1-^0 BIANDRIA MOXOGYXIA. JllSt'.cia. 



Root perennial. Stem none. Leaves radical, spreading 

 clcse on the ground, sessile, wedge form or oblong, crenulat- 

 ed, rugose, woolly on the under side; from six to twelve 

 inches long. Spike* radical, several, as long as, or longer 

 than the leaves, ascending, imbricated from top to bottom, 

 with small, rigid, pointed bractes, each of the superior ones 

 embracing a Mower, and two small lateral bractes. F/oio- 

 gn mail, white. Calyx live-leaved, the superior leaflets 

 mutt) the largest. Carol ; tube cvlindric, recurved ; upper 

 lip vaulted, under lip broad, three parted, with the divisions 

 two-parted. Capsules corneal, eight-seeded. Seed* kidney- 

 form. 



SECT. II. Carols bilabiate. Anthers double. 

 10. J. nasuta. Valil. Symb. 2. 15. Linn. sp. pi. ed. WillcL 



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Shrubby, erect. Leaves short pet ioled, lanceolate. Panicle 

 axillary and terminal. Upper Up of the corol, linear and 

 bidentate ; unrler Up broad, three lobed. 



Pul-colli. Rheed. Mat ft. 135. t. (if). 



Sans. YoothJka -pu rnee. 



Beng. Jooi-pan;i. 



Teling. and Tarn it I. Naga-mulb'. 



This species 1 bare only found in o-ardens : from whence 

 it originally eame, I cannot say. Flowers all the year round, 

 but never ripens its seed, owing 1 imagine, to its being always 

 propagated by cuttings, livers, or slips. It grows to be a 

 laro-e thin shrub, of five or move feet in height. 



Root woody, ramous. Sterns many, erect, ranious, the old 

 woody parts round, and covered with pretty smooth ash-co- 

 loured bark; the lender branches, and young shoots jointed, 

 smooth, and obsoleleJy six-seeded. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 broad-lanceolate, point obtuse, above smooth, below a little 

 downy, entire; from two to four inches long, and from one to 

 two broad. Panicles corymbiform, axillary, and terminal, al- 



