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LOBELIA arguta. 
Fine-toothed Lobelia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lobeliace®. 
LOBELIA. Suprd, vol. \.fol. 60. 
L. arquta; suffruticosa, caule subsimplice, foliis lineari-lanceolatis serrulatis 
utrinque glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus glabris foliis brevioribus, calyce 
hemisphserico nudo. 
Suffrutex 2 -pedalis. Caulis subsimplex, foliosus, crassus, teres, glaber. 
Folia persistentia, lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, sapius 6 uncias longa, 
in petiolo attenuata, plana, serrulata, glaberrima. Flores luteo-aurantiaci, 
axillares, foliis multb breviores, solitarii, pedunculati. Pedunculus erectus, 
qlaber, medio bibracteatus. Calyx glaber, foveolatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 
subulatis, erectis, integris. Corolla bilabiata, labio supenore lacinns duabus 
ad basin usque liberis, inferiore semitripartito, lacinns secundis -omnibus 
linearibus canaliculatis apice semper cohcerentibus. Columna staminum cum 
corolld concolor, laciniis corolla: brevior, et inter duas labn supenons lacimas 
protrusa. Antheree circa stylum summum cohcerentes, brunnea, lineares, 
qlabriusculce. Stigma bilobum, lobis anticis et posticis patentibus, carnosis, 
ovatis, obtusis. —Obs. Laciniae corolla minutissimb papilloso-ciliata. 
Introduced from Chili by Mr. Place by whom seeds 
yere communicated to the Horticultural Society in • 
\ frame, half-shrubby plant, which may be even preserved 
n the open border by means of a slight shelter in the 
winter. Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, 
n September last. 
This species is not referable to any of the numerous 
South-American Lobelias described in botanical books. 
It belongs to the same tribe as L. amygdalma, persicilolia, 
foliosa, and similar the South-American species, w lc are 
easily distinguished by their axillary inflorescence, an 
