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LOBELIA* longifldra. 



Long-flowered Lobelia. 





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SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA, 



Nat. ord. LoBELiACEiE. 

 LOBELIA.— Suprd, vol. 1. fol. 60, 



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§ Lohelim herbacece, Jlorihus axillarihus solitariis, corollis albiSy tuba 

 longissimo integro. Umbo subregulari. (Solenanthis). Kunth synops. 2. 344. 

 L. longijlora; herbacea, foliis obovato-lanceolatis gross^ dentatis subtiis 



sequaii. Kunth L c. 

 albo lone^issimo. F 



tubo 



o. Plunder zc. 353. J*. L 

 albo, tubo loneissimo. Sloane 



Jam. 58. t. 101. /. 2. 

 Rapuntium longiflorum. MilL diet. no. 7. 

 Lobelia longiflora. Linn. Jacq. amer. 219. Swartz obs. 317. Willd, 



sp.pL I. 942. Jacq. hort. vvnd. 1. t. 27. 



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One of the most venomous of all known plants. It is 

 common in St. Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique, 

 where it grows in damp places, and by the side of streams. 

 In this country it is only cultivated in the stove, where it 

 is a rarity. It is an annual, flowering in July and August, 

 and seldom exceeds a foot in length. 



In its native country it is said to prove fatal to horses 

 which eat it, swelling them until they burst ; whence the 

 Spaniards call it Rebenta cavallos. Taken internally, it 

 acts as a violent cathartic, the effects of which no remedy 

 can assuage, and which ends in death. The juice of the 



* Named in honour of Matthew Lobel, physician to James the First of 

 England. He was born at Lisle, in 1538; and died in London, in 1616. 

 He was a celebrated Botanist in his time. 



