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opposite, of the flowers two, sessile, unequal, obovate, or ob- 
Jong-ventricose, embracing between them.one or two com- 
plete flowers, and one or two rudiments. Bractes (or inner 
calyx), ensiform, two to each flower, and rudiment. Flow- 
ers small, pale-pink. (Calyx five-parted, segments ensiform, 
Corol ; tube, length of the involucres, a little twisted, _Bor- 
der bilabiate ; upper lip linear, three-toothed ; under lip oval, 
and slightly emarginate. _Anthers two on each filament, 
purple, Capsule pedicelled, small, flat, round, villous, two- 
celled, with two thin round seeds in each cell, 
Obs. 1 have two varieties (if not distinct species) from the 
coast of Coromandel. In the first, the leaves are much nar- 
rower, and run more down on the petioles, and, with the 
bractes of the flowers, longer, more cuspidate, and ciliate; 
In the second variety, the leaves are cuneiform-lanceolate; 
and the bractes of the flower broad-ovate, short sett: 
and hairy. 
16. J. latebrosa. Kin. MSS. | 
_ Herbaceous; branches straggling, round, soilless ‘inh 
petioled, cordate-oblongy pointed. Tube of the corol twisted ; 
lips almost equal ; the upper one three-dentate, the lower one 
bidentate, Seeds solitary. 
It grows always among bushes, or under their males ina 
dry barren soil. Flowering time, the wet and cold seasons, 
_ Root perennial. Stem scarcely any ; branches many, 
straggling, weak, round, smooth, jointed, ramous, Leaves _ 
opposite, petioled, cordate-oblong, pointed, entire, smooth ; 
size very various. Flowers terminal, large, of a bright, red 
colour. Bractes numerous, lanceolate, Calyx single, Co- 
rol; iube twisted at the middle; lips equal, linear ; the up- 
per one three-toothed, and the under ove emarginate. —  Sta- 
pene = oe ee projecting — 
