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2. Jacobinia stellata Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 29: 390. 1894. 

 Type from barranca of Tequila, Jalisco. 



Plants finely stellate-pubescent throughout; leaves short-petiolate, lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 13.5 cm. long, acuminate; flowers in few-flowered cymes 

 in the upper axils; calyx glandular-pubescent, the lobes linear-oblanceolate, 

 acutish; corolla reddish purple, 4 cm. long. 



3. Jacobinia purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 195. 1915. 

 Chiapas; type from Finca Irlanda. 



Plants chiefly herbaceous, the stems villosulous; leaves slender-petiolate, ovate- 

 oblong to broadly ovate, 5 to 9 cm. long, acuminate, acute to rounded at base, 

 villosulous or sometimes hirsute beneath; flowers in small sessile terminal clusters; 

 corolla yellow (?), about 7 cm. long, glandular-villous. 



4. Jacobinia paniculata Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1854: 153. 



1855. 



Veracruz; cultivated at Guanajuato; type material from Mirador and Colipa, 

 Veracruz. Central America. 



Plants suffrutescent, glabrous or nearly so; leaves petiolate, lance-oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate, acute at base; flowers in lax terminal panicles; calyx 

 16 mm. long or less; corolla red and yellow, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, pubescent. 



5. Jacobinia albicaulis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 386. 1913. 

 Type from Banos del Carrizal, Veracruz. 



Shrub, the branches glabrous; leaves nearly sessile, oblong-obovate, 6 to 12.5 

 cm. long, short-acuminate, cuneate-attenuate at base, scaberulous above, sparsely 

 puberulent or glabrate beneath; flowers cymose-paniculate; calyx 7 mm. long, 

 glabrate; corolla red, 18 mm. long, glabrous. 



6. Jacobinia auriculata Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 349. 1895. 

 Type from Colima. 



Shrub, 1 meter high, the branchlets quadrangular; leaves sessile and clasping, 

 lance-oblong or ovate-oblong, 8 to 15 cm. long, acuminate, rather abruptly atten- 

 uate, glabrate; flowers in a dense terminal panicle; corolla crimson, 2.5 cm. long. 



7. Jacobinia incana (Nees) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 521. 1882. 

 Sericographis incana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 361. 1847. 



Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosf; reported from Veracruz; type 

 from Tolimdn (Querctaro ?). 



Shrub, about 1 meter high, the branches densely pubescent; leaves petiolate, 

 oblong to ovate, 6 to 14 cm. long, usually obtuse, acute or decurrent at base; 

 flowers in few-flowered axillary and terminal cymes; corolla red, 4 cm. long. 

 "Muicle" (Nuevo Le6n, Tamaulipas). 



Used in Tamaulipas as a remedy for colic. 



8. Jacobinia spicigera (Schlecht.) L. H. Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 1715. 1915. 

 Juslicia spicigera Schlecht. Linnaea 7: 395. 1832. 



Justicia atramentaria Benth. PI. Hartw. 69. 1840. 



Drejera willdenowiana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 334. 1847. 



Sericographis mohintli Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 361. 1847. 



Jacobinia mohintli Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 521. 1882. 



Tepic to San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, and Chiapas; often cultivated; type from 

 Jalapa, Veracruz. Central America. 



Shrub, 1 to 1.5 meters high, the branches puberulent or glabrate; leaves short- 

 petiolate, lance-oblong to ovate, 6 to 17 cm. long, usually acute, glabrate; flowers 

 in few-flowered, axillary or terminal cymes; corolla red or orange, 3 to 3.5 cm. 

 long. "Micle" (Guerrero, Durango); "mohuith," "muicle," "moictle," "mui- 

 cli," "moytli," "mohitli," "mohintli," "mohintle" (Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Quere- 

 taro, Mexico, etc.; derivatives of the Nahuatl mohuitli, "blue"); "hierba del 



