' iSfiCia. DIANDRIA MONOfiYNlA. 121 



P^not perennial, stemless. Leaves radical, sessile, ovate-oMonQ;^ 

 c^renate. Spikes ascending, imbricated. Corol i iugent. Capsules many- 

 seeded. 



Elytraria c;r«flt a. Vahl. Enum. plant, i. 106. 



Teling. Nella mura. 



Grows on pasture ground, generaHy under the shade of trees. 

 Flowering and seed time the wet, and cold season. 



Root perenniui. — Stem none. — Leaves radical, spreading close on 

 the ground, sessile, wedge-form or oblong, crenulated, rtsgose, woolly 

 on the under side ; from six to twelve inches long. — Spikes radic..!, 

 several, as long as, or longer than the leaves, ascending, intbiicated 

 from top to bottom, with small, rigid, pointed bractes, each of the 

 superior ones embracing a flower, and two small lateral bractes. — 

 I'/oaws small, white.— Crt/y.r five-leaved, the superior leutletsmuch 

 the largest.— Co/o/; tube cjlindric, recurved ; upj^er lip vaulted, un- 

 der lip broad, three-parted, with the divisions two- parted. — Cap- 

 sules conical, eight-seeded.— 5^ef/s kidney-form. 



Sect. 2. Carols bilabiate. Anthers double. 



10. J. nasiita. Vahl. Sifmb. 2. 15. Linn. Sp. PL ed. H'illd. 1. 90. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate. Funicle axil- 

 lary and terminal. Upper lip of the corol linear, and bidentate ; un- 

 der lip broad, three-lobed. 



Pul-colli. Rheed. mal. 9. 135. t. 69. 



Sans- "^^W^mwf, Yootheka-peanee, 



Beng. Jooi-pana. 



Teling. and Tamul. Naga-mulh". 



This species I have only found in gardens : from whence it origi- 

 nally came, I cannot say. Flowers all the year round, but never ri.. 

 pens its seed, owing, I imagine, to its being always propagated by 

 cuttings, layers, or sHps. It grows to be a large thin shrub, of five, 

 or more feet in height. 



Root woody, famous.— S^ews many, erect^, ramous, the old woo- 



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