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Habitat: -Cultivated in gardens throughout India and 
Malaya; where wild, uncertain. 
A large elegant, ramous shrub, common in gardens, and one 
of our finest ornaments. I never saw it wild ; it is in flower most 
part of the year. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 
smooth pointed, generally variegated with large white spots, 
though sometimes of a uniform green, and we have a variety 
with the leaves uniformly ferruginous. Racemes terminal, short, 
erect, smooth. Flowers large, generally of a beautiful crimson 
colour. Bracts opposite ; below three or four-flowered ; above 
one-flowered. Corolla throat compressed, divisions of the border 
soon after they expand becoming spirally revolute, with their 
inside wrinkled, and beautifully ornamented with small chrys- 
talline specks (Roxburgh). 
Uses : — In the Konkan, it is used in the same manner as 
Adhatoda Vasica, Nees. According to Rumphius, the variegated 
variety is used pounded with the milk of the cocoauut to reduce 
swelling. Loureirs states that the leaves are emollient and 
resolvent, and notices their use as a cataplasm to inflamed 
breasts caused by obstruction to the flow of milk (Dymock). 
939. Itungia repens, Necs., ii.f.u.i., iv. 549. 
Syn. : — Justicia repens, iLinn., Loxb. 44. 
Vern. : — Kodaga saleh (Tam.); Chatipitpapada (Bomb ) 
Habitat : — Common throughout India, from the Punjab and 
Bengal to Ceylon. 
A procumbent herb, rooting, ramous weed, says Clarke. 
Stems usually decumbent, says Triman, and rooting at the base, 
thin, erect, slender, cylindric puberulous. Branches quadran- 
gular, pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong or lanceolate- 
linear, l-2in., on very short petiole, acute at base, subacute at 
apex, entire glabrous, densely lineolate above (so as to be rough 
when dried). Spikes long, l|-ain., 4-sidcd, erect, terminal. 
Bracts much imbricated, all similar, nearly \\n., broadly-oval, 
obtuse, sharply mucronate, pubescent, very slightly ciliale, 
