41. 



LOBELIA FULGENS. 



Fulgent Lobelia. 



; Pentandria. Monogynia. 



Class 5. Older 1. 



Lobelia : from Matthias de Lobel, a Flemish botanist, who was phy- 

 sician to King James I. 



Linn. gen. n. 1006. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Cal. Perianth one-leafed, five-cleft, very small, growing round the 

 germ, withering ; toothlets nearly equal. Cor. one-petaled, irre- 

 gular ; the tube cylindric, longer than the calyx, divided longitu- 

 dinally above ; border five-parted ; divisions lanceolate, of which 

 the two superior ones are smaller, less reflex, more deeply divided, 

 constituting an upper lip j the three inferior ones more spreading, 

 frequently larger. Stam. Filaments five, awl-shaped, the length of 

 the tube of the petal, connate above. Anthers connate into an 

 oblong cylinder, gaping five ways at the base. Pist. Germ sharp- 

 pointed, inferior. Style cylindric, length of the stamens. Stigma 

 obtuse, hispid. Per. Capsule ovate, two- or three-celled, two- or 

 Ihree-valved, gaping at the top, girt by the calyx. Seeds many, 

 very small. Recept. conic. 



SPECIFIC CHAKACTKR. 



Leaves oblong, lanceolate, rather serrate, slightly villose ; flowers in 

 a spike. 



Root white and very fibrous. Leaves closely succeeding each 

 other on the stalk ; they are lanceolate, of a blueish green. 



