jitsticia. ] A cantkacecB. 333 



21. MONOTHECIUia, //^6//j/. 



Annual, 1. opp., entire, fl. small, sessile, in dense unilateral 

 spikes, bracts and brackets acicular, many empty of flowers; 

 sep. 5, acicular, as long as bractlets; cor. deeply 2-lipped; 

 stam. 2, anth. i -celled, not spurred; capsule very small, with 

 a solid base; seeds 4, compressed, strongly rugose, retinacula 

 large. — Sp. 2 ; i \n Fl. B. Lid. 



m. aristatum, And. in T/iiu. Eninn. 234 (i860). 

 Anthoconietes urisfatus, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 312. C. P. 1984. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 524. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 269 (not good). 



Stem 1-2 ft, diffuse, much-branched, often rooting at 

 lower nodes, cylindrical, slightly pubescent; 1. ih-2h in., 

 ovate-oval, acute at both ends, entire, slightly pubescent on 

 veins beneath, petiole h-i in.; fl. crowded in short i-sided, 

 axillary spikes, bractlets bristle-like; sep. equal, quite like the 

 bractlets, pubescent; cor.-tube short, lobes rounded; capsule 

 \ in., sharply beaked ; seeds much corrugated, white. 



Low country, chiefly in the dry districts; rather rare. Dambulla; 

 Kekirawa; Uma-oya; Hantane. Fl. March-May; white, with red dots 

 at base of lower lip. 



Also in S. India. 



This is readily mistaken iox Justicia procumbeiis. 



22. JUSTICIA,* L. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs, 1. opp., entire or nearly so, fl. 

 sessile, small or moderate-sized, in terminal or axillary spikes 

 or panicles, bracts and bractlets broad or narrow, latter some- 

 times absent; sep. 5 (rarely 4), slightly connate at base, 

 narrow; cor. 2-lipped, upper lip small, erect, lower lip broad, 

 spreading, 3-lobed; stam. 2, anth. 2-celled, cells oblong, more 

 or less distant and on different levels, the lower ones spurred 

 at the base; style very slightly bilobed; capsule ovoid, with 

 or without a cylindrical solid base; seeds 4, slightly com- 

 pressed, tubercular or rugose, glabrous or rarely bristly. — Sp. 

 100; 50 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Bracts broad, ovate, or orbicular. 



Bracts \ in., ovate i J. Betonica. 



Bracts J in., rotundate 2. J. zeylanica. 



Bracts \ in., spathulate . . . • 3- J- TRANQUEBARENSIS. 



* Commemorates James Justice, M.D., of Edinburgh. Name first 

 given to a Jamaica species. 



