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Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 431 
‘two are calycine.— Flowers scarcely longer than the bractes, dull white, 
with a few rosy veins on the centre of the lower lip.— Calyx of five 
linear-lanceolate, acute segments.—Corol ringent ; upper lip vaulted, 
with a bidentate apex ; under lip broad, and three-cleft.—Anthers 
double ; ; lower lobe with a long curved, sharp spur.— Capsule ob- 
long, four-seeded, very protuberant at the seeds. — Seeds nearly sha- 
rical, rugose. 
Obs. In the foliage, spikes, flowers, and capsules, this species is 
exceedingly like J. Betonica, which however, is always a tall, erect 
plant, with coloured bractes, while this is very bushy, spreads on 
the ground, and strikes root abundantly t Neuss the bractes 
23. J. tranguebariensis. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. 1.99. = 
Herbaceous. Leaves round, or broad-cordate. Spikes terminal, 
four-sided, occasioned by four rows of roundish ciliate bractes. Flow- 
ers solitary, in two rows on the fore-part of the pend Anthers cal- 
` carate, 
Common amongst bushes on a dry barren soil, over the coast of 
E andei: Flowering time the wet, and cold season. 
Roots perennial, somewhat granulated.—Stems 1n young plants 
erect, in old ones uncertain; branches annual, small, ‘straggling, 
round, a little downy, jointed, and swelled above the joints, from . 
one to two feet long.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, orround, 
entire, pretty smooth.—Spikes terminal, peduncled, long, erect, ge- 
nerally four-sided, occasioned by four rows of orbicular, short-pe- 
toled, opposite, ciliate bractes; besides these there are a pair of 
small pointed ones which press ihe calyx laterally.— Flowers a mix- 
ture of pale yellow, and red; standing in the axills of the two 
Tows of bractes that occupy the fore part of the spikes; on the back | 
part they are generally wanting.— Calyx single.—Corol; upper lip 
emarginate, erect ; under lip broad, three-cleft. Anthers doni n. 
lowermost calcarate. — Seeds two in each cell, bent. EU 
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