128 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Justicia. 
appearing sub-verticelled, over the slender, leafless twigs, 
sub-sessile, pale rose colour.. Bractes numerous, slender, 
and very downy. Calyx five-parted; segments ensiform, vil- 
lous, Corol ringent ; tube gibbous near, the base ; upper lip 
sub-lanceolate, concave, erect ; under lip ‘broad and. three- 
lobed. Filaments nearly as long as the upper lips ,apex 
much enlarged. .4nthers two, on each filament, all with a 
calcarate base.- Germ oblong, sitting in a large, glandular, 
yellow ring. State the length of the stamens, Stigma simple, 
20. J. i tee * Linn. sp, pl. ed. Willd. 1. 87. = 
_ Shrubby, diffuse, smooth. Leaves narrow-lanceolar, ‘Spikes 
terminal, sub-verticelled. _ Lower anthers calcarate, 
Vada-Kodi. Rheed, Mal. 9. p. 79. t. 42. 
Gendarussa. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 70. t. i 
_ Beng. Sugut-mudun, ee 
_ A handsome shrub, | I have never met with it mit ‘batt In 
gardens it is common, and grows readily from slips and cut- 
tings ; it isin flower during the wet season chiefly, Iam told 
it is indigenous on the Malay Islands, 
Stem seeacel y any. Branches numerous, long, aenien 
except when kept cut, they are then more erect. Bark of 
the young parts generally dark purple, and very smooth ; 
in some varieties green.. Leaves oppesies short-petioled, lan- 
ceolar, obtuse, frequently a little scolloped, smooth; nerve 
and veins dark purple, from three to six, inches long, and 
_ from half an inch to an inch broad. Spikes terminal, erect, 
yerticelled, Anthers double, the lower ones have a spur-like: 
process projecting downwards and outwards, 
21. J. Betonica, Linn, sp. p!. ed. Willd, 1. 96, 
Shrubby, Leaves sub-ovate. Spikes terminal. Bractes 
white, with green veins, Corol ringent, Anthers two-lobed,. 
the | lower calcarate, Seeds turbercled, two in each cell, 
» Willdenow. has speiled this name. Linnzeus wrote it am 
darussa, which is nearer the truth. Pe thee: 
