120 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Justicia, 
Root perennial. Stem none. Leaves radical, spreading 
close on the ground, sessile, wedge-form or oblong, crenulat- 
ed, rugose, woolly on the under side; from six to twelve 
inches Jong. Spikes radical, several, as long as, or longer 
than the leaves, ascending, imbricated from top to bottom, 
with small, rigid, pointed bractes, each of the superior: ones 
embracing a flower, and two small lateral bractes, Flow- 
ers sinaidp white. Calyx five-leaved, the superior leaflets 
nouch the largest. Corol ; tube cylindric, recurved; upper 
lip vaulted, under lip broad, three- parted, with the divisions — 
two-parted, Capsules conical, tae Seeds. ws ong 
form. . | ae © 
“SECT. IL. “Corols Fiabiate™ either? double. — 
10. J. nasuta. Vahl. Symb. 2. 15, Linn, sp. pl. k “Witla. 
1. 90. 
Shrubby, emct, Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, Panicle 
axillary and terminal. Upper lip of the. corol, linear and, 
bidentate ; under lip broad, three-lobed, 
;Pubeolli. teheee Mal. 9. 135. t,.69. 
“Teling. and Tamu, = ee ik at 
This species 1 have only found i in garde is; fron whence 
it originally came, I cannot say. Flowers all the year round, 
but never ripens its seed, owing I imagine, to its being always 
.propagated by cuttings, layers, or slips. . It grows to be a 
large thin shrub, of five or more feet in height. _ ' 
Root woody, ramous, Stems many, erect, ramous, the old 
woody parts round, and covered with pretty. smooth ash-co- 
loured bark ; the tender branches, and young: shoots jointed, 
smooth, and ohalctaly six-seeded. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
broad-lanceolate, point obtuse, above smooth, below a little 
“downy, entire ; from two to four inches long, and from one to — 
