plant from which the figure now given was prepared, 
Kew is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Crisp; usually 
in habit it is more compactly matted than the individual 
shown in our plate. MV. reptans is an extremely pleasing 
little plant, rather resembling in general appearance 
some of the smaller Lobelias. It grows freely and 
flowers almost continuously from early spring to late 
autumn in any sheltered nook in the rock garden or in 
a shallow pot in a cold frame. 
Description.—ferb, perennial, tufted, 1-2 in. high; 
stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, very slender, 
internodes 1-1 in. long, glabrous. Leaves opposite, in- 
cluding the petiole 2-1 in. long, 1—1 in. wide, lanceolate, 
oblanceolate or almost elliptic, 2-3-toothed along each 
side, narrowed from the middle downwards in a rather 
narrow winged petiole, glabrous but very minutely 
glandular along the midrib beneath. Racemes 2-5- 
flowered, erect, 12-2 in. long, flowering from the very 
base; pedicels }-$ in. long, erect, slender, 1-fariously 
pubescent, minutely I-bracteate. Calyx 1-1 in. long, 
5-lobed to the middle or deeper, sparingly glandular 
puberulous; lobes spreading, lanceolate, rather long 
deltoid-ovate, acute. Corolla unequally 2-lipped, pur- 
plish blue, the lower lip blotched with white, yellow and 
red-purple; tube 14-1 in. long, very finely glandular ; 
lips outspread, the upper slightly recurved, 4—? in. long, 
1 in. wide at the base, 2-fid at the tip, the lower ?—} in. 
long, 2 in. wide, almost flat, with the disk 2-callose, the 
ridges white-pilose, the lobes narrow-oblong, obtuse. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, the lower pair shortly exserted ; 
filaments glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, white; 
stigma large, 2-lobed. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open, showing stamens ; 3, hairs on 
the corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, pistil, with portion of calyx:—all enlarged. 
