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Lope.ia SURINAMENSIS. SHRUBBY LOBELIA 
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Clafs and Order. 
Syncengesta MonocGAmia; 
Generic Charaéier. 
Gel. 5fidus. Cor. 1-petala, itregularis. Cap/. infera, 2 five 
g-locularis. _ : 
Specific Chavaéer and Synonyms. : 
~ LOBELIA /urinamenfis caule faffruticofo, foliis oblongis 
glabris ferratis, floribus axillaribus peduncu- 
latis, Ait. Kew. V. 3. p. 498. Sp. Pi. ige20. 
LOBELIA Jevigata foliis ellipticis ferratis glabris, capfulis 
groffis globofis, calycibus fubulatis, corollis 
glaberrimis. Linn. Suppl. p. 392. 
The Lobelia furinamenfis, a plant newly introduced here, 
is minutely defcribed in the Supp/. Pl. of the younger Lin- 
Na&us, under the name of /evigata, apparently from the 
{moothnefs of its flowers: in the year 1786, Mr. ALEXANDER 
Anperson fent this plant to the Royal Garden at Kew, from 
the Weft-Indies, where it grows fpontaneoufly, as wellsas at 
Surinam; and Mr. Aiton has inferted it at the end of the 
Hort. Kew. affigning to it a new fpecific defcription, and a 
new trivial name: our drawing was made from a plant which 
flowered in the ftove of Mefirs. Grimwoop and Co. Ken- 
fington, to whom it was imparted by Rrcharn MoLesworTH#y 
_Efq. of Peckham, a gentleman liberal in his communications, — 
and anxious to promote the caufe of Botany, 5” 
This fpecies of Lobelia is a ftove plant, having a fome- 
what fhrubby ftalk, growing to the height of feveral feets 
its bloffoms are very large, of a pale red colour, and its” 
Anthere, which might be miftaken for the ftigma, unufually 
It begins to flower in January and February, and continues 
to bloflom during moft of the fummer. — 
Is increafed by cuttings. am 
