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generally to be found in gardens. The roots, rubbed up with 

 lime-juice and pepper, are used to cure Ringworms ; the roots 

 boiled in milk are reckoned by native doctors aphrodisiacal. 

 Syn. Justicia nasuta, Linn. sp. PL p 63 ; J scandens, Vahl. Symb. 

 ii, p 7. ; J sylvatica, Lour. Cochin i, p 26 ; Dianthera paniculata, 

 Lour. Cochin i, p 32. 



30. ERANTHEMUM, Linn. 



1. ROSEUM, Rcem. and Schult. syst. i, p 175. Leaves elliptic, 

 glabrous, scabrous on the veins beneath ; spikes axillary-peduncled, 

 imbricated ; bracts oval, somewhat wedge-shaped, acute, ciliated, 

 with long hairs, reticulately veined. Around Bombay, Perottet. 2; 

 leaves 5 inches long, 2 broad ; corolla 1| inch long. 



2. NERVOSUM, R." Br. Prod, p 333. Stem quadrangular ; 

 leaves ovate or elliptic, acuminated at both ends, subcrenate or 

 entire, glabrous ; spikes axillary, opposite, imbricated ; bracts 

 elliptic, long and acutely cuspidate, reticulated with veins ; 

 diameter of the limb of the corolla as long as the tube; flowers 

 blue. The Concans. Syn. E pulchellum, Roxb Fl Ind. i, p 111 ; 

 Justicia nervosa, Vahl. Enum. i, 164; Bot. Mag. t. 1358; J 

 pulchella, Roxb. PI Cor. p 41, t. 111. 



3. MONTANUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 110. Stem quadrangular ; 

 leaves oblong, attenuated at both ends, repand-crenate, glabrous ; 

 peduncles terminal, trichotomous, and the spikes pubescent and 

 viscid ; bracts lanceolate, attenuated, ciliated. The Ghauts near 

 Dharvvar. Syn. E capense fol. lanceolato-ovatis petiolatis, Linn. 

 Fl Zeyl. No. 15; Willd. sp. PI. i, p 51 ; Wight Ic. t. 466 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4031 ; E montanum, Roxb. ; E fastigiatum, Spr. syst. i, 

 89 ; Justicia fastigiata, Lam. Illust. p 41. 



4. CRENULATUM, Wall, in Bot. Reg. t. 879. Shrubby, erect ; 

 leaves oblong, acuminated at both ends, repand-crenate, glabrous ; 

 raceme terminal, simple or compound, or several axillary aggregat- 

 ed simple ; flowers somewhat fascicled, subverticelled or secund, 

 white ; bracts and bracteoles subulate, short, and with the calyx 

 glandular and scabrous. In the Warree jungles. Syn. Justicia 

 latifolia, Vahl. Symb. ii, p 4; Willd. sp. PI i, 88 ; E dianthemm, 

 Blume Bijdr. p 792. 



31. RUNGIA. 



1. PARviFLORA,N.abE.inDC. Prod. ll,p 469. Stem diffuse 

 or creeping ; leaves oval or lanceolate, rather obtuse ; fertile bracts 

 suborbicular, mucronate or unpointed, nerved and veined, glabrous, 

 ciliated, with membranous margin, sterile ones oval or oblong, 

 margined on one or both sides, acute ciliated ; bracteoles membra- 

 nous margined, emarginate mucronate ; corolla small, upper lip 



