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 Lobelia decumbens. Decumbent Lobelia. 



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Ckzss and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 4-fidus. Cor. petaia irregularis. Antherce cohae- 

 rentes. Caps, infera 2 — s. 3-locularis. 



Specific Character. 



Lobelia decumbens; caulibusdecumbentibus, foliis obovatis 

 dentatis pedunculis axillaribus solitariisbractealineari- 

 lanceolata integerrima brovioribus. 



Descr. Raot perennial, creeping. Radical leaves on 

 young plants petioled, round-obovate, subcrenate, dentate ; 

 cauline leaves similar, but longer, more deeply notched, and 

 subsessile ; the floral leaves or bractes are linear-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, quite entire, decurrent, making the stem at 

 this part angular, though elsewhere these are rounded. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the floral leaf. 

 Flowers blue, smaller than in bicolor (No. 525) the two 

 small laciniae of the upper lip distant and incurved. Ger- 

 man bilocular. Calycine teeth short, subulate, spreading. 

 The whole plant is smooth. 



We were favoured with a pot of this plant in flower in 

 August last, from our kind contributor N. S. Hodson, Esq. 

 of Bury St. Edmunds, under the name of beUidifolia, by 

 which it is generally known in the gardens ; but Lobelia 

 beUidifolia has upright hairy stems, and flowers in a terminal 

 panicle on long peduncles. 



We cannot satisfy ourselves that our plant belongs to 

 any described species. It may possibly be the anceps of 

 Thunberg ; but cannot well be that of Linn^ius, which, 

 as appears from an archetype specimen preserved in the 

 Banksian Herbarium, was taken up from a plant collected 



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