The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Dicliptera

(from diklis, double-doored, and pteron, a wing; referring to the two-celled winged capsule or seedvessel). ORD. Acanthaceae. A genus of stove or greenhouse annuals, perennials, and evergreen herbs, rarely, if ever, seen in cultivation outside botanic gardens. There are about fifty species. For culture, see Justicia.

D. Tweediana (Tweedie's). fl. orange-red, numerous, tubular. Autumn. l. opposite, oblong-obtuse. Monte Video, 1874. A very showy greenhouse perennial, with numerous stems. (R. H. 1874, 171.)

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