134 _ DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Justicia, . 
‘Compare with J. parviflora. Retz. Obs. 5. p. 9. . 
A very beautiful, delicate, diffuse species, growing in shady 
places, Flowering time the cold season. 
Stems many, diffuse, filiform, round, smooth, jointed. 
Branches alternate. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, depend- 
ing, lanceolate, entire, smooth; the pair are generally une-. 
qual in size. Spikes axillary or terminal, sessile, much short- 
er than the leaves, secund, generally three together, the mid- 
dle one largest. Flowers very small, bright blue. Bractes, 
to each flower five, of different sizes, oval or lanceolate, with 
_ beautiful white, membranaceous margins. Coro/ ; upper lip 
entire, acute. Anthers, the lower one of each filament has a 
long obtuse horn from the — end. aaa four-seeded, 
two in each:cell, we 
- 81. J. lamifola. Kin. MSS. . frrericrereiitegd 9 
‘Whole plant very downy, procumbent, annual. Leaves’ 
oval, Spikes terminal, imbricated, Calyx four-leaved. 
Found in the vicinity of Calcutta, in uncultivated shady 
places. 
Root fibrous. Stems and branches very iil are. 
spreading close’on the earth, clothed with long soft hair, and 
down, somewhat’ glutinous, length from one to three feet.) 
Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oval, entire, clothed and gluti- 
nous like the branches; about an inch' long. » Spikes termi- 
nal, oblong, closely insbiiendotl with the bractes, and flowers. __ 
Flowers numerous, small, variegated with deep and light = 
purple. Bractes ovate, one-flowered, hairy, clammy. Calyx — 
four-leaved, the under leaflet with its apex bifid. Corolrin- a 
gent. Tube gibbous ; throat compressed ;\upper lip'twos 
parted, and streaked with deep purple ; under lip broad, and: 
. three-parted. /ilaments short, inserted into the mouth of the 
tube. Anthers twin, singly oval, and all equal. » Stigma of 
vo, broadish, mopreulints lobes, aie conical, —_ 
hg (tt. 
the — ofa Beleriand she stm of : 
