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by many, long, ensiform, biactes. Tube of the corol curved, and 

 twisted ; upper Up three-dentate, under lip entire. 



This beautiful shrub, is a native of the Silhet district, uhere it is 

 called Toogee. Flowering time the cold season. 



Stems erect, or nearly so, branches round and smooth, and while 

 young, swelled just above the insertion of the leaves; whole height 

 from two to four feet. — Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolar, (that 

 is tapering equally at each end) entire, acute, smooth; from three 

 or six inches long by one or two broad. — Floxcers numerous, 

 large and rosy, collected in numerous, terminal, clammy fasicles 

 of from two to four each, and embraced by numerous, ensiform, 

 clanuny bractes, like a common calyx, and longer than the proper 

 perianths ; the whole forming a pretty large panicle at the end of 

 each branch. — Ca/^x five- parted ; segments ensiform, smooth.— Co- 

 Tol; tube long, slender, curved outward, and like my J. speciosa, late- 

 hrosa, 8cc. has a half twist ; which, as in the orchidece, brings the lower 

 lip uppermost. Border bilabiate, lips nearly equal, oblong ; the su- 

 perior, in its inverted state, three-toothed ; the inferior entire. — 

 Filaments from the mouth of the tube of the corol ; shorter than the 

 lips, and projecting straight over the under one. Anthers double, one 

 at the end of the other, forming one straight line ; the exterior half 

 of the posterior one being attached to the apex of the filaments and 

 to the base of the exterior anther. 



22. J. speciosa. R. 



Perennial, erect. Leaves ovate-cordate. Peduncles axillary and 

 terminal, proliferous, few-flowered. Bractes opposite, foliaceous. 

 Corol bilabiate, tube curved, and twisted ; lips equal ; upper one 

 tridentate, lower one bidentate. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms during 

 the cold season, and is then one of the greatest ornaments of the 

 forests. 



Stems erect, jointed. Branches few, and erect. Bark of the lig- 



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