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_Jusricta Lucipa, Suinine-Leavep Jusricta. 
FEE EE EE IE Ee Ee ae ee ae 
Cla/s and Order. 
Dranpria Monoexrnta,. 
Generic Chara&er. 
Cal. fimplex vel duplex. Cor. irregularis vel fubregularis. 
Cap/: 2-valvis, 2-locularis: diffepimentum valvulis contrarium : 
retinaculis feminum uncinulatis. Vaut. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_ *** Calyce fimplici, corollis bilabiatis : labiis divifis.—Dianthera. 
JUSTICIA /ucida ; racemis terminalibus compofitis fubcapitatis, 
foliolis calycis bra€teifque fubulatis, foliis ovatis acu- 
tis integerrimis glabris in petiolum decurrentibus. 
JUSTICIA lucida. Vabl Enum. 2. p. 400. Bot. Repo/. t. 313. 
Donn’s Cant. p. 5. 
Descr., Stem perennial, {mooth, round, ftriate, dilated at 
the infertions of the leaves, feldom exceeding three feet in 
height ; dranches few and only from the lower part. Leaves 
oblong-ovate, acute, leathery, ftrongly veined, entire, dark 
green, {mooth, decurrent down the foot-ftalk. Flowers ter- 
minal in a compaét, compounded raceme: partial peduncles 
oppofite, bearing three to five flowers placed alternately on fhort 
pedicles. Braées fubulate, fhorter than calyx. Calyx fimple, 
five-parted : fegments linear-lanceolate, pubefcent. Corolla 
deep fcarlet, tubular, bilabiate, fomewhat curved, three or | 
four times longer than calyx; upper lip entire, lower lip 
three-toothed. Filaments purple, {mooth: Anthers binate, 
pedicled. Germen ovate: Style the length of corolla, filiform, 
clothed with fhort hairs, remaining after the fall of corolla: 
Stigma truncate. Both herb and flowers fcentlefs. 
Among the addenda at the end of the fecond volume of the 
Enumeratio Plantarum of Prof. Vaux; this fpecies is taken up 
from the Botanift’s Repofitory, and is properly direéted to be 
arranged next to Justicia fecunda ; to which it is indeed very 
nearly allied, if it be not a mere variety of it. At firlt fight it 
bears a ftrong refemblance to Justicia coccinea (Bot. Mag. 
No. 432); but, upon clofer examination, thefe plants differ in al- 
moft every point. The prefent is by much the moft defirable, 
from its eafy culture, ready flowering, and more convenient fize. 
Native of Barbadoes, but, as we believe, not of the Eatt- 
Indies, as iserroneoufly ftated in Bot. Repof. and thence repeated 
in Enum. Plantarum. Propagated, with great facility, by cut- 
_ tings. Blooms in Auguft and September. Introduced about the 
_ year1794. Requires the heat of the bark ftove. 
