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* ISOLOBTJS. 

 * Isolobus Roxburghianus, D.C. ; an Lobelia csespitosa, Blum. ? 

 Hab. In horto botanico Calcuttensi ! versosimiliter e China introducta. 



In hortis Anglicis mont. Khasise, alt. 4000 ped. ! (v. v.) (fl. August.) 



— Dist. Java ! et China ! 



Gen. XII. Speirema, ITf. ^ T. 

 Calycis tubus globosus, limbi lobis lineari-subulatis, patentibus 

 revolutisve. Corolla dorso ad basin fissa, bilabiata, labio supe- 

 riore inferiore longiore lobis 2 linearibus acuminatis, inferiore 

 subspatbulafco trilobo lobis lanceolatis acuminato-caudatis. An- 

 thercd marginibus pilosis, 2 inferiores apice penicillatae. Fructus 

 globosus, subcarnosus, irregulariter ruptus, 2-locularis. Semina 

 numerosissima, testa Isevi coriaeea. — Herba elata, glaberrima, 

 divaricatim ramosa ; ramis pedalibns graciUhus prostratis ; foliis 

 2-4i-pollicarihus subdistichis secundisve, petiolatis, ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, longe acuminatis, irregulariter subduplicato-serratis ; pe- 

 dunculis 1-2-pollicaribus, solitariis, axillaribus,\-floris, elongatis; 

 floribus suberectis, luride purpureis ; corolla sub § unc. longa, 

 intus parce pilosa, calycis lobis angustissimis longiore ; bacca 

 globosa, membranacea v. subcarnosa. (Nomen a'Kei\>y]\ia, spira, 

 ad calycis lacinias apice revolutas refert.) 



1. Speirema montanum, Hf. & T. — Lobelia montana, Blume, Bijd. 728 ; 



A. D.C. Prodr. vii. 387. 

 Hab. In Sylvis Himalayse regionis temperatae provincise Sikkim, alt. 



5000-7000 ped. ! (fl. temp, pluv.) (v. Y.)—Distr. Montibus Javje ! 

 Stirps Javanica ab Himalaica nuUo modo difFert. 



Gen. XIII. Lobelia. 



1. Lobelia trigona, Roxb. (Antherae omnes apice penicillatae), cf. L. 

 Zeylanica, Linn.; L. trialata. Ham.; L. micrantha, Hook.; L. 

 Reinwardliana, DC. ? L. subincisa. Wall. 



Variat insigniter statura, caule crassiusculo v. gracili, erecto ramoso v. 

 prostrato, foliis subsessilibus v. petiolatis, oblongis ovatis cordato- 

 ovatisve, floribus axillaribus v. in paniculas terminales dispositis, co- 

 rolla laete caerulea v. purpurea interdum saturate azurea. — An species 

 2 hie confusae diutius inquirendae ? 



Hab. Per totara Indiam (praecipue oryzetis) vulgatissima, a Birma ! et 

 Peninsula Malayana ! usque ad Simla ! in montibus Himalayae crescit 

 ad 6000 ped. ! (fl. per totum annum) (v. v.) — Distr. China ! Java! 



2. Lobelia c^nis, Wall. ; cf. L. succulenta, Blume. 



Hab. InCeylonia! Walker, Gardner, ThwaitesiCP.cnm 1776 et298\ 

 mixta) et Peninsula Malayana ad Malacca ! Lobb ; in Bengalia ori- 

 cntali ! et montibus subtropicis Himalayse orientalis ! (Sikkim !) et 



