LOBELIACEAE 1291 
campanulate: lobes short. Stamens with 
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sile, the lid and calyx adnate.—One species. 
S. zeylanica Gaertn. Plant 2-13. dm 
above: jid 3-1le . lo ong: sepals broadly 
ovate, 1.5 m mos t corolla white or green- 
ish, about 2 mm. lon ng, the ov a s about 
as long as the tube: capsule m. wide. 
—Low Eois Coastal Pisin, Ta to Ark. 
Nat. of the Old World jopies —(. L; 
Mex., C. A., S. A.)—Spr.- 
FAMILY 3. LOBELIACEAE — LosELiA FAMILY 
erbs, or rarely trees, the sap often milky. Leaves alternate: blades 
entire, toothed, or parted. Flowers perfect, or rarely dioecious, irregular. 
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mostly 2-earpellary, the ovary more or less inferior. Fruit ae or 
baceate.—About 20 genera and 600 species, widely distributed. 
1. LOBELIA ape. L. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf-blades entire 
or toothed. Flowers in spikes, or panicles. Hypanthium mostly 
ribbed. Sepals e or often ini ae sometimes with basal ap- 
pendages.. Corolla uan colored or white: upper lip 2-lobed: lower lip 3- 
lobed. Anthers in a ring around the ce 2 often smaller than the others. 
Ovary 2-celled. Capsule ad ed.—About 225 species, rad distributed.—In 
the following descriptions cauline leaves are considered. 
Corolla red (pink or white forms are rare). I. CARDINALES. 
Corolla i or white, or blue variegated ies white. ~~~ 
Flowers large ( corolla- tube over 1 cm. a `N 
t scape-like, leafy to the infloreó II. SIPHILITICAE. 
Stem scape-like, leafy at the base, the Mid leaves 
reduced and remote. III. PALUDOSAE. 
Flowers small (corolla-tube less than 1 cm. long). 
IV. APPENDICULATAE. 
Blades of the c auline leaves sessile. 
Upper cauline leaves with broad blades, at 
un. oo linear: raceme spike-like, con- 
tin V. SPICATAE. 
Doer. cauline leaves with narrow, usually 
linear, filiform blades: raceme rela- 
tively Tew flowered, open VI. NUTTALLIANAE. 
Blades of the cauline leaves manifestly petioled. VII. XALAPENSES. 
l I. ALES 
Perennial herb with offsets: raceme eae mostly 1-sided, 
1. L. cardinalis. 
very showy. 
SIPHILITICAE 
be pinnatifid, the auricles hiding the hypanthium: leaves 
Mn or only slightly reee above: blades pinnatifid- 
2. L. brevifolia. 
