ACANTHACEAE. 



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1. Justicia secunda Vahl., Red Justicia. 

 (Fig. 386.) Shrubby, 8° high or less, piiberu- 

 lent above, the stems and branches nearly terete. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 8' long 

 or less, rather thin, long-acuminate at the apex, 

 mostly obtuse or rounded at the base; panicles 

 terminal, narrow, 4'-10' long; pedicels very 

 short; bracts subulate, about 1" long; calyx- 

 segments linear-lanceolate, 3"-4i" long; corolla 

 red or red-purple, about 1^' long, its lips longer 

 than its tube; capsule about 5" long. 



Banks and thickets, locally escaped from cul- 

 tivation. Introduced. Native of the West Indies. 

 Flowers in summer and autumn. 



Thunbergiso alata Bojer, Winged Thun- 

 BERGiA, African, a softly pubescent vine up to 

 6° long, with broad-petioled ovate hastate acute 

 leaves, and solitary axillary long-peduncled 

 large-bracted flowers, the calyx many-toothed, 

 the corolla yellow or white, often with a dark 

 eye, the globose capsule long-beaked, is com- 

 monly grown in gardens. 



Thunbergia fragrans Roxb., White Thunbergia, East Indian, a nearly 

 glabrous slender vine sometimes 9° long, with slender-petioled ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire or few-toothed leaves and solitary axillary bracted long- 

 stalked mostly white flowers, the calyx many-toothed, as in the preceding 

 species, the subglobose capsule with a stout flattened beak, is occasionally 

 grown, according to Reade. 



Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb., Large-flowered Thunbergia, East In- 

 dian, a strongly-growing stout roughish vine up to 20° long, the large leaves 

 coarsely angulately toothed and cordate, the numerous large bracted white to 

 purplish flowers racemose, with a truncate calyx, the capsule stout-beaked, is 

 commonly grown for ornament. 



Thunbergia erecta T. Anders., Bush Thunbergia, Asiatic, a slender 

 shrub, up to 6° high, with thin entire ovate acuminate leaves, and large 

 solitary short-peduncled axillary purple or white flowers, the capsule conic 

 above the swollen base, is occasionally grown in gardens. 



Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl., Laurel-lea\^d Thunbergia, East Indian, 

 a glabrous high-climbing woody vine, with opposite petioled ovate-lanceolate 

 to oblong, firm leaves 4-6' long, the large showy flowers whorled in racemes 

 on pedicels i'-V long, the purple-blue corolla about 3' broad, with a white 

 throat and spreading 5-lobed limb was seen at Paget Rectory in 1914. 



Graptophyllum pictum (L.) Griff., Caricature Plant, Australasian, a 

 shrub 6° high or more, the elliptic acuminate entire short-petioled leaves 

 4-8' long, usually yellowish-blotched, the large crimson clustered flowers about 

 2' long, the pubescent corolla strongly 2-lipped, with a narrow tube expanded 

 above, is grown for ornament and interest. [G. hortense Nees; G. versicolor 

 of Lefroy.] 



Sanchesia nobilis Hook, f., Brilliant-floavered Sanchesia, South Ameri- 

 can, occasional in flower-gardens, is a stout herbaceous plant, nearly gla- 

 brous, with bluntly 4-angled stems 2°-4° high; its oblong acuminate crenate 



