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Lobelia Speculum. Looking-glass 

 Lobelia. 



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C/#/} 0«i Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



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

 Cap/, infera 2 feu 3-locularis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



LOBELIA Speculum, caule proftrato, pedunculis axillaribus 

 folitariis unifloris longiflimis, corollis hypocrateriformibus : 

 limbo rotato. 



LOBELIA Speculum. BoL Repof. 664. 



CAMPANULA africana annua anguftifolia flore purpurafcente 

 major. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 75. /. 38. 



This is an annual plant, with many fpreading (lender branches ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, irregularly toothed or quite entire ; the 

 flowers are of a very deep violet-colour, and grow from the 

 axils of the leaves on very long peduncles ; fegments of the 

 calyx fubulate patent ; corolla monopetalous, with the tube fplit 

 on one fide, allowing the flamens and ftyle to efcape, as in 

 many other fpecies of Lobelia: limb 5-cleft, nearly regular; 

 latinise rotate, very obtufe, with a fmall mucro or point. 



It has been fuggefted that this plant, from the regularity of 

 hs corolla, fhould not be ranked with Lobelia. In this 

 refpecl, however, it does not differ more from its congeners 

 than Lobelia unidentala, next to which we fhould it place in 

 a fyftematical arrangement. 



Although not yet inferted in any modern Flora, this fpecies 

 appears to us to have been in Holland many years ago, and to 

 have been defcribed and figured by Commelin in the work 

 above quoted. 



Communicated from the Exotic Nurfery, in the KingVRoad, 

 Little-Chelfea. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. 



