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LOBELIA splendens. 

 Shining Lobelia, 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYXIA. 



LOBELIA. Corolla irregularis tubo hiqc fisso (ranN integral: 

 limbo 5-partito. Anthem connatae. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). 

 Capsula bilocularis (rar<> 3-loc.), apice supero bivalvi. 



Herb* (v. Suffrutices) plemque tactescentes. Folia alterna, Integra 

 v. lacimata, raro Jistulosa. FJores racemosi terminates, v. axillares 

 solitarii, pedicel/is bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere sapid* barbata. 

 Brown prodr. 1 . 562. 



L. splendens, foliis angusto-Ianceolatis, denticulatis, margine planis, 

 cauleque glaberrimis : racemo terminal i. liil/d. hort. bcrol. 8(j. 

 cum tab. 



Radix perennis, fibrosa, e centra exserens brevissimos stolones. Caul is 

 2-t pedalis modo ramosus, sidcato-subangulatus, purpureus, glaberrimus, 

 nitidus. Folia sessilia, 2-3 pollicaria, apice attenuata, approximate, nitida. 

 Flores terminates, racemosi, snbsecundi. Bractece lanceolatce, pcdunculum 

 subcequantes, denticulatce. Pedunculi calyce breviores, tit iota planta glabri. 

 Cal. l-phyllus, superus, 5-partitus, lac. lanceolatis acuiis integerrimis, erect is 9 

 1-nerviis, apice injiexis. Cor. coccinea, glaberrima, splendens; tubus ovato- 

 oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer postea longitudinalitcr utroque latere 

 fissus ; limbus laciniis binis superior ibus, linear i-lanceolat is, angustis, basi crec- 

 tis, apice refiexo-patentibus, 3 ivferioribus oblmigo-lanceolatis, dejlexis, plants. 

 Stain, fil. lineari-lanceolata, margine cohcerentia, apice et basi parurn sejuncta ; 

 anth. erectce, linear i-oblon gee, cohcereates, apice pilosis. Germ, (semiinfe- 

 rum), calyce obditctum, 10-sidcatum : stylus filiformis : stig. bilamellatum. 

 Caps, 3-loc, 3-valv., calyce tecta, apice dehiscens. Sera, minutissima. 

 Willd. 





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to the enumera- 



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f the species of 



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ujulgens, which mac 



time, from seed broi 



BonptamJ from their 



Paris about a year m 



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ive of Mexico, and raised, as well 

 :s appearance in Europe at the same 

 t home by Messrs. Humboldt and 

 lebrated travels. Introduced from 

 May be known from Ju{ 



first sight, altho' closely akin, by a smooth drilling surface, 

 which I Q the other is clothed by a short close pubescence, 

 imparting to it a paler opaque appearance, as if it were ob 



du<_ 



dire 



red by dust. Splendens is the taller-growing plant, pro 



offsets from the axis of 



not fi 



the 



pendicularlv 



leaf 



