120° Pe DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Justicia. 
Peestumba. " Rheed. mal. 9. t. 46. 
—A native of Coromandel, and generally found on old walls ; 
dower all the year. 
—Stem annual, erect, four-sided, hairy, with ascending, ese 
similar branches from the base ; whole height about a foot,— Leaves 
opposite, decussate, sessile, from oblong tolinear, obtuse; recurved, 
hairy ; from one or two inches long.— Spikes axillary, spreading out ` 
over the bosom of the leayes, and in general shorter than them; in 
luxuriant plants compound.-- Bractes opposite, small, lanceolate, hai- 
ry.— Flowers alternate, sessile, erect, upper lip purple, the rest white. 
, —Calyz of five, long, hairy, ensiform divisions,—Corol bilabiate. d 
Tube sub-cylindric, upper lip erect, broad, and trifid, under lip mare 
rower, recurved, and bidentate. Filaments projecting, straight, and 
about as long as the lips of the corol. Anthers simple, united and 
_ bearded at the base.— Capsule oblong, erect, hairy, length of the ca- 
site generally two in each cell, oblong, rough. 
= 
8. zi polysperma. R. 
„Annual, creeping, round, jointed. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, dow- 
ny. Spikes imbricated. Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, woody. 
Capsules with from twenty to thirty seeds. 
Beng. Chhota-micheta. E 
Is a native of Bengal ; appears during the cold season amongst 
grass, &c. uncultivated places. ; 
- Stems diffuse, or creeping, very ramous, six to Hage ty inches long, 
round, jointed, a little downy.— Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, e 
entire, downy.— Spikes terminal, and axillary, imbricated with opp: " 
site, decussated flowers, and bractes.— Flowers small, pale blue— — 
Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, the lower one broader a little than 
thé two lateral, ali are w oolly.— Calyx woolly.— Capsules [ness con- 
taining from iMt to thirty, < small Folio quis seeds. 
y E J. acaulis. Lin SP. Pl. ed heed E Reto Carn pi 
127. ; d 
