568 J U S T I C I A. 
the flowers, which come out fingly from the axils, are 
fmall, and of a pale-red colour. Dr. Houftoun fent it 
from Jamaica to England ; and therefore Mr. Miller cul¬ 
tivated it before 1733, in which year Dr. Houftoun died. 
His fpecitnen is in the Bankfian Herbarium. 
73. Julticia repanda, or flat-leaved jufticia : lhrubby 5 
leaves elliptic, repand ; peduncle axillary, trifid; corollas 
fa!ver-lhaped ; antherae parallel. Native of the ifland of 
Tnr.na in the South Seas; difcovered there the 13th of 
Auguft 1774. 
74. Jufticia armata, or armed jufticia : lhrubby; prick¬ 
ly; leaves oblong, emarginate, coriaceous, fhining. 75. 
jufticia acicularis, or needled jufticia : lhrubby ; diffufed, 
fipiny ; fpines briltle-lhaped ; flowers peduncled, axillary, 
folitary. Natives of Jamaica. 
VI. New Species. 76. Jufticia reptans, or crawling 
jufticia: Hem herbaceous, creeping; leaves blunt; fpike 
terminating, undivided. Annual. Native of St. Domingo. 
77. Jufticia humifufa, or moift jufticia : Item herbace¬ 
ous, decumbent; leaves ovatej and cordate ; fpikes uni- 
belled. Annual. Native of Jamaica. 
78. Jufticia nemorofa, or tufted jufticia : Item herbace¬ 
ous, four-cornered, fomewhat upright; leaves ovate-lan¬ 
ceolate ; fpikes ovate. Perennial. Native of Jamaica and 
Hifpaniola. 
79. Jufticia fruticofa, or lhrubby jufticia: lhrubby; 
leaves ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, hirl'ute, petioled ; braftes 
cordate-acuminate. This rifes with a hairy lhrubby Item 
four to five feet high, dividing into feveral branches. Leaves 
four inches long, and two inches and a half broad, oppo- 
fite, on foot-ftalks above an inch long; at the bafe of 
thefe comes out a duller of fmall leaves. Flowers in 
loofe clutters from the axils towards the end of the 
branches, of a pale red colour. Dilcovered by Dr. Houf¬ 
toun at Campeachy. 
80. jufticia arborea, or branching jufticia: arboreous; 
leaves lanceolate-ovate, feflile, tomentofe underneath ; 
flowers in clultered terminating fpikes. This riles with 
a ltrong w'oody item twenty feet high, dividing into many 
crooked irregular branches, covered with a light-brown 
bark. Leaves near four inches long and two broad, 
which are covered with a foft down on their under fide. 
Three, four, or five, fpikes arife from the fame point; the 
middle one near three inches long, and the others about 
half that length. The flowers are fmall and white. It 
was found by Dr. Houftoun at Campeachy; and was cul¬ 
tivated by Mr. Miller before 1733. 
81. Jufticia montana, or mountain jufticia: Items many, 
ftriated, jointed, fmooth, leaning on the ground, and root¬ 
ing at the joints. Young flioots four-fided; leaves oppo- 
fite; petioled, oval, pointed, declining, running down the 
petiole, from three to four inches long, and about two 
broad; fpikes many, terminal, ereft, (lender; peduncle 
four-fided. Braftes oupofite, decuflated, linear, acute, 
hairy, one-flowered ; brafteolae two to each of the bractes, 
prefling laterally the calyx, like the large exterior one, 
but much fmaller. Flowers oppolite, decuflated, of a very 
pale blue. It is a fmall draggling, jointed, under-lhrub; 
a native of the mountains of Coromandel ? flowers dur¬ 
ing the cold feafon. 
82. Jufticia pulchella, or elegant jufticia: items many, 
ere£t, or nearly fo, from two to three feet high; branches 
round; young flioots four-fided; fmooth. Leaves as in 
the former, but much larger, being from fix.to nine inches 
long, and from three to four broad ; they are of a much 
deeper and brighter green. Spikes as in the former, but 
larger. Braftes difpofed as in the former, but much larger; 
broad, ciliated, and Hand much nearer one another. Flow¬ 
ers large, numerous, of a deep bright blue. A very beau¬ 
tiful flowering Ihrub; a native of dry, uncultivated, fliady, 
places on the coaft of Coromandel; flowers during the 
cold feafon. This is the fpecies Ihown on the annexed 
Engraving, from Dr. Roxburgh. 
83. Jufticia bicolor. A new fpecies; native of Lu$on, 
one of the Philippine iflands, whence the feeds were tranf* 
mitted by Mr. William Keat, one of the gardeners fent 
abroad by his majefty to collect plants for the royal gar¬ 
den at Kew. It appears to be an aeauifition to our ltoves. 
The name feems to have been fuggefted by.fome fimila- 
rity in the form of the flowers to Viola tricolor. This 
plant is well deferibed in the Botanical Magazine. la 
the Botanical Repofitory it is erroneoufly faid to be a na¬ 
tive of Jamaica. 
To the above copious lift of Jufticias we might add 
many more, that have been difcovered in the Eaft and 
Well Indies, at the Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, 
&c. but thefe are not yet fufficiently known or determin¬ 
ed to lay them before the public. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are all the pro¬ 
duce of warm climates; not one is a native of Europe. 
Moll of them, except a few from the Cape, require the 
proteflion of the bark-ftove. They may be propagated 
from feeds, where thefe can be obtained; and the greater 
part, being lhrubby, may alfobe increafed from cuttings. 
Many of them are beautiful, and would be a great orna¬ 
ment to the (love ; but few only are yet introduced among 
us. N° 57, the Malabar nut, may be propagated by cut¬ 
tings, which, if planted in pots in June or July, and 
plunged into a very moderate hot-bed, will take root; 
but they mull be every day fereened from the fun ; and, 
if the external air is excluded from them, they will fuc- 
ceed better than when it is admitted to them. It may 
alfo be propagated by laying down the young branches, 
which will take root in the tubs or pots in one year; then 
the young plants ihculd be put each into a feparate pot, 
filled with foft loamy earth, and placed in the ihade till 
they have taken new root, when they may be placed in a 
flieltered fituation during the fummer, but in winter they 
mult be houfed, and treated in the fame way as orange- 
trees, with only this dilference, that thefe require more 
water. The fnap-tree, N° 64, is propagated by cuttings 
during any of the fummer months ; they Ihould be planted 
in pots filled with light loamy earth, and plunged into a 
moderate hot-bed, and (haded from the fun, and now and 
then gently refrefhed with water, and not too much air 
admitted to them. In about two months the cuttings 
will have taken root; then they mult be gradually inured 
to the open air, by placing them in a flieltered fituation, 
where they may remain till autumn ; if they get root 
early in the fummer, feparate them each into a Fmall pot, 
fetting them in the fliade till they have taken new r root, 
and place them as above directed; but, if it be late in 
the feafon before they have taken root, let them remain 
in the fame pots till the following fpring. In winter 
thefe plants mult be placed in a warm green-houfe or 1110- 
derately-warm ftove, for they are impatient of cold- and 
damp, nor will they thrive in too much warmth. They 
will often require water in winter, but it mult then be 
given them moderately. In fummer they mult be removed 
into the open air, in a warm flieltered fituation ; and in 
warm weather they mult have plenty of water. 
N° 12, 13, 16, 72, 79, and 80, may all be propagated 
by feeds, fown early in the fpring, in fmall pots filled with 
frelli light earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of 
tanners’ bark, obferving to water the earth gently as it 
appears dry. The feeds frequently lying a year in the 
ground, the pots mult not be dilturbed, if they Ihould not 
appear ; but in the winter Ihould be kept in the ftove, 
and the fpring following plunged into a frelh hot-bed. 
When the plants begin to appear, the glades of the hot¬ 
bed fliould be raifed every day, when the weather is warm, 
to admit frelh air; they mult alfo be frequently watered in 
warm weather, but not largely whilft the plants are young, 
for they are then fubject to rot at bottom with uch 
moilture. When the plants are about two inches high, 
take them up carefully, and tranfplant each into a fmall 
pot filled with frelli light earth, plunging them i-v.o the 
liot-bed again, watering and (hading them till ;<•■■/ have 
taken new root; then they Ihould have air a ..nutted to, 
them every day in proportion to the warmth af the tea¬ 
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