Justicia. _ DIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, a 
ways three-cleft, as also the sub-divisions. Peduncles and 
pedicels short,’ round, a little downy. © Bractes minute, 
Flowers small, white. Corol with a long, slender, compressed 
tube; wnder lip broad, three-cleft; upper lip erect, linear, 
sides reflected, apex bifid. Nectary,@ fleshy ring surround- 
ing the base of the germ. Anthers —_— the tube, twin. 
_— I have not seen.it. 
Obs. Milk boiled on the roots, is reckoned, iby the Indian 
sbieatdili aphrodisiacal, and as such often employed ; for no 
medicines are more sought after by the natives of India than 
those which are imagined to belong to that class, 
The roots rubbed with lime juice, and pepper, are used, 
and often with good effect, to cure the ring worms, or Herpes 
miliaris, which in India is a most troublesome a and 
igh common, , 
They are also used for the bite of poisonous snakes ; hence 
the Telinga and Tamul name Naga mulli, or Jasmine of 
the Cobra de capella; Naga is therefore prefixed to the 
name of the most of their antidotes, or medicines supposed to 
destroy the effect of poison, and occurs very often in their 
writings, For likethe ancient physicians of Greece, Rome, &e. 
those of India at this day, make poisons, and their ashton 
a very chief part of their studies ; but from the seeming inac- 
tivity of a very large share of thera, we may safely conclude, 
that their practice is equally frivolous with that of the an- 
cients, and ought to be discouraged as much as possible ; be- 
cause at least, they pee the application of more eflica’ 
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