Justicia, DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 127 
- This small tree or large shrub, is common over most pais 
of India, . Flowering time the cold season. 
- Trunk straight, bark pretty smooth, ash-coloured. Brandhon 
sub-erect, with bark like that of the trunk, but smoother, 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, long, taper- 
pointed, smooth on both sides, about five or six inches long, 
and one anda half broad. Spikes from the exterior axills, 
solitary, long-peduncled, the whole end of the branchlet form- 
ing a leafy panicle, flower-bearing portion short, and covered 
with large bractes. lowers opposite, large, with small fer- 
ruginous dots; the lower part. of both lips streaked with 
purple. : aiyiadis three-fold, opposite, one-flowered.. Exte- 
rior one of the three, large, ovate, obscurely five-nerved. 
Interior pair, much smaller, and sub-lanceolate; all are per- 
manent, Calyx five-parted to the base ; divisions nearly equal, 
Corol ringent. Tube short ; throat anaples upper lip vault- 
ed, emarginate ; lower lip vend; and deeply three-parted ; 
both streaked with purple. Fi/aments long ene under - 
vault of the upper lip. Anthers twin. 
Obs. The wood is soft, and esteemed a vry ff king 
charcoal for: peaesaicas: 
ey “19. J. sdetiinate R. | ‘ 
- Shrubby, erect ; bricnchas twigey, villoas, and damenisidi 
Leaves from ovate to oblong. Flowers in opposite fasciculi 
on the leafless branchlets, Anthers double, all calcarate, 
~. A tall, stout shrubby plant,a native of the country above 
Rangoon; and from thence introduced into the Botanic garden, 
where it is in flower during the month of eee and 
March. 
Stem straight to the sabe Higuibells in two jaa old pli 
as thick as a walking cane. | Branches regularly decussate, 
straight, all the younger shoots vil , and as they shoot into 
flower nearly I afle ov 
tire, pretty ae 
ers in numerous ‘Tatde, uipouies Satialen, of three to Be. aa 
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