Lobelia. | CAMPANULACE& (Sond.) 543 
each side 5 peduncles elongated, glabrous, naked, 2-4-flowered ; bractez 
linear, ciliated; pedicels bibracteolate; calyx-tube appressed-hairy, 3 
times shorter than the lanceolate lobes; corolla subpilose, 6 times longer 
than the calycine lobes; lips very unequal, the lower deeply trifid; 
lobes oblong; ovary partly free. Zhunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 182. DC. Prod. 
p- 363. Rapunt. tomentosum, Presl! Prodr. Lob. p. 19. EF. Mey. comm. 
pl. Dreg. p. 288. E. Z. n. 2480. L. Chamepitys, Lam. Dict. 3, p. 590. 
A. DC.! Prodr. p. 362. Rap. Chameepitys, Presi! non Spreng. E. & Z. 
2482. é 
Var. 8, ceratophylla ; leaves pinnatifid-lobed. L. ceratophylla, A. DC. 1. ¢. p. 
362. Rapunt. ceratophyllum, Presl! in E. Z. 2484. L. Simsii, Sweet. H. Brit. p. 
247. L. pedunculata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2251. Rapunt. Simsii, Presl, l. c. p. 20, 
ex icone. 
Var. y, paucidentata; stem, branches, calyx, and corolla pubescent; leaves with 
few teeth or lobes. Lob. paucidentata, A. DU. l. c. Rapunt. paucidentatum, Presl/ 
Prod. p, 20. 
Var. 5, multiflora (A. DC. 1. c.); peduncles often 3-4-flowered. Rap. coerulewm, 
Presl ! in E, Z. 2481, ex pte. 
Has. Stony places, in mountains, in the districts of Uitenhage, George, Caledon, 
Albany, and in Caffraria. Var. 8, Hottentottsholld., Zey. 3106, var. 6. Hemel 
en Aarde, Zeyh. 3107, var. 6. Var. y, Uitenhage. Var. 5, Grahamstown and Port 
Elizabeth. Oct.-Feb. (Herb. Thunb., Hook., D., Sd.) 
Stem shrubby, terete; branches fastigiate. Leaves 6 lines long, toothed near the 
apex, rarely towards the base, densely tomentose, greyish. Peduncles filiform, 
glabrous or with appressed hairs, 3 inches to 1 foot long. Corolla blue or violaceous, 
6-8 lines long. 
13. L. coronopifolia (Linn. spec. p. 1322); stem decumbent at the 
base, very leafy, hairy; leaves lanceolate, dentately-pinnatifid, hairy ; 
teeth opposite, acute; peduncles elongated, naked, glabrous, 1—5-flow- 
ered ; bractea linear-acuminate ; pedicels bibracteolate ; calyx tube ovoid- 
turbinate, hispid or appressed-hairy, nearly twice shorter than the lan- 
ceolate lobes; corolla 5-6 times longer than the calycine lobes; lips 
very unequal, lobes of the upper lanceolate, of the lower deeply trifid, 
segments obovate, mucronulate ; ovary partly free. Zhunb./ Fl. Cap. p. 
134. Sted. Fl. Cap. exs. n, 137. Breyn. Cent. t. 88. Burm. Afr. p. 98, 
t. 38, f. 1. DL. Thunbergit Sweet. Hort. Brit. p. 247. Bot. Mag. t. 644. 
Reich. Ic. exot. 1, p. 61, t. 89. Rap. coronopifol. Presl! Prod. Lob. p. 
20. E.&Z.!n. 2483. Herb. un. itin. n. 38, et. 485. Rap. Simsii, Presi! 
E. & Z. n. 2485, non Lob. pedunculata Sims, Zey.! n. 1057, 3197. 
Var. . coerulea; peduncle 3-4-flowered, flowers large. Lob. cwrulea, Hook. Bot. 
Mag. t. 2701. Rap. ceruleum. Presl, Prod. p. 20. E. § Z. n. 2481, ex pte. 
+ Var. y. glabrescens (Presl.); leaves glabrous or nearly so. fry re 
Var. 5. macularis ; peduncles 2~-5-flowered ; leaves linear-lanceolate, with few’, ..... 
very short teeth. L. macularis, A. DC. l. ¢. p. 364. Rap. maculare, Presl! Prod.¢ |... 
Lob. p. 20. E. Mey. Comm. pl. Afr. Austr. p. 288. 
Has. In flats and mountains throughout the colony; var. 8, near Port Natal, 
Drege, R. W. Plant, n. 34. Gueinzius, n. 466. J. Sanderson, Dr. Sutherland, Gerr. 
§ M‘K. n. 686. Sept._Feb. (Herb. Thunb., Hook., D., Sd.) 
Sub-shrub, very like the preceding, but not tomentose, and the leaves usually lroader 
and serrato-pinnatifid, spreading, hairy or glabrous, flat or concave above. Peduncles 
1-5-flowered. Flowers large, sometimes 1 inch long, blue. Valves of capsule as 
long or longer than the base.f Aun sh 
