128 DIANDRTA MONOGYNIA. Justicia. 



appearing- sub-vertieelled, over the slender, leafless twigs, 

 sub-sessile, pale rose colour. Bractes numerous, slender, 

 and very downy. Calyx live-parted; segments ensiform, vil- 

 lous. Corol ringcnt ; tube gibbous near the base ; upper lip 

 sub-lanceolate, concave, erect ; under Up broad and three- 

 lobed. Filaments nearly as long as the upper lip ; apex 

 much enlarged. Anthers two on each filament, all with a 

 calcarate base. Germ oblong, sitting in a large, glandular, 

 yellow ring. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma simple. 



20. J. Gendarussa* Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 87. 



Shrubby, diffuse, smooth. Leaves narrow-lanceolar. Spikes 

 terminal, sub -verticelled. Lower anthers calcarate. 



Vada-Kodi. Rheed. Mai. 9. p. 79. t. 42. 



Gendarussa. Rumph. Amb. A. p. 70. t. 28. 



JBeng. Jvgut-iwidun. 



A handsome shrub. T have never met with it wild, but in 

 gardens it is common, and stows readily from slips and cut- 

 tings ; it is in flower during the wet season chiefly. I am told 

 it is indigenous on the Malay Islands. 



Stem scarcely any. Branches numerous, long, straggling, 

 except when kept cut, they are then more erect. Bark of 

 the young parts generally dark purple, and very smooth ; 

 in some varieties green. Leaves opposite, short- pet ioled, lan- 

 ceolar, obtuse, frequently a little scolloped, smooth ; nerve 

 and veins dark purple, from three to six inches long, and 

 from half an inch to an inch broad. Spikes terminal, erect, 

 verticelled. Anthers double, the lower ones have a spur-like 

 process projecting downwards and outwards. 



21. J. Betonica. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 96. 



Shrubby. Leaves sub-ovate. Spikes terminal. Bractes 

 white, with green veins. Corol ringent. Anthers two-lobed, 

 the lower calcarate. Seeds turbercled, two in each cell. 



* Willdenow has spoiled this name. Linnaeus wrote it Gan- 

 darussa, which is nearer the truth. The word is Gimdharusfl. 



