Tas. 4960. 
LOBELIA spLENDENS: var. IGNEA. 
Shining Lobelia: blood-red-leaved var. 
Nat. Ord. LoBELIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus; tubo obconico, ovoideo vel hemisphzerico. Corodla 
superne longitudinaliter fissa, bilabiata; ¢w4o cylindraceo vel infundibuliformi 
recto ; labio superiore sepius minore et erecto, inferiore seepius patente latiore 
3-fido vel rarius 3-dentato. -Anthere 2 inferiores vel rarius omnes apice bar- 
bate. Ovarium inferum vel semisuperum, imo (in speciebus simillimis) subli- 
berum.—Herbe vel rarius suffrutices, foliis alternis, floribus sepius racemoso- 
spicatis, pedicellis axillaribus, corolla cerulea, alba, violacea, rubra vel ex rubro 
aurea. De Cand. 
Lopetia (§ Rapuntium) splendens; glabra, caule erecto simplici, foliis sessili- 
bus lanceolatis acuminatis denticulatis, racemo terminali, bracteis lanceo- 
latis acuminatis dentatis pedicello sublongioribus, tubo calycis hemisphee- 
rico, lobis linearibus acuminatis tubo corolle glabra subeequalibus, antheris 
dorso glabris inferioribus 2 apice barbatis. 
1. foliis viridibus. 
Losetta splendens. Willd. Hort. Ber. t. 86. H.B.K, Nov. Gen. Am. 0. 3. p. $11. 
2. foliis maculatis. te 
Lindt. Bot. Reg. t. 60. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 382. 
3. foliis omnibus atro-sanguineis. ; 
Lopetra ignea. Pact. Mag. of Bot. v. 6. t. 247 (Lab. Nostr. 4960, and Tab. 
Nostr. 4002). 
Rapuntivum splendens. Presi, Prodr. Mon. Lob. p. 26. 
This species was first known in Europe through the Berlin 
Garden, where seeds were sent by the distinguished travellers, 
Humboldt and Bonpland, from Mexico, and was published by 
Willdenow in his ‘ Hortus Berolinensis.’ Upwards of forty years 
ago it was introduced to our English gardens from Paris, and 
published by Dr. Lindley in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ above 
quoted. It appears to have been lost to our gardens for a 
long season, and has, comparatively recently, appeared again 
under another name, viz. that of Z. 7gnea of Paxton, in his ‘ Ma- 
gazine of Botany.’ It is, indeed, though a truly distinct species, 
subject to some variation in the colour and marking of the foli- 
age: green in Willdenow’s figure; spotted and blotched, with 
JANUARY lst, 1857. 
