nS DIAN'DRIA MONOGYNIA. JuSticia^ 



terminal, and axillary. Flotcers remote. CqtgI with filiform tube, 

 5md bilabiate border. 



This very pietty plant, a native of the great Andaman, was 

 brought from thence to the Botanic Garden, by Capt. Stokoe. Flow- 

 ering time the beginning of the hot season. 



6Ve/« erect, round, smooth, while young swelled above the inser- 

 tions of the leaves. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, w^aved, 

 smooth and shining on both sides. — Spikes numerous, terminal, and 

 axillary, spreading, with a considerable recurvature, longer than 

 the leaves, round, and smooth. — Flowers opposite, remote, pure 

 white. — Bractes, three small ones to each flower, shorter than the 

 calyx. — Corol ; tube long, straight, filiform ; upper lip of two, erect, 

 wedge-shaped divisions united below the middle ; under Up three- 

 parted ; divisions broader and pointing downwards. — Filaments 

 short. Atithers jiisi without the tube. 



5, J. picta. Linn. Sp. PL ed. IVilld. 1. 88. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolate, pointed. Racemes, sub- 

 globular. Tubeoi the corol widening, vertically compressed, margins 

 of the segments of the border revolute. 



Tsjude-mzx^m. Rheed. mal. 6. p. 111. ^. 60. 



Folium bracteatum. Rumph. amh. 4. p. 73. ^ 30. 



A large, elegant, ramous shrub, common in gardens, and one of our 

 finest ornaments. 1 never saw it wikl ; is in tlower most part of the year. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, smootb-pointedy 

 generally variegated with large white spots, though sometimes of a 

 uniform green, and we have a variety with the leaves uniformly ferru- 

 ginous. — ■Racemes terminal, short, erect, smooth. — Flowers laige, 

 generally of a beautiful crimson colour. — Bracles opposite ; below 

 three or four-flowered ; above one-flowered.— Co;o/, throat com- 

 pressed, divisions of the border soon after they expand becoming 

 spirally revolute, with their inside wrinkled, and beautifully orna- 

 mented with small chrystalline specks. 



