JusiiciC SlAIiDRIA MONOGYNIA. 117 



— Sii/ie scarcely so long as the stamina. Stigma entire. — Capsule 

 linear-clavate. smooth.- — Seeds^xe or six in each cell. 



Obs, This is one of the most beautiful species of Justicia I have 

 >et met with in hidia, even when only in foliage. It grows readily 

 from cuttings. 



3- J. vitellhta. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves broad-lanceolar, refiexed, smooth. iJs- 

 cemes terminal, cyliudiic ; flowers opposite; below fascicled, about 

 the middle tern, and above single ; sub-ringent, with ample-campa- 

 nulale throat. Capsule linear, few-seeded, 



A native of the hilly parts of Chittagong, where it blossoms in Fe- 

 bruaiy and March. 



Stems scarcely any; but several, erect, stiff, short branches, with. 

 their ultimate tender divisions four-sided, the angles sharp, and rather 

 rough ; whole height of full grown plants about three feet. — Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, reflexed, from oblong to lanceolar, entire 

 and pretty smooth ; length from two to four inches, by from one to two 

 broad. — Racemes terminal, solitary, rigidly erect, cylindric ; from 

 three to six inches long. Rachis four-angled. — Flowers rather small, 

 colour yellowish pink, on the lower part of the raceme in opposite 

 fascicles, about its middle in threes on common very short peduncles 

 and pedicels ; above single. — Bractes to the single flowers solitary, 

 to the lower three.— Ca/j/.i single, five-parted ; divisions broad-subu- 

 late. — Corol with the tube shorter than the calyx, and an ample- 

 campanulate throat ; 6orc?er sub-bilabiate ; upper lip projecting almost 

 horizontally, bifid; lower lip broad, and three-parted.— i77a?«e«fs 

 much curved, hairy near the base. Anthers single, linear, lodged 

 under the upper lip of the corol .—Gerw two-celled, about four ovuld 

 in each. — Stigma simple, obtuse. — Capsule linear, smooth. 



4. J. alba. R. 



Shrubby erect, smooth, ieaces opposite, ovate-ianceoiate. Spikes 



