iB: - _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, — Justicia.. 
. Kreat is the name by which it is known on the» Malabar; 
coast, &c. where it is much used in medicine, and is the bitter. 
of the famous Nortrum; called Drogue amere.. 
_Cara-canirum. Rheed. Mal, 9, p. 109. t. 5. 6. . 
_ Teling. Nella-vemgoo.: ‘. 
_A native of dry ground, under the shade of trees, bushes, 
&e. Flowering and seed time, the wet and cold seasons. 
Stem erect, generally annual, at least down to the 00's: 
branchy ; slender, four-sided, jointed, smooth, one to two feet 
high. Branches opposite, cross-armed, four-sided, spread- 
ing. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire,, 
smooth; two or three inches long. - Racemes terminal, and. 
from the exterior axills, horizontal, long secund, four-sided, 
Flowers remote, rose-coloured, long-pedicelled, alternate, 
erect, downy. Bractes a large, exterior opposite pair; within 
the flower-bearing one there are two smaller, embracing: the, 
base of the pedicels. Corol bilabiates. Tube recurved ; lips, 
linear, and reflected ; the superior broadest, three-toothed; 
the inferior two-toothed. Filaments as long as the lips of the: 
corel, projecting, hairy. Anthers very flat, obovate, firmly 
united at the base, and three-bearded. Capsule erect, sub=. 
ego sealer meee or pefour. i in each cell, cylindric. 
= Fa J. wlisblioa Pree aie ed, Willd. 1. ‘P- 87. 
_ Annual, erect, four-sided, hairy. Leaves s 
oblong and linear. Spikes axillary, recurved ae: 
soms of the leaves, secund, = _ with four, Mere, 
_ Tucose seeds, 
Pee-tumbat Riieed, Mal. 9. 1, 46. 
. A native of Coromandel,and generally found on old walls ; 
in flower all the year. 
_ Stem annual, erect, four-sided, hairy, esdhiahailbeas ee op- 
posite, —- branches from the base; whole ten pie 
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