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Lobelia hypocrateriformis. Salver- 

 shaped Lobelia. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Lobeliace^. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito. 

 Anthers connatae. Stigma bilobum, (nunc indivisum.) 

 Capsula bilocularis, (raro 3-locularis,) apice supero bi- 

 valvi. Br. 



Div. Isotoma. Br. Cor. hypocrateriformis, tubo integro, 

 limbo parum incequali. Antherce imberbes (2 inferiores 

 mucronatce.J Flores racemosi. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lobelia hypocrateriformis; annua glabra, caule subsim- 

 plici, foliis linearibus integerrimis. Br. 



Lobelia hypocrateriformis. Br. Prod. v. I. p. 565. Spr. 

 Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 719. 



Descr. A slender, scarcely branched, annual plant. 

 Stems erect, glabrous, as is every part, wavy, rounded. 

 Leaves scattered, remote, linear-filiform, from halt to three 

 quarters of an inch long, spreading, or often recurved, 

 obtuse, entire, pale green, gradually becoming smaler up- 

 wards, and passing into bracteae. Raceme terminal, tew- 

 flowered. Pedicels slender, wavy, much longer than the 

 linear bracteae. Calyx superior, of five linear-subulate, 

 closely-placed teeth. Corolla truly hypocrateritorm ; the 

 tube slender, twice or thrice as long as the calyx, entire, 

 almost white : the limb five-partite, somewhat two -lipped, 

 the segments broadly obovato - cuneate, submucronate, 



