JACABANDA (Brazilian name). Bignonidcew. J. 

 ovalifolia perliaps ranks among the 100 best flowering 

 trees or slirubs for subtropical regions. The foliage is 

 as finely cut as a fern, symmetrical and elegant. The 

 leaves are decussate, distant, each one with 16 or more 

 pairs of pinnae, each pinna having 14-24 pairs of leaf- 

 lets. Theplantbearsloose,pyramidalpanicles,8in.high, 

 of 40-90 blue fls., each 2 in. long and 1% in. wide, which 

 have a long, bent, swelling tube and the 2 lobes of one 

 lip smaller than the 3 other lobes. Prom S. Fla. It is 

 one of the best of foliage plants for the S., valuable 

 alike for florists' decorations, conservatory, subtropical 

 bedding in the North, or for lawn specimens in Florida, 

 where, if cut back by frost, it rapidly recovers its beauty. 

 It reaches a height of 20 ft. or more. It is commonly 

 planted in parts of S. Calif., and attains a height of 50 

 ft. and more. This species is also cult, in Europe under 

 glass. Jacarandaisa genusofaboutSO tropical American 

 species, mostly Brazilian: trees, with Ivs. opposite, 2- 

 pinnate, rarely 1-pinnate: Ifts. usually numerous, en- 

 tire or dentate: fls. showy blue or violet, panicled ; 

 corolla lobes rotund; perfect stamens 4, didynamous; 

 starainode about as long as the stamens, club-shaped at 

 the apex and often bearded at the top. 



ovaUfdUa, B. Br. (./. mimnsafdlia, D. Don). Lvs. 

 distant, spreading, oblong, villous: fls. more or less 

 horizontal. S. Amer. B.R. 8:631. B.M. 2327. R.H. 

 1897:132. E. N. Beasoner and W M. 



JACK BEAN. Refer to Canavalia. 



JACK FRUIT. Artocarpus integrifolia. 



JACK-IN-A-BOX. HeniamUa. 



JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. Sue Aris<ema. 



JACOBaiA. All included in Senecio. 



JACOBlNIA (probably a personal name). AcanthA- 

 /^ete. A polymorphous genus of 30 or 40 tropical 

 American herbs or shrubs, including the genera Libonia, 

 Sericographis and Cyrtanthera. Plants cultivated for 

 their narrow-tubular red, orange or yellow fls.: lvs. op- 

 posite and entire: calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear or 

 awl-shaped segments; corolla more or less 2-lipped, 

 one lip 2-lobed and the other 3-lobed ; stamens 2 ; stami- 

 nodia represented by two hairy elevations on the corolla 

 tube; pistil ripening into an oblong or 'ovate capsule, 

 the style filiform, the ovary surrounded by a disk. 



Jacobinias, in common with other Acanthads, are 

 much confused as to species. A closely allied genus is 

 Justicia, which, among other characters, is distinguished 

 by having spurs or appendages at the base of the an- 

 ther lobes, whereas Jacobinia has no such appendages. 

 Other allied genera are Aphelandra, Dianthera. Ad- 

 hatoda, Thyrsacanthus, Eranthemum, Barleria, Dteda- 

 lacanthus. 



Jacobinias are mostly subshrubs iu their native places, 

 but they are usually treated as herbs under cultivation. 

 They are showy greenhouse or conservatory subjects. 

 When well grown they are attractive plants, but they 

 soon become weedy under neglect. They propagate very 

 readily from cuttings, after the manner of fuchsias, 

 and the most satisfactory plants are usually those which 

 are allowed to bloom but once. Most of them thrive well 

 under conditions suited to begonias. 



A. Fls. in a more or less dense terminal panicle or 

 Ihyrse : corolla long, more or less curved . sta- 

 mens fixed to the middle or near the top of co- 

 rolla titbe. (Subgenus Cyrtanthera.) 

 magnifica, Benth. & Hook. [Cyrtanthera magnifica, 

 Nees. Justiciamagnifica, Pohl). Strong forking herb 

 or subshrub, blooming when 1 or 2 ft. high, but becom- 



ing several feet high if allowed to grow: stems 4-an- 

 gled : lvs. opposite, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate to 

 oval-oblong, narrow or broad at base, attenuate to apex, 

 wavy-margined, veiny, downy, sometimes a foot long: 

 fls. rose-purple, ascending, arched at the top and the 

 lower lip recurving, borne in dense terminal spike-like 

 G.F. 5:317. Var. c4rnea (.rusticia 

 M. h:is:!. B.R. 



made 



lowing 



ry, the 



Give 



crfrHeff, Hook.) has flesh-colorod 

 17:1397.-A handsome old plant.. ,f ,■,„ 

 culture in a conservatory tem|H i-.tiin. . 



in Feb. or March should bli> n 



winter. Young plants are usually ihm-i 

 old ones being kept over only for cutt 

 rich soil, and plenty of water in the growing season. 



PoMUna, Benth. & Hook. (Curtanthh-a Pohliina, 

 Nees). Much like J. miniiiifica, but more robust and 



quite cordate at the h:\se, more glabrous, often pm-ple- 



one form obtuse. Brazil. — V'oss ounsiders J. magnifica, 

 var. carnea to be synonymous with J. Pohiiana. 



Var. veltltina, Hort. (J. velidina and Justicia velii- 

 tiiia, Hort. Cyrtanthera PnhliUnn, var velutina, 

 Nees). Dwarf: bracts obtitse : lvs. villous-pubescent 

 on both surfaces : fls 2 in. long, rose-color. Brazil. 

 Gng. 7:212. A.F 14:998. -A worthy plant of compara- 

 tively recent introduction in this country. It is an ex- 

 cellent pot subject and has been considerably adver- 

 tised recently as the "New Dwarf Justicia velutina ." A 

 profuse and continuous bloomer. Cultural remarks un- 

 der J. magnifica also apply to this. 



AA. Fls. in a dense terminal spike: corolla long and 



curved: stamens fixed to the base of the tube. 



{Subgenus Polystachys.) 



coccinea, Hiern. {Justicia coccinea, Aubl.). Erect 



herb or subshrub, usually grown from cuttings each 



year and treated as a pot subject: 2-5 ft. high: branches 



terete: lvs. elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, entire, glabrous 



1190. Jacobinia Penrhosiensis (X }^. 



or nearly so : fls. crimson, in a dense terminal spike, 

 pubescent, the long upper lip more or less arched and 

 the lower one reflexed. Brazil. B.M. 432. -Blooms in 

 summer. Said to be known sometimes as Aphelandra 

 cristata. 



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