124 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Justicta. 



nou3 parts ash- coloured ; of the yomif.-- shoots smooth and green. 

 — Leaves opposite, decussate, pctioled, ovate-cordate, entire, ra- 

 ther obtuse, a little wrinkled; from one to four niches long. — Pg- 

 duncles axillary, often proliferous and much longer than the petio- 

 les, supporting two, or three flowers. — Flowers large, beautiful, 

 bright carnmie colour, — Bractes, or tloral leaves opposite, sessile, 

 from ovate to linear. — Calyx simple, divided almost to the base 

 into five eusiform, equal portions. — Corol ; tube long, slender, curv- 

 ed, villous, and somewhat twisted; upper lip linear-oblong, recurv- 

 ed over the tube, apex three-toothed, at the base some dark colour- 

 ed spots ;'under lip broad lanceolate, pointing directly to the earth, 

 apex slightly two-toothed. — Filartients inserted in the mouth of the 

 tube of the corol, nearly as long as its border, and, with the lower 

 ]ip, pointing downwards. Anthers double, Imear, purple, with pale 

 coloured pollen. — Style as long as the stamens, and beyond the tube 

 taking, the same direction with them. Stigma slightly emarginate. 

 — Cjpules pedicelled, with two seeds in each cell. 



IS. J. tinctoria. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong. Flozcers terminal, fas- 

 cicled, involucred. Anthers linear. 



Folium tinctorium. Runipk. amh. vi. 51. tab. xxii.y. 1. 



Beng. Batia-rung. 



Found in the woods about Calcutta, in full flower in October, 



57em scarcely any ; irawcAes numerous, sub-erect; young shoots 

 jouited and swelled above the joints, round a little downy. — Leaves 

 opposite, pe ioled, oblong, entire, covered with a little harsh pubes- 

 cence, two to three inches long. — Peduncles terminal, forming the 

 exterior axills, each supporting some few fascicles, of four to six ses- 

 sile flowers. — Bractes of the peduncles and pedicels opposite, those 

 ot the flowers, or rather, the involucres subulate, opposite, sessile, li- 

 near oblong, cordate, entire, unequal; the upper one being the larg- 

 est, and incumbent over the others, and the flowers they contain : of 

 • the calyx smulL— Flowers sessile, large, of a beautiful deep pink co- 



