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2. TRINERVIA, N. ab E. loc. cit. Suffruticose ; stem procum- 

 bent ; leaves lanceolate or oval, obtuse sessile, glabrous ; spikes 

 terminal secund, slender ; bracts and bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, reticulately veined, much smaller than the last species. 

 On Wag Donger, near Vingorla. Syn. Justicia trinervia, Vahl. 

 Enum. i, p 156 ; Dicliptera trinervia, Juss. Ann. Mus. ix, p 169. 



3. VASICA, N. ab E. loc. cit. p 387. A shrub, 4 to 5 feet high ; 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, attenuated: at both ends, glabrous ; spikes 

 axillary, opposite, ovate, long-ped uncled ; bracts herbaceous, 

 glabrous, ovate ; flowers rather large, white, with brown spots. On 

 the Ghauts, pretty common. Used in making hedges in Gujarat and 

 Ghaut villages. Roxburgh says the wood is good for making 

 charcoal for gunpowder. Syn. Justicia adhatoda, Linn. Fl Zeyl. 

 p 16. 



4. WYNAADENSIS, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11, p 406. Shrubby ; 

 stems long, slender, terete,* smooth ; leaves oblong, attenuated at 

 both ends, lower ones crenate-dentate ; spikes axillary, spreading 

 and drooping, glandular and pubescent ; flowers solitary, opposite, 

 pubescent, quarter of an inch long ; bracts ovate deciduous ; 

 bracteoles linear-subulate, shorter than the calyx. Jungly parts of 

 the Concan, common. Syn. Gendarussa wynaadensis, N. ab E. in 

 Wall. PI As. rar. iii, p 104. 



27. HEMICHORISTE, N. ab E. 



1. H MONTANA, N. ab E. in PI As. rar. iii, p 102. Shrubby, 

 smooth ; leaves large, oblong-entire, attenuated into the petiole ; 

 thyrsus of whitish flowers, terminal, six inches to a foot in length ; 

 corolla upwards of "an inch long. The Ghauts, pretty common. This 

 may be easily mistaken for an Adhatoda, which it much resembles. 



28. JUSTICIA, N. ab E., Linn. 



1. ECBOLIUM, Linn. Fl Zeyl. p 17. Shrubby; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, attenuated at both ends, pubescent or glabrous; spikes 

 terminal, tetragonal ; bracts oval, quite entire, ciliated, mucronate, 

 as long as the capsule ; flowers greenish or azure- coloured ; capsule 

 half an inch long. Hills throughout the Concans ; Island of 

 Bombay. Bot. Mag. t. 1847. 



29. RHINACANTHUS, N. ab E. 



1. COMMUNIS, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11, p 442. Shrubby, 

 4 to 5 feet high ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong ; panicles axillary 

 and terminal, bitrichotomous, spreading ; flowers small, white ; 

 corolla with a long, slender, compressed tube. Mahableshwur ; 



