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Mr. Clarke (in ignorance that it had already been named). Allied 

 to nervosus, but a much smaller species, flowering in the summer 

 and early autumn. Flowers a rich deep purple. It should be 

 grown every spring from cuttings, as these flower much better 

 than the old plants, which also soon get unsightly. It has a 

 habit of sometimes producing very small abortive flowers, a trick 

 common also with Eranthemum cinnaharinum. High cultivation 

 and feeding is the only cure for this. 

 Dianthera 



amerieana, Linn., " Sp. PI." 27 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 2367).— North 

 America. Syn. Justicia pedunculosa. Leaves linear-lanceolate ; 

 spikes on very long peduncles, axillary, few-flowered ; flowers 

 small. Of botanical interest only. 



bullata, N. E. Brown (fig. "III. Hort." xxxiii. (1886), 589).— 

 Borneo. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, elliptic, bullate between 

 the veins, purple beneath ; racemes terminal ; flowers small, fascicled 

 in the axils of the bracts ; calyx 1 line long, 5-lobed ; corolla 2 lines 

 long, tube cylindric, limb bilabiate, upper lip oblong, concave, entire 

 or slightly bidentate, lower trifid. Of botanical interest only. 



Ciliata, DC, " Prod." xi. 331 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 5888).— Panama, 

 Chili, and Venezuela. Leaves lanceolate ; flowers axillary and 

 terminal, sessile in shortly peduncled fascicles ; bracts subulate, 

 ciliate, exceeding calyx ; calyx 5-parted, segments subulate, 

 ciliate, half as long as corolla ; corolla violet with white palate, 

 tube J inch long, cylindric, upper lip small, recurved, bifid, lower 

 lip deeply 3-lobed, 1 j inch in diameter, flat. See Masters, " Gard. 

 Chron." 1870, p. 1567. A pretty winter-flowering stove plant. 



nodosa, Benth. & Hook., "Gen. PI." ii. 1113; (fig. "Bot. Mag." 

 t. 2914, as Justicia nodosa). — Brazil. Stems swollen at the joints ; 

 leaves ovate, acuminate, glabrous, very short-petioled ; racemes 

 short, axillary, 2-3-flowered ; bracts several at the base of each 

 flower, linear-filiform ; calyx 5-lobed ; corolla large, handsome, pale 

 crimson, tube very long, thickened upwards and then bilabiate, 

 lobes long, upper one erect, linear, emarginate, lower deflexed, 

 3-lobed. A pretty pot plant, now fairly common in our stoves. 



pectoralis, GmeL, " Syst." 36.— West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil. 

 Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate; spikes elongate, 

 branched ; flowers distant, mostly 1-sided, about ^ inch long ; 

 calyx segments 5, small, linear, about one-fifth the length of the 

 corolla ; corolla 2-lipped, divided about a quarter down, upper lip 

 ovate, entire. 



secunda, Griseb., in " Goet. Abh." vii. (1857), 246; (fig. "Bot. 

 Mag." t. 2060). — West Indies. Leaves elliptic, attenuate at apex ; 

 racemes terminal, secund, loose, many-flowered ; bracts setaceous ; 

 flowers pinkish-red, bilabiate to nearly the base, upper lip very 

 shortly bifid, lower lip obsoletely 3-toothed. Syn. Justicia 

 geniculata, "Bot. Mag." t. 2487 ; Justicia lucida, "Bot. Mag." 

 t. 1014. 

 Dicliptera 



Tweediana, DC, "Prod." xi. 482; (fig. "Rev. Hort." 1874, 

 t. 171). — Buenos Ayres. Leaves opposite, attenuate at both ends ; 



