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a calyx about 0.5 cm long and a two-lipped tubular yellow corolla, 1.5 to 2 cm long.
Ornamental pot plant. 6.
Fittonia verschaffeltii (Hort. ex Lemaire) Coem. "snail plant", "nerve plant",
"painted net-leaf"
Recent introduction. Peru. Rare. Perennial creeping herb, up to 30 cm high,
rooting at the joints; leaves, 6 to 12 cm long and 3 to 8 cm wide, broad, smooth, ovate,
ornamental, with a network of fine pink to bright carmine veins; petioles 0.5 to 3 cm
long; inconspicuous flowers borne on erect narrow spikes, up to 6 cm long, with
overlapping obovate greenish bracts, less than 1 cm long, a calyx about 0.5 cm long, and
a tubular yellow two-lipped corolla, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Ornamental pot plant. 6.
Graptophyllum pictum (L.) Griff. "caricature plant", " morado"
syns. Justicia picta L. ; Graptophyllum hortense Nees
Recent introduction. New Guinea. Rare. Erect shrub, up to 2 m high; leaves, 8 to
20 cm long and 3 to 13 cm wide, smooth, leathery, variegated, elliptic-oblong, opposite,
with slightly wavy margins, and pointed at both ends, some green, with irregular
yellowish blotches. or markings in the center and other varieties with red-purple leaves
with pinkish to cream-colored blotches along the center; petioles 1 cm long or less;
flower spikes with small bracts bearing clusters of flowers with a short 5-small-lobed
calyx and a 2-lipped, funnel-shaped crimson-purple corolla, about 4 cm long, the upper
lip with 2 short lobes, the lower with 3 long narrow lobes; fruiting capsule 2-seeded.
Planted ornamental. 6, 7.
Hemigraphis alternata (Burin. f.) T. Anders. "cemetery plant"
syns. Ruellia alternata Burm. f. ; Hemigraphis colorata (Bl.) Hal1.f. ; Ruellia
colorata B1.
Recent introduction. Java. Rare. Creeping perennial herb, rooting at the joints;
leaves, 2 to 8 cm long, ovate to heart-shaped, metallic- to greenish-purple above and
reddish-purple beneath, and with sunken veins and scalloped margins; petioles nearly as
long as blades; erect flowering spikes, 2 to 3 cm long, with crowded overlapping narrow
purple bracts, about 1 cm long, bearing a calyx with 5 narrow lobes, each less than 1 cm
long, and a white, purple-lined corolla, about 2 cm long; fruiting capsule slender, 4- to
20-seeded. Planted ornamental ground cover. 6.
Justicia fulvicoma Schlecht. & Chamisso "shrimp plant", "red shrimp plant"
syns. Beloperone guttata Brand. non Wallich; Justicia brandegeana Wassh. & L.
B. Smith; Drejerella guttata (Brandeg.) Bremek.