SPECIFIC CHARACTER
Justicia fruticosa: foliis ellipticis, acuminatis: racemis spicæformibus, verticillatis: bracteis minutis: pedicellis calycibusque glabris.
Swartz. Flora Indiæ occidentalis.
Habitat in insulis Jamaicæ, S. Christophori, Martiniquæ, S. Crucis, et Guadalupæ.
Justicia with a shrubby stem: leaves elliptic and pointed: raceme in the form of a spike, whorled: floral leaves small: footstalks and calyx smooth.
Native of Jamaica, St. Christopher, Martinique, St. Croix, and Guadaloupe.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open.
2. Seed-bud and pointal,
3. The capsule.
4. The same split open.