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Plants erect or scandent: Lvs. membranaceous, entire: corolla-tube straight or curved, the spreading limb 5-lobed and nearly or quite regular; stamens 4, unequal; stigma blunt or minutely 2-lobed; fls. white, blue or purple, in axillary or terminal clusters, often very showy.—About 20 species in the Old World tropics. Require the general treatment of Justicia, in intermediate or warmhouses.
Plants erect or scandent: Lvs. membranaceous, entire: corolla-tube straight or curved, the spreading limb 5-lobed and nearly or quite regular; stamens 4, unequal; stigma blunt or minutely 2-lobed; fls. white, blue or purple, in axillary or terminal clusters, often very showy.—About 20 species in the Old World tropics. Require the general treatment of Justicia, in intermediate or warmhouses.
A. coromandeliana, Nees {A. comprensis, Bojer. A. violacea, Dalz. Justicia gangetica. Linn.}. Zigzag sub-shrub: lvs. ovate- cordate, wavy: fls. purple, nearly sessile, in 6-10-fld. raceme. India. B.M. 4248. P.M. 14:125. F.S. 2:179.—A. scandena, Lindl. (Henfreya scandens, Lindl.). Climbing: Lvs. obovate to ovate, thick, entire: fls. large, yellow, white and blush, in a thyrse. Afr. B.M. 4449. B.R. 33:31. F.S. 3:231.
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