118 DIANDR1A MONOGYNIA. Justicici. 



Kreat is (he name by which it is known on the Malabar 

 coast, &c. where it is much used in medicine, and is the bitter 

 of the famous Nortruin, called Drogue a were. 



Cara-canirum. Rheed. Mai 9. p. 109. t. 5. 6. 



Te/ific/. Nella-vemgoo. 



A native of dry ground, under the shade of frees, bushes, 

 &c. Flowering and seed time, the wet and cold seasons. 



Stem erect, generally annual, at least down to the root, 

 brunch v ; slender, four sided, jointed, smooth, one to two feet 

 high. Branches opposite, cross-armed, four-sided, spread- 

 ing. Leaves opposite, short-petiole d, lanceolate, entire, 

 smooth; two or three inches long. Racemet ; t< nninal, and 

 from the exterior axills, horizontal, long secund, four-sided. 

 Flowers remote, rose-coloured, leuig podicellcd, alternate, 

 erect, downy. Bractes b large, exterior opposite pair; within 

 the flower-bearing one (here are two smaller, embracing the 

 base of the pedicels. Coral bilabiate. Tube recmrved ; //'/>.* 

 liner, and reflected; the iuperior broadest, three toothed; 

 the inferior two toothed. Filaments as long as the lips of the 

 corn), projecting, hairy. Anther* i very flat, obovate, firmly 

 united at the base, and three-bearded. Capsule erect, sub- 

 cylindric. Seeds three or four in each cell, cylindric. 



7. J. eckioides, Linn. sp % pi. ed. Willd. 1. p. 87. 



Annual, erect, tour sided, hairy. Leaves sessile, decussate, 

 oblong and linear. Spikes axillary, recurved over the bo- 

 soms of the leave s, secund. Capsule oblong, with four, ver- 

 rucose seeds. 



Pee-tnmba. Rheed. Mai. 9. /. 46. 



A native of Coromandel,and generally found on old walls, 

 in flower all the year. 



Stem annual, erect, four sided, hairy, with ascending, op- 

 posite, similar, brandies from the base; whole height about 

 a foot. Leaves opposite, decussate, sessile, from oblong to 

 linear, obtuse, recurved, hairy ; from one to two inches long. 

 Spikes axillary, spreading out over the bosom of the leaves, 



