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This small tree or large shrub, is common over most parts 

 of India. Flowering- time the cold season. 



Trunk straight, bark pretty smooth, ash coloured. Branches 

 sub-erect, with bark like that of the trunk, but smoother. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, long, taper- 

 pointed, smooth on both sides, about five or six inches long, 

 and one and a half broad. Spikes from the exterior axills, 

 solitary, long ped uncled, the whole end of the branchlet form- 

 ing a leafy panicle, flower-bearing portion short, and covered 

 with large bractes. Flowers opposite, large, with small fer- 

 ruginous dots ; the lower part of both lips streaked with 

 purple. Bractes three fold, opposite, one flowered. Exte- 

 rior one of the three, large, ovate, obscurely five-nerved. 

 Interior pair, much smaller, and sub-lanceolate ; all are per- 

 manent. Calyx five-parted to the base ; divisions nearly equal. 

 Corol ringent. Tube short ; throat ample ; upper Up vault- 

 ed, emarginate ; loiver lip broad, and deeply three-parted ; 

 both streaked with purple. Filaments long, resting under the 

 vault of the upper lip. Anthers twin. 



Ohs. The wood is soft, and esteemed very fit for making 

 charcoal for gun-powder. 



19. J. decusata. R. 



Shrubby, erect ; branches twiggy, villous, and decussated. 

 Leaves from ovate to oblong. Flowers in opposite fasciculi 

 on the leafless branchlets. Anthers double, all calcarate. 



A tall, stout shrubby plant, a native of the country above 

 Rangoon; and from thence introduced into the Botanic garden, 

 where it is in flower during the month of February and 

 March. 



Stem straight to the plant, ligneous ; in two years' old plants 

 as thick as a walking cane. Branches regularly decussate, 

 straight, all the younger shoots villous, and as they shoot into 

 flower nearly leafless. Leaves short petioled, ovate-oblong, en- 

 tire, pretty smooth ; from three to twelve inches long. Floio- 

 ers in numerous little, opposite fascicles, of three to six*. 



