128 D.IANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Justiciu. 



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 oppo- 

 site, 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, solilary, long-peduucled, the whole 

 end of the brauchlet forming a leafy panicle, flower-bearing portion 

 short, and covered with large bractes. — F/ozcers opposite, large, 

 with small ferruginous dots ; the lower part of both lips streaked 

 with purple. — Bractes three-fold, opposite, one-flowered. Exterior 

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

 much smaller, and sub-lanceolate ; all are permanent. — ( '<//y.i nve- 

 parted to the base; divisions nearly equal. — Corol rmgesil. Tube 

 short ; throat ample ; upper Up vaulted, emarginate ; lower lip broad, 

 and deeply three-parted; both streaked with purple. — Ttiaments 

 lon<^, resting under the vault of the upper lip. Anthers twin. 



Obs. The \vood is soft, and esteemed very fit for making charcoal 

 for gun-powder. 



19. J. decussata. R. 



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

 from ovate to oblong. Flozeers in opposite fasciculi on the leafless 

 branchlets. Anthers double, all calcarate. 



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

 goon ; and from thence introduced into the Botanic Garden, where 

 it is in flower during the mouth of February and March. 



Stent straight to the top of 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 mio flow- 

 er nearly leafless Leaves short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, pret- 

 ty smooth ; from three to twelve inches long. — Flozoers in numer- 

 ous, a little, opposite fascicles, of three to six, appearing subverti- 

 celled; over the slender, leafless twigs, subsessile, pale rose colour.— 



