Justicia, . DIANDRIA MONOGYNIAy 123 
inches long. Peduncles axillary, often. proliferous. and 
much longer than the petioles, supporting two, or three flow- 
ers. Flowers large, beautiful, bright earmine colour. Bractes 
or floral leaves opposite, sessile, from ovate to linear, Calya, 
simple, divided almost to the base into five ensiform, equal. 
portions, Corol; tube long, slender, curved, villous, and 
somewhat twisted ; wpper lip linear-oblong, recurved over the 
tube, apex three-toothed, at the base some dark coloured 
spots ; under lip broad-lanceolate, pointing directly to the 
earth, apex slightly two-toothed. Filaments inserted in the 
mouth of the tube of the corol, nearly as long as its border, 
and, with the lower lip, pointing downwards, _ 4nthers dou- 
ble; linear, purple, with pale coloured pollen. Style as long 
as the stamens, and beyond the tube taking the sanie direction. 
with them. Stigma slightly emarginate, Capsules a 
with two seeds in each cell, eet t ory 
O81 bi ok bt 
13.5. tinctoria. R. intel 
Shrubby. Leaves siioleds oamnebiiadia ilies il 
minal, fascicled, involucred, Aatherslinear, 8 
Folium tinctorium. Rumph. Amb, vi. 51. tab. xxii, fk diy 
_ Beng. Batia-rung. 
Found in the woods about Calcutta, in full flower. in 
October. te hawaii 
Stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, deloverenty 3 young 
shoots jointed, and swelled above the joints, round, a little. 
downy. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, covered 
with a little harsh pubescence, two to three inches: long. | 
Peduneles terminal, forming the exterior axills, each support 
ing some few fascicles, of four to six sessile. flowers. Bractes’ 
Rie sessile, ies those of the oieceneten . 
: ae " | saliieit 4 cover ee Peacicle of 
Fiala beenel sanull. Calyz five-toothed. Corol s 
tube, Heian of he Jargest involucres, filiform, having a 
