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32. JUSTICIA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. FJowers sessile or subsessile, in 

 spikes or panicles (rai'ely solitary or clustered), usually small ; bracts 

 A'arious ; bracteoles narrow or obsolete. Calyx 5- or 4-partite ; 

 segments narrow. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube equalling or shorter than 

 the limb ; upper lip 2-lobed or subentire ; lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 2 ; filaments often dilated ; anthers 2-celled, 

 one cell higher up than the other, the cells oblong or round, the lower 

 always with a white basal appendage. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell ; style filiform ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 4-seeded (except in the abnormal capsules of J. Jieterocarpa), sometimes 

 seed -bearing from the base, sometimes contracted below into a solid stalk 

 and seed-bearing at the apex. Seeds ovoid or suborbicular, more or less 

 compressed, tubercular, scaly or glochidiate. — Distbib, All warm 

 regions ; species about 200. 



Calvs 5-partite, segments siibequal. 

 Shrubs. 



Steins erect; leaves reaching 9 in. long; corolla 1 in. 



long and upwards 1. J. montana. 



Stems decumbent ; leaves reaching 3 in. long ; corolla 



less than 1 in. long 2. J. Betonica, 



var. 7'amosissima. 

 Herbs. 



Flowers 1-4-nate, axillarj- ; capsules dimorphous ... 3. J. hetnocarpa. 

 Flowers numerous in spikes ; capsules not di- 

 morphous. 



Leaves less tlinn 2 in. long. 



Eracts lanceolate, v\liite with green nerves ... 4. J. trinervia. 



Bracts orbicular, green b. J. glauca. 



Leaves exceeding 2 in. long ; bracts ovate, 



glandular-pubescent 0. J.ivynaadcmh. 



Cnlyx 4-partito ; corolla less tlinn h in. long. 



Sepals scarious, the midrib ]iroduced into a long 



arista 7- J. micraniha. 



Sepals not scarious, not aristate. 



Bracts and bracteoles shorter than the calyx ; sepals 

 minutely scabrous at tlie tip, elsewhere glabrous; 



corolla J in. long 8. J. diffusa. 



Bracts and bracteoles as long as or longer than the 

 calyx. 



Bracts linear, obtuse, glabrous ; sepals similar 

 to tlie bracts, glabrous; corolla reaching if in. 



long 0. J. quiiiqucanguhris. 



Bracts elliptic, subacute, i',t-iV in. broad, clot lied 



witii glistening jointed hairs; sepals hiiiry ... 10. J. simplex. 

 Bracts linear-Iancoolate, hairy, ,'5 in. broad 11. J. procumhen$. 



1. Justicia montana, Wall, Cat. (1828) 2471 {not of Eoxb.). 

 Shrubby, 2-3 ft, high ; stem erect, subtetragoual, nearly glabrous. 

 Lea\es C-10 by 2-3^ in., elliptic-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, base 

 attenuated into the petiole; main nerves 9-11 pairs, slender, arcuate, 

 prominent beneath ; petioles |-1 in. long. Flowers white, clustered, in 

 large terminal ])aniculate sometimes Ihyrsoid spikes or racemes (5-15 in. 

 long, the lower clusters of flowex's often dii«tant ; bracts | by ^ in., 

 ovate-oblong, puberulous ; bracteoles I in. long, elliptic; pedicels 0-i 

 in. long. Calyx j in. long, pubescent, H-partitc to w if bin -\. in. of the 



