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.


[Pg 37]