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* LOBELIA heterophylla. 



Various-leaved Lobelia, 



SYNGENESIA MO^iOGAMlA. 



Nat. ord. Lobeliaceje. 

 LOBELIA. Suprd, vol. 1, fol. 60. 



L. heterophylla ; glabriuscula, caule angiilato siinplici, racemo secundo, foliis 

 crassiusculis : inferioribus dentato-pinnatifidis, superioribus linearibus inte- 

 gerrimis, corollae labii inferioris lacinia media obcordata : lateralibus dimi- 

 diatis. R. Br. prodr. 420. 



L. heteropbylla. Labillard. nov. holl. 1 . p. 52. /. 74. 



This very beautiful half-hardy herbaceous plant was first 

 sent me in September last, by Mr. J. Ingram, of Southamp- 

 ton. It had been raised by Mr. William Shenton, of Win- 

 chester, who received it from Van Diemen's Land, from his 

 brother. It afterwards reached me from Mr. Veitch, of the 

 Mount Radford Nursery, near Exeter, with a memorandum 

 that the plant had been hung up iti the stove for more than a 

 month without the least soil, and without ceasing to flower ; 

 a very singular fact, and quite new in plants of this de- 

 scription. I have also been favoured with it by Mr. Man- 

 gles and others. 



It is much the handsomest of the herbaceous Lobelias, as 

 will be obvious from the accompanying plate. The flowers 

 are of a particularly clear, rich blue, and so large as to pro- 

 duce a very rich and gay appearance, either when the plant 



* See folio 1612. 



