Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 119 
6. J. paniculata. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 89. 
Herbaceous, erect, four-sided, brachiate. Leaves sub-sessile, lan- 
ceolate. Racemes terminal ; flowers secund erect. Corol bilabiate ; 
lips linear, revolute. Anthers coalesced, and bearded at the base.— 
Capsules linear, many-seeded. 
Beng. Kala-megh, Kalup-nath, or Muha-tita; the last name im- 
plies King of bitters, and a very powerful, much esteemed: one it is. 
Kreat is the name by which it is known on the Malabar coast, 
&c. where it is much used in medicine, and : is the sone of the fa- 
mous Nbstrum, called Drogue amere. 
. Cara-canirum. Rheed. mal. 9. . p. 109. t be 
` Teling..Nella-vemoo. — — 
` A native of dry ground, under tlie shade of trees, bushes, &c. Flow- 
ering and seed time, the wet and cold season. 
Stem erect, generally annual, at least down to the root, branchy ; 
slender, four-sided, jointed, smooth, one to two feet high. Branch- 
es opposite, cross-armed, four-sided, spreading.— Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; two or three inches long. 
—Racemes terminal, and from the exterior axills, horizontal, long 
secund, four-sided.— Flowers remote, rose-coloured, long-pedicel- 
led, alternate, erect, downy.— Bractes, a large, exterior, opposite 
pair ; within the flower-bearing one there are two smaller, embrac- 
ing the base of the pedicels.— Corol, bilabiate. Tube recurved; 
lips linear, and reflected ; the; superior broadest, three-toothed ; the 
inferior two-toothed.— Filaments as long as the lips of the corol, 
Projecting, hairy. Anthers very flat, obovate, firmly united at the 
base, and three-bearded .— Capsule erect, Pics bury: — Seeds three 
or four i in cach cell, n s ; 
fe? echioides. lon Sp. Pl. ed. Wild. 1. p: 87. | me 
Aunual, erect, four-sided, hairy. Leaves sessile, decussate, ob- 
long and linear.- Spikes axillary, recurved over the bosoms of Le i 
ves, secund. Capsule oblong, with diu verrucose seeds. - 
