on the Ilortus Malabaricus, Fart II. 209 



among the hills near Mungger, from which I cannot distinguish 

 either the J. Betonica or J. ramosissima of Dr. Roxburgh by any 

 mark on which I can place reliance. Specimens of all the 

 three have been deposited in the collection of the East India 

 Company. Although I have no doubt of the plant, which I 

 found, being the Bern Curini, its antherae are so different from 

 the character of them given by Willdenow and in the Encyclo- 

 pSdie, where the loculi are described as united, that our plant is 

 either different from theirs, or they have placed it very erro- 

 neously among the MonanthercE. I must indeed remark, that 

 the identity of our plant, with that of Linnaeus in the Flora Zey- 

 lanica, is by no means clear ; because he describes the bracteae 

 oppositae, but with us they are quaternae. If this distinction be 

 sufficient to separate the species, then the plant of Linnaeus be- 

 ing the undoubted Justicia Betonica, we may adopt for ours 

 Dr, Roxburgh's name J. ramosissima, transferring to it the Bem 

 Curini, of which I shall now give a description from the 

 plant in its wild state, those of Dr. Roxburgh having been cul- 

 tivated. 



Frutex duos pedes alta, diffusa. Radix lignosa, digitum crassa. 

 Rami subpubescentes,. sulco gemino utrinque inter folia de- 

 currente angulati, internodiis basi incrassatis. Folia lan- 

 ceolato-ovata, subrepanda, dentata, costata, venosa, utrin- 

 que pubescentia, scabriuscula ; superiora acuta, inferiora 

 obtusiuscula. Petiolus brevissimus, anceps, acutangulus, 

 subtus convexior, annulo integerrimo ramum cingens. 



SpiccB nunc ramulo brevissimo diphyllo axillari insidentes, tunc 

 rami majoris apicem terminantes, intermedia aliquando 

 iterum trifariam divisa, folio longiores, erectae, subsecundae, 

 quadrifariam imbricatae bracteis ovatis, acutis, persistenti- 

 bus, albis, nervis viridibus reticulatis ; quarum dorsales 



simplices. 



