drawing was made in September 1833, in the Nursery of 
Mr. Knight, who obtained it from France in 1832. 
It is cultivated, like all the tribe, without any difficulty, 
and is easily multiplied by cuttings. 
The name we have adopted is that proposed by Professor 
Nees von Esenbeck, in his admirable revision of the Natural 
Order to which this plant belongs. To some it may appear 
that the principle of division has been pushed by our learned 
friend too far, and that genera have been unnecessarily 
multiplied. But we confess we entertain a very different 
opinion; for surely nothing can possibly be more at variance 
with the modern principles of Botany than such a genus 
as Justicia, as left even in the new edition of Willdenow, 
published in 1831. It is quite a relief to turn from such 
confused and unintelligible masses of species to the definite 
and lucid arrangements of men like Nees von Esenbeck. 
