zs JUSTI'CIA SPECIOSA. 
~~ SHEWY JUSTICIA. 
oR DICOTYLEDONE&. 
which 
sees nae division 
this Pant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, ACANTHACE, 
COROLLIFLORE&, S35 Artificial diyisions Bato Sone 
OF mn to which ONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. NJ this Plant belongs, } or LINNEUS, 
No. 74. 
_— Justicia. Linnevs. Caryx 4-5-fidus bracteatus. Corona 
2-labia AnTHER# 2-loculares, loculis sepe distantibus. Capsuta ovalis_ 
2: acinar loculis dispermis, dissepimento retinacula seminum — ad- 
nato. SprENGEL. Species Plantarum, vol. I, p. 27. 
PEC IES. Justicia SPECIOSA Roxsuren. Pepuncc is axillaribus pan- 
cifloris prolife: eris, bract 
tusis rae vege 
sities foliaceis, foliis petiolatis cordato-ovatis ob- 
at eeerext 
THE GENUS, Justicia. Catryx 4-5 cleft, bracte- 
d.. ANTHERS 2-celled, cells often separate. 
cd ‘ells two-seeded, dissepiment bearing the 
‘hooked processes of the placenta adnate. 
DeEscrIPTION OF THE SpEciES, Justicia Speciosa. Survs tall, 
spreading; stem and old branches ash-coloured, younger branches 
green, glabrous, rounded, scarcely striated. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
ovate, acuminate; lower and larger leaves subcordate, and crenate, 
dark green, roughish above, paler beneath; nerves oblique, promi- 
nent on the under surface. Pepuncues axillary and terminal, often 
proliferous, few-flowered. Bracrs forming a double involucre, cilia- 
ted on the margins; the outer circle composed of four leaflets, two of 
which are oblong, two spathulato-oblong; the inner circle consisting 
of four upright, lanceolate, smaller, leaflets, surrounding each flower. 
Catyx small, of 5 deep, linear, acute segments. CoroLta purple, 
externally pubescent; tube very long, curved, singularly twisted, limb 
divided into an upper and under lip, which by the curvature of the 
tube are transposed; the upper (naturally under) lip broad, blunt, 
three-toothed, with one large, and several small dark spots at the base ; 
lower lip entire, or obscurely two-toothed. STaMENS two; filaments 
slender, long, extending much beyond the throat. ANTHERS of two 
cells, one obliquely above the other. Ovary ovate, with a fleshy an- 
nular disk. STYLE nearly as long as the stamens. Stiema obscurely 
two-cleft. 
