po (0 UPIANDRIA moxoetsra. - Justicia 
Nery common. on pasture ground over the coast of Coromandel, 
flowering most part of the year. 
Root often perennial.— Stems many, spreading, jointed, fve- 
ed, often rooting at the joints, extremities sub-erect ; size very various, 
but generally from six to twelve inches long.—Leaves opposite, sub- - 
sessile, from round to linear-lanceolate, entire, a little downy ; size 
various.—Spikes terminal, erect, four-sided.— Flowers opposite, — 
decussate, small, rose colour.-— Bracies three-fold, lanceolate. —Ca- 
- dyx; upper divisions very minute.—Corol ; tube short; upper lip erect, — 
two-cleft; under lip broad, three-parted.— Nectary a yellow ring — 
Sarrounding the base of the germ.— Anthers double; the lower dt 
carate or sharp-pointed.— Stigma slightly bifid.— Capsules four MN | 
ed, two in each cell. 
Obs. When this plant grows in wet places, it secms doge 
another | species, being many times larger, nearly erect, with linear- 
lanceolate leaves. — 1 believe Dy. Konig described this variety : as s 
distinct species, under the name of J. juncea, or graminea, 
29. J. quinqueangularis. Kön. MSS. 
~ Perennial ina dry soil; branches five-sided. Leaves sessile, lanceo- 
late. Spikes terminal. Bractes linear. Capsules rather larger t ‘than 
the bractes, four-seeded. 
A native of the borders of rice-fields about Samulcota. Iti is but 
little removed from procumbens, when growing in the same soil. zu 
“$0. J. picliduta: Corom. Pi. EE IAS ees oe? 
Herbaceous, diffuse. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar. ikes 
: sessile, secund. Bractes five-fold, broad, white, membrane-border- 
ed : lower anthers calcaraté, 
Compare with J. . parviflora. Retz. Obs. 5. p... 
_ Avery beautiful, delicate, diffuse species, growing in shady ae 
Flowering time the cold season. 
Stems many, diffuse, Bliform, round, smooth, jointed, Bode. : 
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