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Lobelia unidentata. Single-toothed 



Lobelia. 



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C/<$/} and Order. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



(Syngenesia Mo nog am i a. Linn.) 



(MoNADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Peifoon.) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. l-petala, irregularis. Anthers cohserentes. 

 Cap/, infera, 2 — 3-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LOBELIA unidentata; foliis linearibus utrinque unidentatis. 



Hort. Kew, ed. alt. v. 1. p. 356. Donn Hort. Cant, ed, 6. 



p. 51. 

 LOBELIA bidentata. Donn Hort. Cant. ed. 4. p. 41. 



This little plant, from the bright violet colour of its flowers, 

 of which it produces a profufion in long fucceffion, is well 

 worth cultivating. It thrives belt when the pot ftands conftantly 

 in water. The form of the corolla of this fpecies differs con- 

 fiderably from' that of every other in the genus with which we 

 are acquainted. It is in fact tripe talous ; the three laciniui of 

 the upper lip being united into one at the bafe, whillt the other 

 two forming the lower lip are diftinct; and the ftamens and ftile 

 pafs between them; fo that the flower in this fpecies is reverfed 

 when compared with the ufual arrangement of the laciniae in 

 Lobelia. 



We firft obferved this plant in Mr. Woodford's collection 

 at Vauxhall ; our drawing was taken from one communicated by 

 Mr. Salisbury, of the Botanic Gardens, Bromptonand Sloane- 

 Square. Flowers all the fummcr. Propagated by keds or 

 cuttings. Native of the Cape of Good Mope. 



