pubescence, similar to that of the leaves. Corolla two to 
three inches long, quite glabrous, the tube angular: the 
upper lip)straight, narrow, the apex recurved, emarginate, 
the lower-lip tri-partite, revolute. Stamens exserted. <An- 
thers yellow, oblong, formed of two parallel cells. Cap- 
sule ovate, compressed, tapering at the base, so as to be 
fe . ? tint of aha 
he figure which I gave of this plant in the Exotic Flora 
being taken from a very indifferent specimen of the plant, 
I am not surprised that Mr. Linptey in the Botanical 
Register should have expressed an opinion, that it was 
probably a different species from his Justicia flavicoma. 
A specimen afterwards sent me by the Messrs. SHEPHERDS 
from the same plant as that figured in the Exotic Flora, 
corresponds in every owe ge with Mr. Linptey’s plate: 
as does an individual which is now in flower (February 
1828) in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
It is, indeed, a most desirable inhabitant of the stove, and 
its shewy blossoms are of considerable duration. Its native 
country is Brazil, and the plant from which our drawing 
was taken flowered in the collection of Mrs. Paumer, at 
Bromley, Kent. It is liable, however, to much variation in 
the size and shape of the leaves, and in the relative length 
of the petioles. The curious pubescence, which Mr. Linp- 
LEY justly describes, upon the leaves. is only to be seen under 
the microscope, and, in the calyx, is frequently altogether 
wanting. 
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Fig. 1 and 2. Back and front view.of the Anther—Magnifeed. 
