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Jacobinia (Derivation doubtful Including)

(derivation doubtful). Including Cyrtanthera, Pachystachys, Sericographis. ORD. Acanthaceoe. A genus comprising about thirty species of stove erect herbs or shrubs, natives of tropical America, from Brazil and Bolivia as far as Mexico. Flowers often yellow, red or golden, rarely pale or rose. Leaves opposite, entire. For culture, see Justicia (to which the genus is allied).

J. aurea (golden). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work under the name of Cyrtanthera catalpoefolia.

J. carnea (flesh-coloured). fl. flesh-coloured; thyrse compact; bracts and sepals ovate-lanceolate. August and September. l. on rather long petioles, ovate-acuminate. h. 6ft. Rio Janeiro, 1827. (B. M. 3383; B. R. 1397, under name of Justicia carnea.) J. chrysostephana (golden-crowned). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work as Cyrtanthera chrysostephana. J. coccinea (scarlet). fl. scarlet; spikes terminal; helmet lanceolate, reflexed at the end; stigma of two plate. February. l. elliptical. h. 5ft. South America, 1770. (B. M. 432, under name of Justicia coccinea.) J. Ghiesbreghtiana (Ghiesbreght's).* fl. scarlet, in terminal panicles. Winter. l. bright green, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, entire. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Mexico, 1843. (R. G. 97b, under name of Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana.) A very handsome winter-flowering decorative plant.

J. Lindeni (Linden's). fl. orange-yellow, disposed in showy terminal heads. l. oval-acuminate, glabrous. Stem smooth. Mexico, 1870. (R. H. 1870, 250, under name of Justicia Lindeni.)