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corolla 1| inch, purplish-pink, tube slender, limb deeply 2-lipped. 

 Syn. Justicia speciosa. 



A much-grown winter- flowering stove plant. To flower well 

 it should be rested at the end of the summer and be placed in the 

 open air for three weeks or so. 

 Petalidium 



barlerioides, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Ear." iii. 82 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." 

 t. 4053). — India, up to 3,000 feet elevation. Undershrub ; leaves 

 ovate, crenate, hoary or dusky, puberulous ; peduncles axillary, 

 solitary ; bracteoles J inch, reticulated, becoming scarious ; corolla 

 campanulate, pale blue or white, tube ventricose from nearly the 

 base, 1 inch long. 

 Phaylopsis 



parviflora (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 2433). A plant of botanical interest 

 only. 



Phlog:acanthus.— Handsome shrubs. 



asperulus, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Ear." iii. 99 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." 

 t. 2845 as Justicia quadrangularis). — Assam. Shrubby, erect. 

 Leaves elliptic, glabrous, serrate upwards ; panicles linear, sub- 

 thyrsoid, terminal, 4 inches long, somewhat pubescent ; bracts and 

 calyx very small ; flowers purple, yellow- marked ; corolla \ inch, 

 funnel-shaped, the tube being suddenly curved and inflated at the 

 summit. Syn. Justicia aspcrula, Lodd. " Bot. Cab." t. 1681. See 

 also "Bot. Beg." t. 1340. 

 CUPVifloPUS, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Ear." iii. 99 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." 

 t. 3783). — Khasia and Burma up to 4,000 feet elevation. Shrub. 

 Leaves elliptic, nearly glabrous ; thyrse villous, 8 inches long, 

 short-peduncled ; flowers villous, nearly 2 inches long, red, tube 

 curved, scarcely widened upwards. Much cultivated in Indian 

 gardens and about temples. 

 g-uttatUS, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Ear." iii. 99 ; (fig. " Bot. Beg." 

 t. 1334). — Khasia, up to 4,000 feet elevation. Leaves elliptic, 

 glabrous ; panicles 6 inches long, terminal, solitary or 2-3 together, 

 slightly pubescent ; flowers pubescent ; corolla J inch, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip suberect, shortly 2-lobed, yellow ; lower 3-lobed, green, 

 purple-spotted. 



Popphyrocoma 



lanceolata, Scheidw. in "Journ. Hort. Prat." iii. p. 72; (fig. "Bot. 

 Mag." t. 4176). — Brazil. Erect herb. Leaves sessile, elliptic ; 

 spikes cone-like, terminal ; flowers purple, with large red imbricated 

 bracts. Syn. Dianthcra Pohliana. 



A showy plant, rather common in cultivation. 

 RhinacanthllS. — A genus only of botanical interest. 



communis, DC, " Prod." xi. 442 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 325).— India. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, up to 4 inches long by 1), inch 

 broad ; panicle terminal or axillary, large, spreading, dusky- 

 pubescent, 3-cleft ; flowers often clustered ; bracts and bracteoles 

 very small ; calyx pubescent ; corolla- tube 1 inch long, narrow, 

 the three lower lobes of the limb each twice as broad as the 



