Justicia, DIANDRIA’ MONOGYNTA, Ab 
William Carey, into the Botanic garden, where if flowers in 
January and February, and the seeds are ripe in March and 
“April. 
Root ramous, Stem straight, woody. ° Branches «nearly 
straight, general height from four to eight feet ; woody parts 
round, and covered with smooth ash-coloured bark ; young 
shoots smooth, swelled at the insertion of the leaves, somewhat 
four-sided, and tinged with*dull purple. -Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, drooping, lanceolar, entire, smooth on both | 
sides, of a firm texture, the upper side deep green, the under 
side pale; from four to eight inches long, and from one to 
two broad. Racemes terminal, often-solitary, though some- 
times two, or even three-fold, thyrsiform, shape of the flame 
of a candle, crowded with large orange-coloured flowers. Pe- . 
dicels four-fold, verticelled, approximate, one-flowered, short- 
er than the divisions of the calyx. “Bragtes three-fold, subu- 
late; the inner two permanent, and ‘inserted on the base of the 
pedicels ; the exterior single one larger and caducous.” Calyx 
simple, five-cleft, to the base divisions equal, straight, subu- 
late, half the length of the tube of the corol. Coro? about an 
inch’ bog. - Tube incurved, compressed, laterally somewhat 
villotts.i » Border bilabiate'; ‘upper lip broad, projecting 
forward, deeply emarginate ; under lip of three, 
efiial: deeply-divided, ovate, acute divsiteal Anthers even 
with the upper lip of the corol, dark brown, oval, an open- 
ing on the under side for the discharge of the white -pollen, 
and studded on the back: Style scarcely so long as the sta- 
mina,. Stigma entire, Capsule roomier) — Seeds 
five or six in each cell. 
« Obs. This is one of the most beautiful species of Seistibia 
Phave yet met with in India, even pics! pete in vas € At : 
pbs — nace ree a 
a rubby, ’ broad-lanceolar, poheked: smooth. | 
Rihierh terinina eine ; a opposite ; below) fas” 
