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* LOBÉLIA heterophylla. 
Various-leaved Lobelia. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 
Nat. ord. LOBELIACEZ. 
LOBELIA. Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 60. 
L. heterophylla ; glabriuscula, caule angulato simplici, racemo secundo, foliis 
crassiusċulis : inferioribus dentato-pinnatifidis, superioribus linearibus inte- 
gerrimis, corolle labii inferioris lacinià media obcordatá : lateralibus dimi- 
diatis. R. Br. prodr. 420. 
L. heterophylla. Labillard. nov. holl. 1. p. 52. t. 74. 
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This very beautiful half-hardy herbaceous plant was first 
sent me in September last, by Mr. J. Ingram, of Southamp- 
ton. It had been raised by Mr. William Shenton, of Win- 
chester, who received it from Van Diemen's Land, from his 
brother. It afterwards reached me from Mr. Veitch, of the 
Mount Radford Nursery, near Exeter, with a memorandum 
that the plant had been hung up in the stove for more than a 
month without the least. soil, and without ceasing to flower ; 
a very singular fact, and quite new in plants of this de- 
scription. -I have also been favoured with it by Mr. Man- 
gles and others. 5. 
It is much the handsomest of the herbaceous Lobelias, as 
will be obvious from the accompanying plate. The flowers 
are of a particularly clear, rich blue, and so large as to = 
duce a very rich and gay appearance, either when the plant 
* See folio 1612. 
