the inner or true calyx, as mentioned by Mr. Ker, in the 
fynonym above quoted. In other refpetts, Vauw’s defcription 
agrees with our own obferyations. 
Perhaps the outer calyx in this and in every other Justicra, 
where it occurs, may be more properly confidered as two 
fmaller braétes. ‘The ftru€ture is exaétly the fame in Cros- 
sANDRA undulefolia of Sarissury, except that in the latter 
the two inferior bra€tes are equal in length to the exterior. 
Indeed thefe two plants appear to us to have fo near an affinity, 
as to throw great difficulty in the way of eftablifhing Cros- 
SANDRA as a diftin€&t genus; for the mere circumftance of 
two or four anthers does not feem fufhcient to form a generic 
diftin€&tion, and on this account Ruellia is not eafily feparable 
from Jufticia, 
As the {pecific name of pu/chella was applied not only by the 
author of the Botamift’s Repofitory, but by his reviewer, who 
- reduced it to the genus Jusricra, prior to Vaut’s publica- 
tion, and had been fince adopted by Dr. Roxgurcnu, we 
think it fhould have been retained by the author of the 
Hortus Kewenfis. But as the latter work will probably be 
confidered as the ftandard for names of plants cultivated in 
this country, we give up our own opinion, rather than run the 
rifk of adding to the confufion of the nomenclature. 
Native of marfhy places on the coaft of Coromandel. 
Requires a bark ftove, where it flowers very nearly the whole 
of the year. Introduced into Kew Gardens, by Mr. PeTER 
Goop, in the year 1796, Propagated by cuttings, 
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