Tas. 4964. 
LOBELIA Texensis. 
Texas Lobelia. 
Nat. Ord. LoBELIACEM.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus ; tubo conico, ovoideo, vel hemispheerico. Corolla 
superne longitudinaliter fissa, bilabiata, tubo cylindraceo vel infundibuliformi 
recto; /abio superiore seepius minore et erecto, inferiore seepius patente latiore 
3-lobo vel rarius 3-dentato. Anthere due inferiores vel rarius omnes apice 
barbatee. Ovarium inferum vel semi-superum, imo (in speciebus simillimis) 
subliberum.—Herbx vel rarius suffrutices ; foliis alternis; floribus sepius ra- 
cemoso-spicatis, pedicellis awillaribus ; corolla cerulea, alba, violacea, rubra vel ex 
rubro aurea. De Cand. 
Lopenta Texensis ; puberula, caule flexuoso simplici, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis 
denticulatis acutis remotis, floribus racemosis secundis remotis, bracteis lan- 
ceolatis, pedicellis bractea brevioribus, lobis calycinis linearibus, lobis co- 
rollz angustis acutis. 
Lopeita Texensis. Rafin. Herb. Part. 1. ann. 1833, p. 20. De Cand. Prodr. 
v. 7. p. 382. Klotzsch in Ic. Plant. Rar. Hort. Berol. p. 82. t. 33. 
One of the many attractive herbaceous plants which now adorn ag 
our flower-borders ; native of Texas, but when and by whom in- 
troduced to our gardens we are not aware. De Candolle asks, 
“An a LZ. cardinali diversa?” but he appéars never to have 
seen the plant, and indeed intimates as much by the absence of 
the (v. s.) at the end of his remarks. It is of far more robust 
habit than that species, with broader leaves, very large and nu- 
merously flowered racemes, quite leafy, with the copious bracts, 
which are generally longer than the flowers and pedicels to- 
gether. It flowers during the summer months. 
Derscr. Root perennial.. Stem erect, herbaceous, stout, two 
to three feet high, angled, subsimple, leafy. Leaves : lower ones 
a span long; wpper ones gradually smaller, and passing into the 
bracteas, all of them sessile, broad ovato-lanceolate, very much 
acuminated, spreading, and often recurved, rather obscurely 
toothed or serrated, subcarinated, penninerved ; zerves few, ob- 
lique, slightly puberulous. Raceme a span and more long 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1857. : 
