Holopogon, as defined in the Genera Plantarum, the 

 apices of all its anthers being equally, though in this 

 instance not very conspicuously penicillate. Its nearest 

 affinity is with the well-known L. coronopifolia, Linn., a 

 species widely distributed in South Africa, a figure of 

 which was given at t. 644 of this work. In this, as in 

 the majority of the members of the genus Lobelia, the 

 flowers are bent over on their pedicels, so that the 

 morphologically lower abaxial bilobed lip is brought 

 above, while the morphologically upper adaxial trilobed 

 lip is placed below. The pedicels stand almost erect in 

 the axils of the small bracts, the top of each being bent 

 backwards at a right angle. This causes not only the 

 inversion of the flower but its projection from the side of 

 the inflorescence opposite to that from which its pedicel 

 arises. 



Description. — Herb, perennial; stems ascending or 

 nearly erect, 8-12 in. high, terete, glabrous or adpressed- 

 hirsute. Leaves numerous, aggregated below, lanceo- 

 late, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, subacute and slightly 

 apiculate, cuneately narrowed below into a short petiole, 

 the largest 1^ in. long and ^ in. wide, shortly and bluntly 

 serrate, the teeth with cartilaginous tips, midrib and 

 lateral nerves hardly visible above, slightly raised 

 beneath, glabrous on both sides or somewhat pubescent 

 on the midrib, particularly beneath. Inflorescence a con- 

 siderable distance above the foliage, laxly racemose ; 

 bracts linear, acute, £ in. long ; pedicels over I in. long. 

 Receptacle broadly turbinate, T V in. Wide, hirsute with 

 closely adpressed white hairs. Sepals 5, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, -} in. long including the white tip, ciliolate. 

 Corolla lilac, markedly 2-]abiate; tube cylindric, about 

 I in. long, T V in. wide, split on one side; larger lip 

 3-lobed, the lobes obovate-spathulate, slightly apiculate, 

 I in. long, J in. wide, the smaller lip 2-lobed, lobes 

 lanceolate acute, | in. long, very narrow. Stamens 5, 

 filaments { in. long, reddish-lilac, glabrous; anthers 

 T V in. long, their apices penicillate. Style glabrous. 



Fig. 1, a flower ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3, anthers :— all enlarged. 



