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Ohs. Dr. Konig's bractes are my exterior leaflets of the 

 calyx, but his flores terminales 1 cannot account for, and 

 there is no mistake in the plant, for I was with him when he 

 discovered and first described it. It looks well while young-, 

 but afterwards it has rather a scraggy appearance; I have 

 had it in my garden many years. 



RUELLIA. Schreb.gen. N. 1050. 

 Calyx five-parted. Coro/ somewhat campanulate, by pairs. 

 Capsule two-celleJ, two-valved, bursting with elasticity con- 

 trary to the partition. 



1. R. hifmidibulijormis. Roxb. 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong, four-fold. Spikes four-sided. 

 Bractes threefold. Calyx five-leaved. Carol with unilateral 

 border ; seeds scaly. 



Justicia infundibuliformis. Willd. i. 99. 



Manja Kurini. Rlieed, Mai. ix. t. 62. 



A pretty large, erecl, ramous shrub ; commonly found cul- 

 tivated in the Pagoda gardens, where it flowers all the year 

 round. Leaves four-fold and staid at the joints of the 

 branchlets, spreading, petioled, oblong, pointed, waved, run- 

 ning down the petiole, slightly pubescent, about two or 

 three inches long-, and one and a half broad. Petioles chan- 

 nelled, about an inch long. Spikes axillary, erect, long-pe- 

 duncled, four-sided; angles sharp, from the sharp points of 

 the bractes always ending there. Bractes oblong, jointed, 

 keeled, ciliate, one-flowered. Bractioles two, subulate, plac- 

 ed on each side of the calyx. Flowers numerous, pretty 

 large, of a bright orange colour. Calyx five-leaved, tiie three 

 exterior largest. Carol; tube filiform, curved like the letter 

 S ; border irregularly five-cleft. Filaments four, short, curv- 

 ed, two of them shorter. Anthers oblong, within the tube. 

 Pistillnm as in the genvis. Seeds two in the cell, with chaffy, 

 torn scales. 



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