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LOBELIA fulgens. 
Refulgent Lobelia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
(Nonaullis Monadelphia Pentandria,) 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE. Jussieu gen. 103. Dio. II. An» 
there connate. 
CAMPANULACEE. Brown prod. 559. Sect. II. Co- 
rolla irregularis (nunc 5-petala). Anthere sepé con- 
nate. 
LOBELIA. Suprê vol. 1. fol. 60. 
L. fulgens, erecta, simplex, subpubescens ; foliis elongato-lanceolatis 
attenuatis subintegerrimis, racemo multifloro, genitalibus longitudine 
Corolle. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 448. . 
Lobelia fulgens.  Andrews's reposit. 659. Aiton's Epitome, 370; in 
Add. Donn cant. ed. 8. 57. Willd. hort. berol. 85. cum tab. Enum, 
217. 
Radix perennis, fibrosa, stolonifera. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, bipedalis 
el altior, Fryer y ramosus, ife E sulcato-subangulatus, prasertim 
basin versùs, ex toto pube tenui obducius. Folia alterna, sessilia, ut caulis 
Pubescentia, lanceolata, ápice attenuata, venosa, remotê denticulata, margine 
revoluta, inferiora 9-4 icaria, superiora sensim minora. lores race- 
mosi, termina cwdd Bracteme lanceolate, pedunculo longiores, ine 
Jfériores majores, subintegerrime, pubescentes. Pedunculi alterni, pubesoentes, 
talyce breviores. Calyx I-phyllus, 5-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis, acutis, in- 
tegerrimis, erectis, l-nerviis, apice patulis. Cor. coccinea, Tubus ovate» 
oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer posted lon; inalitèr utroque latere 
issus. Limbus 5-partitus, laciniis 2 superioribus lineari-lam > ane, 
gustis, basi erectis, apice reffezo-patentibus, 3 inferioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, 
TOflexis, planis. Fil. lineari-lanceolata, margine coluerentia, apice et bast 
parìm sejuncta. Anth, erecta”, lincari-oblonga, coherentes, apice pilosa. 
Germ. 10-sulcatum. Stylus fain Stig. bilamellatum. “Caps. apice 
dehiscens. Sem. minuta. Willdenow. 
owt, 
Under the head Losrrra splendens, in the first volume 
of this work, we have noticed the introduction of that 
species from Mexico, along with the present. Both were 
obtained from seeds found in specimens which the illus- 
trious travellers, Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, had pre- 
served in the Herbarium they brought home with them. 
Both have been rapidly multiplied, and already found 
their way into every garden and window. The present 
blossoms from August until the frost destroys it; splendens 
is somewhat forwarder, and rather more hardy. 
