122 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Justicia, 
This beautiful shrub is a native of the Silhet district, where 
it is called Toogee. . Flowering time, the cold season; = >) 
Stem: erect, or nearly so; branches round and smooth; and — 
while young, swelled just above the insertion of the leaves ; 
whole height from tw® to four feet. Leaves opposite, petiol- 
ed, lanceolar, (that is tapering equally at each end) entire, 
acute, smooth; from three to six imches long, and one or two 
broad. Flowers numerous, large and rosy, collected in nu- 
merous terminal, clammy, fascicles of from two tofour each, 
and. embraced. by numerous, ensiform, clammy bractes, like 
a common calyx, and longer than the proper perianths ; the 
whole forming a pretty large panicle at the end ofeach 
branch. | Calyx. -five-parted ; segments . ensiform, smooth, 
Corol ; tube long, slender, curved outward, and like my’ J.- 
speciosa, latebrosa, &c. has a half twist ; which, as inthe er- 
chidee, brings the lower lip uppermost... Border bilabiate, 
lips nearly equal, oblong ; the superior, in its inverted state, 
three-toothed ; inferior entire. Filaments from the mouth of 
the tube of the corol, shorter than the lips, and. projecting 
straight over the under one. ' Anthers double, one at the end 
of the other, forming one straight line ; the exterior half of the 
posterior one being attached to the apex of the haeoaniag iat 
to the base of the exterior anther, 
12. J.:speciosa, R. 
Perennial, erect. Leaves ovidedtiie ta Secinalty ae 
lary and terminal, proliferous, few-flowered. Bractes oppo- 
site, foliaceous, Corol bilabiate, tube curved, and twisted; 
hps equal ; upper one tridentate, lower one bidentate. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms 
during the cold season, and is then one not the ere 
— of the forests. 
~ Stems erect, juinted. Branches few, vee ence Bark of 
the. pee parts ash-coloured ; of the young shoots smooth 
and gre mn. Leaves opposite, alates petioled, ovate-cor- 
ire, piichenmetnilemenkiads $form geste. for 
