Justigia.. | DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 12i- 
Root perennial, stemless. ` Leaves radical, sessile, ovate-oblong, 
crenate. Spikes ouem nijat: Corol ringent. Capsules many- 
seeded. 
Elytraria crenata. Vahl. Enum. plant. 1. iea 
Teling. Nella mura. 
Grows on pasture ground, generally under the shadé of trees. 
Flowering and seed time the wet, and cold season. 
Root perennial.— Stem none.— Leaves radical, spreading close on 
the ground, sessile, wedge-form or oblong, crenulated, rugose, woolly 
on the under side ; from six to twelve inches long. — Spikes radical, 
several, às long as, or longer than the leaves, ascending, imbricated : 
from tgp to. bottom, with small, rigid, pointed bractes, each of the 
superior ones embracing a flower, and two small lateral bract 
-Flowers small, white.— Calyz five-leaved , the superior leaflets idi t 
the largest.— Corol; tube cylindric, recurved ; upper lip vaulted, un= 
der lip broad, three-parted, with the divisions two-parted.—Cap- 
sules conical, eight-seeded.— Seeds kidney-form. 
Sect. 2. Corols bilabiate. Anthers double. ~ 
10. J. nasuta. Vahl. Symb. 2 . 15. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. 1. 90.. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate. Panicle axil- 
lary and terminal. Upper lip of the corol linear, and bidentate ; A 
der lip broad, three-lobed. 
"Pul-colii, Rheed. mal. 9. 135. t. 69. 
~ Sans. atearqut, Fere 
Beng. Jooi-patia. 
Teling. and Tamul. N aga-mulli. 
. This species I have only found in gardens : from whence i it origi- 
nally came, I cannot say. Flowers all the year round, but never ri- 
pens its seed, owihg, I imagine, to its being always propagated by - 
cuttings, layers, or slips. It grows to be a large thin shrub, of u 
or more feet in height. : 
Root woody, pameds Spo many, erect, ramous, ee uA c woo- 
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