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JUSTICIJ* venusta. 

 Beautiful Justicia. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord, AcanthacejE Jicss. {Introduction to the natural systetn of 

 Botany, p. 233.) 



JUSTICIA.— Suprd, vol. 4. fol. 309. 



J. venusta; fruticosa, foliis ovatis acuminatis crenatis per petiolum late 

 decurrentibus pubescentibus, panicula amplissima terminali longissime 

 pedunculata, floribus fasciculato-racemosis tubulosis, faucis bilabiatse 

 laciniis linearibus, antheris exsertis carnosis : loculis gracillimis parallelis, 

 capsula lineari polysperma. Wallich plant, asiat. rarior. vol. \.p. 53. 

 t. 66. 



Frutex 3-4:-pedalis, erecta, parcissime ramosa. Caulis digitum fere 

 crassiis, cortice cinerascente indutus. Rami breves, obsolete quadrangulares , 

 superne pubescentes. Folia opposita, approximata, decussatim patentissima, 

 ovata, attenuato-acuminata, obsolete crenulata, basis lateribus rotundatis, 

 medio attenuato, et per petiolum decurrente, 5-1-pollicaria, membra?iacea, 

 utrinque marginibusqiie pilis brevibus hyalinis asperula, supra atro-viridia, 

 oblique rvgosa, subtiis costd gracili, elevatd, nervis numerosis, parallelis, 

 obliquis, interque hos venis capillaribus, transversis. Petioli 2-3-pollicares, 

 sulcati, sursmn propter basin folii decurrentes latiuscule marginati. Panicula 

 terminalis, lato-ovata, ramosa, patentissima, longissime pedunculata. Pedun- 

 cnVi graciles,elongati,pallidi, sulcis duobus oppositis levibus notati, pubescentid 

 copiosd, glanduloso-capitellatd obsiti ; universalis semipedalis, pedalis, usque 

 ad bipedalem ; partiales semipedales ad pedales, fere filiformes. Bracteae 

 infra ramificationes primarias oppositce, foliacece, lineari-lanceolatce, polli- 

 cares ; reliqucB lineari-subulatce, breves. Flores pulcherrimi, atro-purpurei, 

 remote fascicidati, subsessiles, dispositi in racemos elongatos, graciles. Calyx 

 glanduloso-pilosus, parvus, 5-fidus ; lacinise lineares, acuminatce. Corolla 

 tubulosa, tripollicaris, extus pubescens ; tubus gracilis, \i^-pollicaris, basi 

 pallidus, apice subventricoso-dilatatus ; limbus 2-labiatus, tuho quadruplo 

 brevior, labio supcriore recto, leviterve adscendente, 2-Jido ; inferiore patenle, 

 3-Jido ; laciniis omnibus linearibus, ohtusiusculis. Stamina 2, supra faiiceni 

 perviam puberulam pariim elevata, glabra; filamenta capillacea, brevissima ; 

 antherse oblongce, carnosce, pariim divergentes, labio corollce superiore dimidio 

 breviores, antice 2-loculares ; loculis angustissimis, gracillimis, cequalibus. 

 Capsula gracilis, pallide ferruginea, Icevis, linearis, subtetragona, utrinque 

 profunde sulcata, polysperma. Seniina parva, plana, ovata, minutim rugosa. 

 —Wallich, 1. c. 



* See fol. 1227. 



