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by many, long, ensiform, bractes.. Tube of the corol curved, and 
twisted ; upper lip three-dentate, under lip entiré. 
This beautiful shrub, is a native of the Silhet district, where it is 
called Toogee. Flowering time the cold season. 
. Stems erect, or nearly so, branches round arid smooth, and while t 
. young, swelled just above the insertion of the leaves; whole height 
from two to four feet.— Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolar, (that 
| is tapering equally at each” end) entire, acute, smooth ; from three 
or six inches long by one or two broad. —Flowers numerous, 
large and rosy, collected in numerous, t minal, clammy fasicles 
of from two to four each, and embraced - by i numerous, ensiform, , 
clammy bractes, like a common calyx, and longer than the p proper 
 perianths ; the whole forming a pretty large panicle at the. end of 
each branch —Calyx five-parted ; segments ensiform, smooth. ae 
vol; tube long, slender, curved outward, and like my J. speciosa, late- 
brosa, &c. has a half twist ; which, as in the orchidee, brings the lower 
lip uppermost. Border Wilibiife lips nearly equal, oblong ; the su- 
perior, in its inverted state, three-toothed ; the inferior entire.— 
Filaments from the mouth of the tube of the corol; shorter than the 
lips, and projecting straight over the under one. Anthers double, one 
at the end of the other, forming one straight liné ; the exterior half 
of the posterior one being attached to the apex of the E ad 
to o the nese of the erie anther. 
12. 3. speciosa. R. 
Perennial, erect. Leaves othe totaal: eis axillary and 
terminal, proliferous, few-flowered. Bractes opposite, foliaceous. 
‘Corol bilabiate, tube curved, and twisted ; LM equal ; upper « one 
tridentate, lower one bidentate. 
— Anative of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms during 
the cold season, -— is then 'one of the greatest ornaments a fis : 
forests. : ums i j ES 
Stems erect, je. bia few, and erect. Bark ste lig- 
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