128 ‘DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Justicia. - 
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This small tree or large shrub, is common over most parts of | 
India. Flowering time the cold season. E 
Trunk straight, bark pretty smooth, ore R Ey sub- 
erect with bark like that of the trunk, but smoother.— Leaves oppo- 
site, short-petioléd, broad-lanceolar, long, taper-pointed, smooth on- 
both sides, about five or six inches long, and one and a half broad. 
_— Spikes from the exterior axills, solitary, long-peduncled, the whole ; 
end of the branchlet forming a leafy panicle, flower-beari ing portion 
short, and covered with large bractes.—Flowers opposite, large, 
with small ferruginous dots; the lower part of both lips.streaked — 
with purple. — Bractes three- fold, opposite, one-flowered. Exterior 
one of the three, large, ovate, obscurely five-nerved. Interior pair, : 
much smaller, and sub-lanceolate ; all are permanent. — Calyx five-, 
parted to the base; divisions ibd equal— Corol rimgeut. Ti ube 
short ; throat auper upper lip vaulted, emarginate ; lower lip dor ee 
and deeply three-parted; both streaked with parie — Filamenta: es 
long, resting under the vault of the upper lip. Anthers twin. 
Obs. The wood is soft, and esteemed very fit for making charcoal 
for por pow der, 
19. J. decussata. "ut : ics tbe 
Shrubby, erect ; branches twiggy, villous, and Jeca, eaves 
from ovate to oblong. Flowers in opposite. fasciculi on the leafless | 
branchlets.: Anthers-double, all calcarate. 
A tall, stout shrubby plant, a native of the country aide Ran- 
goon ; and from thence introduced into the Botanic Garden, where a 
it is in flower during the mouth of February and March. 
Stem straight to the top of the plant, ligneous ; in two yéars, od | 
plants as thick as a "walking cane. Branches regularly Lam. 
straight, all the younger shoots villous, and as they shoot : into flow- 
er nearly leafless.— Leaves | short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, pret- 
ty smooth ; from three to twelve inches long — Flowers in numer- 
ous, a little opposite . fascicles, of three to six, appearing subverti- 
celled, over the slender, leafless twigs, subsessile, pale rose colour.- pss 
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