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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Justicia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 214, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

J. campylostemon (curved-stamened). fl. white, small, with some purple spots on the disk of the middle lobe of the lower lip; free portion of the stamens curved inwards; peduncles axillary, mostly shorter than the leaves, one to several-flowered. Winter. l. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright green, glabrous except on the nerves beneath. h. 2ft. Natal, 1883.

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