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Justicia PERUVIANA. PERUVIAN JUSTICIA. 
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- Cla/s and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynia, 
eneric Charafier, 
F epee, 4 mee 
Cor. ringens. Cap/. 2-locularis: feminum retinaculis 9-valvis: 
valvis longitudinalibus unciculatis : Stam, anthera folitaria. 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
JUSTICIA peruviana fpicis axillaribus et terminalibus, foliis — 
ovatis acutis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. p. 97. 
JUSTICIA peruviana foliis ovatis acutis : fpicis brevibus 
axillaribus et terminalibus, floribus tribraéteatis. 
Cavan, Icon. 1. p. 17. n. 26. t. 28. 
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Descrtrtion. Stalk about two feet and a half high, nearly 
round, pubefcent, fwelled at the joints, branched ; branches 
Oppofite, nearly upright; leaves oppofite, ftanding on foot- 
ftalks, ovato-lanceolate, veiny, fmooth on the under fide, — 
above covered with fhort hairs ; flowers lar e, of a pale violet 
colour, growing in clufters in the alz of the le ves, intermixed 
with lanceolate bragtez about the length of the calyx; the 
upper lip contraéted near its extremity; where it is forked, 
the lower lip trifid, fegments obtufe, the bafe of the middle 
fegment reticulated with white veins; antherz greenifh, cells 
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parallel with and fomewhat d from each other ; ftyle the 4 
length of the ftamina, ne€tar copious. __ oe 
Our defcription and figure were | ken from a plant which — : 
flowered at Brompton, Auguft 18, 1796, in the ftove of the 
Marchionefs of Bute, and which had been raifed from feeds, — 
communicated by Profeffor Orteca, of Madrid, and fent 
originally from Peru. . = as 
It is properly a ftove plant; may be increafed by feeds, 
which it produces in abundance, or by cuttings; flowers during 
- the autumnal months, 
