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124 - DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Justicia. — Y 
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nous parts ash-coloured ; of the young shoots hogi and green, 
— Leaves opposite, decussate, petioled, ovate-cordate, entire, ra- 
ther obtuse, a little wrinkled; from one to four inches long.—JPe- 
duncles axillary, often proliferous and much longer than the petio- a 
les, supporting two, or three flowers.— Flowers large, beautiful, - 
bright carmine colour. —Bractes, or floral leaves opposite, sessile, 
from ovate to lmear.—Calyr simple, divided almost to the base — 
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into five ensiform, equal portions.—Corol ; tube long, slender, curve ^ 
ed, villous, and somewhat twisted ; upper lip linear-oblong, recurv- 
ed over the tube, apex three-toothed, at the base some dark colour- 
ed spots ; under lip broad lanceolate, pointing directly to the earth, ur 
apex slightly two-toothed.— Filaments inserted in the mouth of 2 ; ] 
tube of the corol, nearly as long as its border, and, with the lower — 
lip, pointing downwards. Anthers double, linear, purple, with pale | 
coloured pollen.—Style as long as the stamens, and beyond the tube — 
taking the same direction with them. - Stigma slightly emarginate. 
— Capules pedicelled, with two seeds in each cell. 
AS tinctoria. R. 1 
Shrubby. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong. Flowers ee hel 
cicled, involucred. — An/Aers linear. 
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Folium tinctorium. Rumph. amb. vi. eae tab, xxii, f. 1. 
Beng. Batia-rung. i 
Found in the woods about Calcutta, in full lower in October. 
Stem scarcely any; branches numerous, sub-erect; young shoots. 
. jointed and swelled above the joints, round a little downy — Leaves > 
opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, covered with a little harsh pubes- — 
cence, two to three inches long. — Peduncles terminal, forming. the 
exterior axills, each supporting some few fascicles, of four to six- ses- 
sile fowers.— Bractes of the peduncles and pedicels opposite, those. 
of the flowers, or rather, the involucres subulate, opposite, sessile, b 
near oblong, cordate, entire, unequal ; the upper one being the larg- 
` est, and incumbent over the others, and the flowers they contain : iof. 
the calyx small.— Flowers sessile, large, of a beautiful deep pink co- 
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