JuSlicia. DIANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 123 



inches long. Peduncles axillary, often proliferous and 

 much longer than the petioles, supporting two, or three flow- 

 ers. Flowers large, beautiful, bright earmine colour. Bractes 

 or floral leaves opposite, sessile, from ovate to linear. Calyx 

 simple, divided almost to the base into five ensiform, equal 

 portions. Corol ; tube long, slender, curved, villous, and 

 somewhat twisted ; upper lip linear-oblong, recurved over the 

 tube, apex three toothed, at the base some dark coloured 

 spots ; under lip broad-lanceolate, pointing" directly to the 

 earth, apex slightly two-toothed. Filaments inserted in the 

 mouth of the tube of the corol, nearly as long as its border, 

 and, with the lower lip, pointing downwards. Anthers dou- 

 ble, linear, purple, with pale coloured pollen. Style as long 

 as the stamens, and beyond the tube taking the same direction 

 with them. Stigma slightly emarginate. Capsules pedicelled, 

 with two seeds in each cell. 



13. J. linctoria. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong. Floicers ter- 

 minal, fascicled, involucred. Anthers linear. 



Folium tinctorium. Rumph. Amb. vi. 51. tab. xxii. jf. 1. 



Beny. Batia-rung. 



Found in the woods about Calcutta, in full flower in 

 October. 



Stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, sub-erect ; young 

 shoots jointed, and swelled above the joints, round, a little 

 downy. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-, entire, covered 

 with a little harsh pubescence, two to three inches long-. 

 Peduncles terminal, forming the exterior axills, each support- 

 ing some few fascicles, of four to six sessile flowers. Bractes 

 opposite, sessile, entire ; those of the flowers (better perhaps 

 called involucels) linear, oblong, cordate, unequal : the 

 uppermost being larger and incumbent over the fascicle of 

 flowers. Calycine bractes small. Calyx five-toothed. Corol; 

 lube, length of the largest involucres, filiform, having a 



