JltSticia. DIANDRTA MONOGYNTA. 117 



able recur vature, longer than the leaves, round, and smooth. 

 Flowers opposite, remote, pure white. Bractes, three 

 small ones to each flower, shorter than the calyx. Corol ; 

 tube long, straight, filiform ; upper lip of two, erect, wedge- 

 shaped divisions united below the middle; under lip three- 

 parted ; divisions broader and pointing downwards. Fila- 

 ments short. Anthers just without the tube. 



5. J. picta. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 88. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolate, pointed. Ra- 

 cemes sub globular. Tube of the corol widening', vertically 

 compressed, margins of the segments of the border revolute. 



Tsjnde maram. Rheed. 3Ial. 6. p. 111. t. 60. 



Folium bracteatum. Rumph. Jlmb.4. p. 7'3. t. 30. 



A large, elegant, famous shrub, common in gardens, and 

 one of our finest ornaments. I never saw it wild ; it is in flow- 

 er most part of the year. 



Leaves opposite, short petiolod, ovate lanceolate, smooth- 

 pointed, generally variegated wilh large white spots, though 

 sometimes of a uniform green, and we have a variety with 

 the leaves uniformly ferruginous. Racemes terminal, short, 

 erect, smooth. Flowers large, generally of a beautiful crim- 

 son colour. Bractes opposite ; below three or four-flower- 

 ed ; above one-flowered. Corol, throat compressed, divisions 

 of the border soon after they expand becoming spirally revo- 

 lute, with their inside wrinkled, and beautifully ornamented 

 with small chrystalline specks. 



€). J. panicnlata. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 89. 



Herbaceous, erect, four sided, brachiate. Leaves sub-ses- 

 sile, lanceolate. Racemes terminal ; flowers secund, erect. 

 Corol bilabiate; lips linear, revolute. Jlnthers coalesced, 

 and bearded at the base. Capsules linear, many-seeded. 



Ben<j. Kala-megb, Kab/p nath, or Mt/ha-t?ta ; the last 

 name implies Kiny of bitters, and a very powerful, much 

 esteemed one it is. 



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