134 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Juslicia. 



Compare with J. parviflora. Retz. Obs. 5. p. 0. 



A very beautiful, delicate, diffuse species, growing in shady 

 places. Flowering time the cold season. 



Stems ninny, diffuse, filiform, round, smooth, jointed. 

 Branches alternate. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, depend- 

 ing, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; the pair are generally une- 

 qual in size. Spikes axillary or terminal, sessile, much short- 

 er than the leaves, secund, generally three together, the mid- 

 dle one largest. Flowers very small, bright blue. Bractes, 

 to each flower five, of different sizes, oval or lanceolate, with 

 beautiful white, membranaceous margins. Corol ; upper lip 

 entire, acute. Anthers, the lower one of each filament has a 

 long obtuse horn from the under end. Capsules four-seeded, 

 two in each cell. 



31. J. la?nifolia. Kon. MSS. 



Whole plant very downy, procumbent, annual. Leaves 

 oval. Spikes terminal, imbricated. Calyx four-leaved. 



Found in the vicinity of Calcutta, in uncultivated shady 

 places. 



Root fibrous. Stems and branches very numerous, round, 

 spreading close on the earth, clothed with long soft hair, and 

 down, somewhat glutinous, length from one to three feet. 

 Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oval, entire, clothed and gluti- 

 nous like the branches ; about an inch long. Spikes termi- 

 nal, oblong, closely imbricated with the bractes, and flowers. 

 Flowers numerous, small, variegated with deep and light 

 purple. Bractes ovate, one-flowered, hairy, clammy. Calyx 

 four-leaved, the under leaflet w T ith its apex bifid. Corol rin- 

 gent. Tube gibbous ; throat compressed ; upper lip two- 

 parted, and streaked with deep purple ; under lip broad, and 

 three-parted. Filaments short, inserted into the mouth of the 

 tube. Anthers twin, singly oval, and all equal. Stigma of 

 two, broadish, spreading lobes. Capsule conical. Seeds 

 eight or ten, roundish. 



Obs. It has the calyx of a Barleria and the stamina of a 



