Tab. 4150 

 lobelia thapsoidea. 



Mullein-like Lobelia. 



Nat. Ord. LobeliacejE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. LOBELIA. L.— Calyx 5-lobus ; tubo obconico, ovoideo vel 

 hemisphserico. Corolla superne longitudinaliter fissa, bilabiata ; tubo cylin- 

 draceo vel infundibuliformi recto ; labio superiore saepius minore et erecto, 

 inferiore saepius patente latiore 3-fido v. rarius 3-dentato. Antherce 2 

 inferiores vel rarius orones apice barbatae. Ovarium inferum v. semi-supe- 

 rum, imo (in speciebus simillimis) subliberum. — Herbae v. rarius suffrutices, 

 iohis alternis, floribus scepius racemoso-spicatis, pedicellis axillaribus, 

 corolla cmrulea, alba, violacea, rubra vel ex rubro-aurea. D C. 



Lobelia tkapsoidea; caule stricto simplicissirao pilosiusculo, foliis ses- 

 silibus superne confertis lanceolatis basi attenuatis subdenticulatis 

 minuteque ciliatis pilosiusculis, racemo terminali pyramidali densifloro, 

 bracteis approximatis lanceolato-acuminatis pilosis integris pedicello 

 longioribus, calyce piloso, tubo hemisphserico, lobis acuminatis basi 

 latis tubo corolla? dimidio brevioribus, lobis corollae pilosae omnibus 

 angustis labio inf. 3-fido, antheris 2 infer, baccatis. D C. 



Lobelia thapsoidea. Schott in Pohl, Bras. 2. p. 102. t. 167. De Cand. 

 Prodr. 7. p. 380. Cham, in Linncea, v. 8. p. 209. 



Rapuntium thapsoideum. Presl, Prodr. Lob. p. 24. 



Geniostoma Brasiliense. Spreng. Syst. Veget. I. p. 588? (according to 

 Chamisso.) 



Much as the Genus Lobelia, L., has been reduced in 

 amount of species by the numerous Genera that have been of 

 late separated from it, especially Siphocampylos and Tupa, 

 there are yet enumerated, in De Candolle's Prodromus, one 

 hundred and seventy-three species, and many new ones exist 

 m our own Herbarium and those of other Botanists. Among 

 the most remarkable of the Genus for stateliness and show- 

 iness are the L. uranacoma, Cham., L. exaltata, Pohl, L. 

 Organensis, Gardn., and the subject of the present plate, 

 which so far excels the rest, as to have obtained from 

 De Candolle the epithet of " Lobeliarum Princeps." Pohl 

 gives the height as six feet. Mr. Gardner, to whom our 

 stoves owe the possession of this fine plant, gathered speci- 



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