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two are calycine. — Flowers scarcely longer than the bractes, dull white, 

 with a few rosy veins on the centre of the lower lip. — Calyx of five 

 liiiear-lanceolate, acute segments. — Coro? ringent ; uppe7' lip vaulted, 

 With a bidentate apex ; imder lip broad, and three-cleft. — Anthers 

 double ; lower lobe with a long curved, sharp spur. — -Capsule ob- 

 long, four-seeded, very protuberant at the seeds. — Seeds nearly sphae- 

 rical, rugose. 



Obs. In the foliage, spikes, fjowers, and capsules, this species is 

 exceedingly like J. Betonka, which however, is always a tall, erect 

 plant, vvilh coloured bractes, while this is very bushy, spreads on 

 the ground, and strikes root abundantly at the joints; the bractes 

 afso are narrower, and greener. 



23. J. tranquebariensis. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1. 99. 



Herbaceous. Leaves round, or broad-cordate. Spikes terminal, 

 four-sided, occasioned by four rows of roundish ciliate bractes. Flow- 

 ers solitary, in two rows on the fore-part of the spikes. Anthers cal- 

 carate. 



Common amongst bushes on a dry barren soil, over the coast of 

 Coromandel. Flowering time the wet, and cold season. 



Roots perennial, somewhat granulated. — Steins m young plants 

 erect, in old ones uncertain ; branches annual, small, straggling, 

 round, a little downy^ jointed, and swelled above the joints, from 

 one to two feet long. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, or round, 

 entire, pretty smooth. — Spikes terminal, peduncled, long, erect, ge- 

 nerally four-sided, occasioned by four rows of orbicular, short-pe- 

 tioled, opposite, ciliate bractes ; besides these there are a pair of 

 small pointed ones which press the calyx laterally. — Flowers a mix- 

 ture of pale yellow, and red ; standing in the axills of the two 

 rows of bractes that occupy the fore part of the spikes ; on the back 



part they are generally wanting. — Calyx single Corel; upper lip 



emarginale, erect ; under lip broad, three-cleft. Anthers double, the 

 lowermost calcarate. — Seeds two in each cell, bristly. 



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