part ofthe year. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, smooth-pointed, - 
generally variegated with large white spots, though sometimes of a 
uniform green, and we have a variety with the leaves uniformly ferru- 
ginous.— Racemes terminal, short, erect, smooth.— Flowers large, 
generally of a beautiful crimson colour.— Bractes opposite ; below 
three or four-flowered ; above one-flowered.—Corol, throat com- 
pressed, divisions of the border soon after they expand becoming 
spirally revolute, with their inside wrinkled, and — oma- | 
mented with small- chrystalline: specks, - 
