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JUSTICIA flavicoma. 
Hairy Yellow-headed Justicia. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Acanthace*. 
JUSTICIA. Suprd, vol. A.fol. 309. 
J. flavicoma; (antherae loculis parallelis) ; panicula terminali congesta, 
calycis laciniis subulatis glandulosis corolla breyioribus, corollae lacinia 
superiore emarginata, inferiore tripartita revoluta, foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis acuminatis undulatis breviter petiolatis albinerviis. 
. Caulis articuli breves, medio tumidi. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acumina- 
tissima, undulata, minute pubescentia, breviter petiolata, costa yenisque 
primariis suboppositis pallidis. Panicula terminals, congesta, omnino lutea, 
undique, corolla excepta,pilis brevibus, flexuosis, capitatis, crassiusculispul- 
cherrime vestita. Bractere laciniaeque calycis subulate, corolla breviores. 
Corolla glaberrima, infundibularis, breviter bilabiata, labio superiore emar- 
ginato, inferiore 3-partito, revoluto: laciniis subaqualibus. Stamina duo, 
faucis longitudine, loculis antherarum parallelis. Stylus glaber, flliformis. 
Stigma subclavatum, acutum, bilobum. 
For this very beautiful plant we are much indebted 
to Thomas Carey Palmer, Esquire, in whose valuable 
collection, at Bromley, it flowered in May last. 1 lie 
seeds had been received from Brazil. 
A stove plant, requiring, we presume, no particulai 
mode of treatment, and, probably, to be readily increased 
by cuttings. 
This is so very similar to the J. calytricha, figured 
by Dr. Hooker, in his Exotic Flora, tab. 212, that for 
some time we were disposed to believe it the very same. 
But, upon comparing more carefully our specimens with 
Dr. Hooker s figure, we have been obliged to conclude 
that they are really distinct. The plant represented ini the 
Exotic Flora has extremely long stalks to the leaves, which 
