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egg-fhaped . the ftylus filiform : the Jligma in 

 fome manner reprefents a hat ( fubcapitatuni) 

 and is bent downwards: the capfule is oval, 

 and contains many feeds. The plant has a 

 fialk which lies on the ground, is round, thick, 

 carnofe and hairy : the leaves are oblong and 

 ferrated : the flowers are axillary, and likewife 

 grow on the tops of the branches, and are of 

 a blue colour : the foot fialks are rough. This 

 plant grows on the banks of the river. 



Jufticia purpurea adorned the European 

 graves. This plant too has hitherto efcaped 

 the notice of botanifts. The Chinefe call it 

 Happ-key-lee, or Happ-keyfa. The calyx is 

 double (which diflinguifhes it from the other 

 fpecies of Jufticia), monophyllous, cylindrical ; 

 the exterior ends in four teeth, the interior in 

 five bridles ; the latter is fhorter, is covered by 

 the exterior, and includes the germen t the co- 

 rolla is monopetalous : its tube cylindrical : the 

 limb ringent : the upper lip oblong, broad to- 

 wards the point, trifid ; and the lower lip 

 fmall, of equal breadth, and revolute towards 

 the point : the two filaments are fixed to the 

 incifion of the corolla y they are tabulated and 

 bearded towards the inlide : the anther <z are 

 oblong and ereel: the pijlillum is of equal 

 2 length 



