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JUSTICIA flavicoma. 
Hairy Yellow-headed Justicia. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACER. 
JUSTICIA, Supra, vol. 4. fol. 309. 
J. flavicoma ; (antheree loculis parallelis); paniculd terminali congest, 
calycis laciniis subulatis glandulosis corolla brevioribus, corolle lacinié 
superiore emarginat4, inferiore tripartita revoluta, foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis acuminatis undulatis breviter petiolatis albinerviis. ; 
Caulis articuli breves, medio tumidi. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acumina- 
tissima, undulata, minute pubescentia, breviter petiolata, costa venisque 
primariis suboppositis pallidis. Panicula_ terminalis, congesta, omnind lutea, 
undique, corolla excepta, pilis brevibus, flexuosis, capitatis, crassiusculis pul- 
cherrimé vestita. Bracteee lacinieeque calycis subulate, corolla breviores. 
Corolla glaberrima, infundibularis, breviter bilabiata, labio superiore emar- 
ginato, wnferiore 3-partito, revoluto: lacintis subequalibus. Stamina duo, 
faucis longitudine, loculis antherarum parallelis. Stylus glaber, filiformis. 
Stigma subclavatum, acutum, bilobum. 
For this very beautiful plant we are much indebted 
to Thomas Carey Palmer, Esquire, in whose valuable 
collection, at Bromley, it flowered in May last. The 
seeds had been received from Brazil. 
A stove plant, requiring, we presume, no particular 
mode of treatment, and, probably, to be readily increased 
by cuttings. 
This is so very similar to the J. calytricha, figured 
by Dr. Hooker, in his Exotic Flora, tab. 212, that for 
some time we were disposed to believe it the very same. 
But, upon comparing more carefully our specimens with 
Dr. Hooket’s figure, we have been obliged to conclude 
that they are really distinct. The plant represented in the 
Exotic Flora has extremely long stalks to the leaves, which 
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