. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . or distinct sharp point; petiolesilkily furred. Flowers yellow, oblong, about an inch anda quarter long^ longer than the leaves parallelly paired:peduncles short, very thick. Calyx pale green, mem-branous, villous, twice shorter than the vexillum, tubu-larly oblong, slightly swollen, slightly compressed, veryshallowly bilabiate; lips straight contracted, upper one ob-tUse notched, lower one ovate tapered tridenticulate. with a hardish cuneate folded unguis, of the length ofthe round lamina, which last is bent back at the s
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . or distinct sharp point; petiolesilkily furred. Flowers yellow, oblong, about an inch anda quarter long^ longer than the leaves parallelly paired:peduncles short, very thick. Calyx pale green, mem-branous, villous, twice shorter than the vexillum, tubu-larly oblong, slightly swollen, slightly compressed, veryshallowly bilabiate; lips straight contracted, upper one ob-tUse notched, lower one ovate tapered tridenticulate. with a hardish cuneate folded unguis, of the length ofthe round lamina, which last is bent back at the sides andwaved at the upper part of the margin: wings not muchshorter than this, oblong, obtuse, pressed closely to thesides of the keel, wrinkled at the edge: keel greenish, ob-longly falcate, as much shorter than the wings as these areshorter than the vexillum. Filaments monadelphous: an-thers deep yellow, oblong. Germen linear, compressed,silkily furred: style but little shorter than this, subulate,nearly smooth: stigfna a blunt slightly pubescent 309 JUSTICIA Eustatia Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNL4. Nat. ord. Acanthi. ,Tuss{eu gen. 102. Div. II,AcANTHACE^ii. Broxvn prod. 472. JUSTICIA. Cal. acqualis, 5-partitus. Vor. valde irregularis, , V. ringens, labio inferiore diviso. Anth. 2-loc., lociilis insertionesaepius inccqualibns. Fil. sterilia nulla v. obsoleta. Germinis lociili adnatum. Sem. retinaculis subtensa. Hcrbce v. frutices:caulescenies, iriflorescentia varia. Brown 1. c. 475. Div. Cal^ce simplici, corollis hilahiatis: lahih euslachiana^ truticosa, corollis bilabiatis divisis, toliis oblon^is acuminati«, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque, bracteis verticillis remotis lanceolatis, antheris Solander in Sched. Banks, ad exemplariiim spontaneum in Herb. Banks, eustacbiana. Vahl. symb. 2. 15. Ejusd. enum. 1. 144. , 4. t. 4. Willd. sp. pi. I. 93. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 139. Frutex ram
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