Justicia, - DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ‘V17 
able recurvature, longer than the leaves, round, and smooth, 
Flowers opposite, remote, pure white. Bractes, three 
small ones to each flower, shorter than the calyx. Corol; 
tube long, straight, filiform ; upper lip of two, erect, wedge- 
shaped divisions united below the middle; under lip three- 
parted ; divisions broader and pointing downwards, a 
ments short. Anthers - without the tube. 
xb oi picta, Linn, sp. pl. ea: Witt 1. 88, 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolate, pointed. Ra- 
cemes sub-globular, T'ube of the corol widening, vertically 
compressed, margins of the segments of the border revolute. 
~Tsjude-maram. Rheed. Mai. 6. p. 111. t. 60. ? 
' Folium bracteatum, Rumph. Amb. 4, p. 73. t. 30. — 
A large, elegant, ramous shrub, common in gardens, and 
one of our finest ornaments. I never saw it wild; itis in _— 
er most part of the year. ll 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, odin chasis mooth- 
pointed, generally variegated with large white spots, though — 
sometimes of a uniform green, and we have a variety with 
the leaves uniformly ferruginous, Racemes terminal, short, 
erect, smooth, Flowers large, generally of a beautiful crim- 
son colour.  Practes opposite ; below three or four-flower- 
ed ; above one-flowered. Corol, throat compressed, divisions 
of the border soon after they expand becoming spirally revo- 
lute, with their inside wrinkled, and beautifully aaron 
vn small chrystalline specks. 
6. J. | piaichlate Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1.89. 
- Herbaceous, erect, four-sided, brachiate. Leaves sub-ses- 
cite, mci sps Racemes — 2 hopes eeciecil — 
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