Justicia assurgens Linnaeus , Systema Naturae , ed. 10, 2 : 850. 1759 Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J) Jarvis, Charlie (L.) Juss. Juss. Linnaeus 1759 Magnoliopsida Acanthaceae Dicliptera Plantae Lamiales Tracheophyta species sexangularis      Justicia assurgensLinnaeus,  Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 850. 1759.  ["Habitat in Jamaica."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 23 (1762). RCN: 124.   Lectotype(Daniel in Breedlove, Fl. Chiapas4: 29. 1995): [icon] " Justicia herbaceaassurgens, ad alas alternas nodos & summitates florida; foliis paucioribus ovatis petiolis longis incidentibus"in Browne, Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 118, t. 2, f. 1. 1756.