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JusTICcIA NERVOSA. BLUE-FLOWERED> 
Justicia. 
TERRE i eR ek eee 
Cla/s and Order. 
Dianpria MonocyNtiAs 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal, fimplex vel duplex. Cor. irregularis vel fubregularis, 
Capf. 2-valvis, 2-locularis: diffepimentum valvis contrarium ; 
retinaculis feminum uncinulatis., : es 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
JUSTICIA ‘nervofa ; (calyce duplici, antheris parallelis) {picis 
axillaribus terminalibufque imbricatis, bra&teis ob- 
longis venofis folii{que ovatis acuminatis. Vabl. 
3 _  Enum.1. p. 164. Hort. Kew. (ed. 2.) 1. p. 42. 
JUSTICIA pulchella ; (calyce duplice) corollis fubzqualibus : 
Jaciniis oblongo-femiorbiculatis planis, foliis el- 
_liptico-ovatis acutis glabris rugofis obfolete den- 
tatis, filamentis compreffis bafi tortis. (Ker) 
Recenf. Plant. Repof. p. 41. 
~JUSTICIA pulchella. Roxb. Corom. 2. p. 41.t.17J7. 
ERANTHEMUM pulchellum. Bot. Repof. 88. Donn Hort, 
Cant. ed. 4. P. 4. 
RUELLIA varians. Ventenat Celf. 46. 
‘Stare 
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The late Profeffor Vaut, in his Enumeratio Plantarum, | 
in which he has recorded no fewer than one hundred and fixty- 
feven fpecies of Jufticia, has arranged this under his 5th feétion, 
containing thofe that have a fingle calyx, and a nearly equal 
corolla. It feems however more properly to belong to his 
firft fe€tion, thofe with a double calyx and parallel anthers, 
_ We have uniformly found, within the large braéte, a glume- 
like two-valved outer calyx, clofely embracing the tube Pe gi 
