1340 



JUSTICIyi * quadrangulciris. 

 Square-stalked Justici a. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Acanthace.?;, 



JUSTICI A. — Siipn), vol. 4. fol. 309. 



.T. quadrangular is ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis petiolatis subdentatis acuminatis, 

 spica multiflora, bracteis subulatis, corollse fauce ventricosa, antherarum 

 loculis parallelis. 

 J. quadrangularis. Hooker bot. mag. 1340. 

 J. asperula. Wallich MSS. 



Planta 2-peo?a/is, erecta, caule spithamaeo, ramis rigidiusculis,gracilibus, 

 erectis, supra insertioneni. foliorum valde 7iodoso-ventricosis, angulis 4 tener- 

 rimis, pubescentid asperuld. Folia internodia ccquantia, ovalia, acuminata, 

 deorsum attenuata, marginibus minutiiis repando-subcrenatis, medio con- 

 vexis, 4-pollicaria, atroviridia, suprd nitida, Icevia, subtils costd puberuld 

 nervisque reticulatis scabriuscula. Petioli fere pollicares. Racenii ter- 

 minales, erecti, Q-pollicares, et ultrd, subtetragoni, stricti, pubescentes. 

 Rachis crassiuscula, tetragona. Fasciculi Jiorum mediocriurn decussati, 

 subsessiles. Flores ternati. Bractese subulato-lanceolatcB, acuminatissimce, 

 calycum apices attingentes, oppositce ; inferioribus subfoliaceis. Pedicelli 

 brevissimi, crassiusculi. Lacinice calycis linear i-subulatce, tubum corollcc 

 ex albo dilutissimd carnecB leviter compressum cequayites. Faux cernua, 

 ampla, ventricosa, labio superiore bilobo, inferiore 3-lobo, lobis lanceolatis, 

 acutiusculis. Labium inferius majus, valde deorsilvi prominens, supra con- 

 cavum excavatum et directione lacinice intermedicB hiteo-punctatce. Corolla 

 extus puberula. Antherse purpurascentes, majusculce, dorso puberulce sub 

 ^aZe^l— Wallich MSS. 



A native of Sylhet, whence it was introduced into the 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in August 1822. With us it 

 forms a small bush in the stove, flowering in October. 

 Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society in 1829. 



* Named after a Mr. James Justice, a person who was known us a 

 Horticultural amateur at the end of the seventeenth century. 



