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handsome variegated shrub, bearing red flowers, having green 

 leaves with large white spots fringed with green, and some va- 

 rieties with red and dark red spots. The leaves are used for the 

 decoration of the dessert after dinner, and other ornamental pur- 

 poses : few leaves can be found on which some grotesque resem- 

 blance to the human countenance may not be fancied or traced. 



JUSTICIA ECBOLIUM. Acanthcicece. NAT. OODOO-JATEE. A 

 shrubby plant with azure coloured flowers. 



JUSTICIA PANICULATA. NAT. CREYAT, This plant grows wild 

 in the Southern parts of India, and is highly prized as an excel- 

 lent stomachic ; and is said to form the basis of the famous 

 French bitter tincture termed Drogue Amere. 



JUSTICIA NASUTA. NAT. KABUTER KE JAR KE JURE. A 

 shrubby plant with white flowers in axillary and terminal pani- 

 cles ; grows spreading along the ground. The leaves are bruised 

 and used by the Natives for curing ringworm. 



JUSTICIA COCCINEA. This is a species bearing a small pink 

 flower. The leaves are of a reddish colour underneath. It ia 

 said by the Natives that the root is an antidote to the bite of a 

 snake, and that it is the root sought after by them when bitten 

 by the cobra. 



JUSTICIA GENDARUSSA. NAT. KALI-SHUMBALI. A handsome 

 shrubby plant with bark of a dark purple hue very smooth, and 

 in some varieties green, flowers during the rains, it grows readily 

 by cuttings or slips : the leaves when rubbed have a strong and 

 not unpleasant smell ; they are roasted and given by the Natives 

 in chronic rheumatism. 



KLEINHOVIA HOSPITA. Byttneriacece. A tree with alternate 

 broad cordate leaves and small pink flowers in terminal panicles ; 

 capsule pear shape and inflated. 



KUMRUCK. Vide Averhoa Carambola. 



KURUNDA. Vide Carissa Carandas. 



LAGERSTR(EMIA ALBA. Lythracece. LAGERSTRCEMIA INDICA. NAT. 

 HENNA OR TELINGA-CHINA, This is the white flowering species 

 of the China mendie. A common shrub in gardens, and used for 



