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LoBELIA ERINOIDES. ERINUS-LIKE 
LoBELIA. 
Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynis. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lopetacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito. 
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap- 
sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi—Herbe 
vel Suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra 
v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v. 
axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere 
sepius barbate. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Losexta erinoides ; annua glabra, caulibus filiformibus sim- 
plicibus decumbentibus flexuosis, foliis dentatis radi- 
calibus inferioribus spathulatis petiolatis summis linea- 
ribus integerrimis, floribus solitariis axillaribus folio 
brevioribus, corolla tubo campanulato limbo obliquo 
subregulari lobis ovatis acutis patentibus. 
Lopezia erjnoides. Linn. Mant. p. 291. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2.v. 1. p. 361. Rem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 5. p. 62. 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 2. p. 180. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 
oi. p. T1572 : 
Campanvxa minor Afrinana Erini facie caulibus procumben- 
tibus. Herm. Ludg. 108. t. 109. 
A very pretty greenhouse annual, introduced from the 
Cape of Good Hope so long ago as the year 17 59 : but it 
was probably soon lost, and | do not recollect having myself 
Seen it any where except in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
where seeds were received from the Baron Lupwie in oi 
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