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JUSTICIA GENICULATA. JOINTED STALKED 
JUSTICIA. 
REEEERER ERE EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 
Dranpria Monoeynta. 
Generic Character. 
_ Cal. 5-partitus, equalis, raro 4-partitus. Cor. valde 
_ Iregularis, bilabiata vel ringens, labio inferiore diviso. 
_ Stam. 2, antherifera. Anthere biloculares, loculis inser- 
tone sepe inequalibus. Filamenta sterilia nulla, vel 
_ obsoleta. Germinis loculi dispermi. Dissepimentum ad- 
_hatum ; semina retinaculis uncinulatis subtensa. Brown. 
Specific Character. 
Justicia geniculata ; paniculis terminalibus laxis cernuis, 
bracteis subulatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris sub- 
tus pallidis distantibus. 
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This species has great affinity with Justicia secunda 
(supra, No. 2060) and lucida (No. 1014); but differs from 
the former in having the upper lip of the corolla quite entire 
and the lower lip terminated with three obtuse rounded 
teeth; from the latter in having fewer and smaller flowers, 
hot crowded together, leaves much narrower, more pointed, 
not deeurrent down the footstalk ; and from both in having 
&more lax, cernuous panicle, with a much longer, naked 
peduncle. Introduced into the garden of the Horticultural 
Society from St. Vincent’s, by Mr. Groree Carey, under 
the name which we have adopted, given to it by the late 
Dr. Axperson, several years superintendent of the Botanic 
Garden in that island. Mr. Caxey informs us that it loves 
to 8row in the shade. Native 
