Popvtar AND Geoarapnican Notice. Among the numerous 
splendid productions of tropical forests, this has been pronounced by 
Dr. Roxburgh, than whom scarcely any could be a more competent 
judge, “to be one of the greatest ornaments of the forests of the inte- 
rior of Bengal.” Many of the peculiar characters of the tribe of Acan- 
thacee may be studied in this plant; one of the most remarkable of 
which is the position of the two cells of the anthers, which are not 
opposite as in most instances of two-celled anthers, but obliquely one 
above the other. Nees von Essenbeck imagines that this irregularity 
is connected with a general tendency to unequal dichotomy, which is 
more particularly indicated by one of the opposite leaves being une- 
qual, by the bases of the leaves being frequently oblique, by the one- 
seeded spikes with two rows of abortive, and two of flower-bearing 
bracts, &c, The attachment of the seeds to the placente is also very 
peculiar, The seed-vessel opens with considerable elasticity and pro- 
pels the seeds to a distance. Several species of Justicia are fragrant, 
while others yield colouring principles. It is probable that the juice 
of the flowers of the Justicia speciosa would furnish the best pigment 
for colouring drawings of the flower, as is the case with the juice of 
the Tradescantia. 
InrTropucTION; WHERE Grown; CuLTuRE. This species first 
found a place in British gardens in 1826. It was raised by Lady 
Bunbury, of Barton Hall, Suffolk, from seeds received by her from 
St. Helena, to which island it had probably been introduced from the 
Botanic Garden, Caleutta. The plant from which we were kindly 
permitted to have a drawing made, flowered in the stove of Robert 
Barclay, Esq. of Leyton, Essex. The Justicia speciosa may be grown 
either as a stove or greenhouse plant, but its beauty is most perfectly 
developed in the stove, where it makes a noble appearance during au- 
tumn and part of the winter. It should be potted in rather strong 
rich loam, and have plenty of pot room. May be rapidly increased 
by —— at any season. 
Derivation or THE Names. 
2 Beep in compliment to ren James Justice, a Scotch Gardener, author of 
: . ritish Gardener's Director.” He lived about the middle of the last cen- 
ury. Spreciosa, shewy, from ‘es handsome appearance of the flowers. 
Syno 
Justicia Spectosa Roxb h: 
vol. I, p.85. Botani cal Mag ieee Tao Sprengel: Species Plantarum, 
