130 _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Justicia, 
Calyx of five linear-lanceolate, acute segments. Corol 
ringent ; upper lip vaulted, with a bidentate apex ; under lip 
broad, and three-cleft. .Anthers double; lower lobe with a 
long curved, sharp spur. Capsule oblong, four-seeded, very 
protuberant at the seeds, Seeds nearly spherical, rugose. 
Obs. In the foliage, spikes, flowers, and capsule, this. spe- 
_ Cles is exceedingly like J. Betonica, which however, is always 
a tall, erect plant, with coloured bractes, while this is very, 
bushy, spreads on the ground, and strikes root abundantly, 
at the joints ; the bractes also are narrower, and greener, ... 
"23, J. tranquebariensis. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1.99... 
Herbaceous, Leaves round, or broad-cordate, Spikes, tet- 
minal, four-sided, occasioned by four rows of roundish. ciliate. 
bractes. Flowers solitary, in two rows on the fore-part of 
the spikes. Anthers calcarate. Common amongst bushes on. 
a dry barren soil, over the coast of Coromandel, Flowering 
time the wet and cold seasons. 
Roots perennial, somewhat granulated. Stems in young 
plants erect, in old ones uncertain; Sranches annual, small, 
straggling, round, a little downy, jointed, and swelled above _ 
the joints, from one to two feet long, Leaves opposite, short- 
petioled, oval, or round, entire, pretty smooth. Spikes ter- 
minal, peduncled, long, erect, generally . four-sided, gecasion- 
ed by four rows of orbicular, short- opposite, cil 
bractes ; ; besides these there are a pair of small ointed 
which TESS the calyx Jaterally, Flowers a mixture. of. ‘sale, 
yellow, and red; standing in the axills of the two rows of. 
bractes that occupy the fore-part of the spikes ; on the back, 
part they are generally wanting. Calyzx single, Corol 3 up~ 
per lip emarginate, erect ; under lip broad, three-cleft. An- 
thers double, the imermenn calearate, Seeds two in sites 
cell, bristly. 
