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

 Heinzelia longiflora Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 314. 1847. Type from "Las 

 Ajuntas." 



Jacobinia macrophylla (Oerst.) Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. 

 Bot. 2: 521. 1882. Sericographis macrophylla Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn 

 Vid. Medd. 1854: 149. 1855. Type from Veracruz. 



Jacobinia oaxacana Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 39: 91. 1903. Type from 

 Oaxaca. 



Jacobinia virgata (Oerst.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 522. 1882- 

 Sericographis virgata Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1854: 154. 1855. 

 Type from Acatlan and Ejutla. Oaxaca. 



15. JUSTICIA L. Sp. PI. 15. 1753. 



Shrubs or herbs; leaves entire; flowers small or large, white, purplish, or red, 



variously arranged; calyx 4 or 5-parted, the segments narrow; corolla tube 



usually shorter than the limb, ampliate above, the limb bilabiate; stamens 2, 



the anther cells unequal, the lower one appendaged at base; ovules 2 in each cell. 



Several herbaceous species occur in Mexico. 



Leaves linear 1. J. linearis. 



Leaves much broader than linear. 

 Calyx glandular-pubescent. 



Calyx covered with sessile glands 2. J. hians. 



Calyx glandular-pilose 3. J. salviaeflora. 



Calyx without glandular pubescence. 



Bractlets spatulate, obtuse 4. J. palmeri. 



Bractlets linear-subulate 5. J. mexicana. 



1. Justicia linearis Robins. & Greenm. Amer. Journ. Sci. 50: 161. 1895. 

 Type from Las Tablas, San Luis Potosf. 



Plants tomentulose, fruticose; leaves 1-nerved, sessile, 2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. 

 wide; flowers axillary, sessile; calyx 8 mm. long; corolla 18 mm. long, pubescent. 



2. Justicia hians T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 194. 1915. 

 Beloperone hians T. S. Brandeg. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 2: 194. 1889. 

 Justicia insolita T. S. Brandeg. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 2: 195. 1889. 

 Baja California; type from Comondu. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches minutely whitish-puberulent; leaves 

 short-petiolate, oblong to oval or lance-oblong, 1 to 3.5 cm. long, obtuse or acute, 

 sparsely pubescent or glabrate; flowers in few-flowered interrupted spikes; 

 corolla 2 to 2.5 cm. long. 



Brandegee has referred /. palmeri Rose to synonymy under J. hians. A 

 specimen of the latter species, presumably of the type collection, seen by the 

 writer is identical with J. insolita. 



3. Justicia salviaeflora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 233. 1817. 

 Justicia paniculata Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 348. 1895. 

 Jalisco to Oaxaca and Morelos; described from cultivated plants. 



Plants suffrutescent, the branches glandular-pilose; leaves petiolate, lance- 

 oblong or oblong-ovate, 5 to 8 cm. long, acuminate, acute at b.ise, pubescent; 

 flowers mostly in few-flowered secund spikes, sometimes cymose; corolla 1.5 to 

 2 cm. long, red. 



4. Justicia palmeri Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 75. 1890. 

 Baja California; type from La Paz. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches minutely cinereous-tomentulose; 

 leaves short-petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, 4 to 7 cm. long, obtusely acuminate, 

 obtuse or acute at base, glabrous or nearly so; flowers fasciculate in the axils or in 

 short leafy-bracted spikes; corolla red, 3 to 3.5 cm. long. 



