JllSticia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 115 



William Carey, into the Botanic garden, where it flowers in 

 January and February, and the seeds are ripe in March and 

 April. 



Root ramous. Stem straight, woody. Branches nearly 

 straight, general height from four to eight feet ; woody parts 

 round, and covered with smooth ash-coloured bark ; young 

 shoots smooth, swelled at the insertion of the leaves, somewhat 

 four-sided, and tinged with dull purple. Leaves opposite, 

 short- petioled, drooping, lanceolar, entire, smooth on both 

 sides, of a firm texture, the upper side deep green, the under 

 side pale ; from four to eight inches long, and from one to 

 two broad. Racemes terminal, often solitary, though some- 

 times two, or even threefold, thyrsiforrn, shape of the flame 

 of a candle, crowded with large orange coloured flowers. Pp.- 

 dicels four fold, verticelled, approximate, one flowered, short- 

 er than the divisions of the calyx. Bracies three-fold, subu- 

 late; the inner two permanent, and inserted on the base of the 

 pedicels ; the exterior single one larger and caducous. Calyx 

 simple, five-cleft, to the base divisions equal, straight, subu- 

 late, half the length of the tube of the corol. Corol about an 

 inch long. Tube incurved, compressed, laterally somewhat 

 villous. Border bilabiate ; upper lip broad, projecting 

 straight forward, deeply emarginate ; under lip of three, 

 equal, deeply-divided, ovate, acute divisions. Jlnthers even 

 with the upper lip of the corol, dark brown, oval, an open- 

 ing on the under side for the discharge of the white pollen, 

 and studded on the bark. Style scarcely so long as the sta- 

 mina. Stigma entire. Capsule linear- clavate, smooth. Seeds 

 five or six in each cell. 



Obs. This is one of the most beautiful species of Justicia 

 I have yet met with in India, even when only in foliage. It 

 grows readily from cuttings. 



3. J. vitellina. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolar, reflexed, smooth. 

 Racemes terminal, cylindric ; floivers opposite ; below fas 



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