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flowers grow at the top in globofe cyma, and 

 are yellow : the braclea are lanceolated. It 

 grows on open hills. The Chinefe name is 

 Fatt-fa, 



Monard a Chlnenfis grew on a barren moun- 

 tain. The calyx is double ; the fuperior one 

 is pentaphyllous, with leaves of equal breadth; 

 the lower is diphyllous : the corolla is mono- 

 petalous : its tube is cylindrical, and longer 

 than the calyx : the upper-lip is undivided, 

 and fmall ; but the lower is trilaciniated, in- 

 flected, and longer than the upper one: the 

 fiamtna are two, with a fmgle pjlillwn. Its 

 yellow flowers are axillary, and very fmall. 

 The ftalk is fibrous. It grows on barren 

 places. 



Lobelia Zeylanica flowered in the fame 

 place with the former. The calyx is quinque- 

 fid, expanded, hairy below, with oblong 

 fringes of the length of the corolla, which is 

 monopetalous and fattened to the calyx : its 

 tube is cylindrical: the limbus quinquefid: 

 the upper-lip is trifid, with o^al, cufpidated, 

 reSe&ed, lacinice. : the lower-lip is biiid, its 

 lacinice are the fame as thofe of the upper- 

 lip : the five f laments are filiform, broad, of 



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