18G Dr Graham's Description of' Neiv or Rare Plants. 



The species is very nearly related to Lobelia Xalapensis, Humboldt, Nov. 

 Gen. Spec. Plant, v. iii. p. 246., but differs in the bractese and stem being 

 pubescent, in the sharp teeth of its leaves, in the longer peduncles and 

 pedicels, and in the calyx equalling the tube only, not the whole length 

 of the corolla. If Sprengel is right (System. Veget. i. 713.) in consider- 

 ing L. Xalapensis perennial, then L. mollis further differs in being strictly 

 annual ; but if I have not forgotten, and I have not the volume by me 

 at the moment, Humboldt makes no such statement. 



Lobelia rugulosa. 



Li.ruffulosa; foliis subrotundis, repandis, nervoso-rugulosis, glabris pe- 

 dunculis folia longe superantibus ; laciniis calycinis integerrimis, base 

 glaudulosis; caule maculato, prostrate, radicanti. 

 Description — Whole plant glabrous, with milky juice. Stem procum- 

 bent, diffused, much branched, slightly flexuose, covered with oblong, 

 dark olive-brown spots, obscurely channelled on two sides, one side of 

 each shallow groove having a slightly prominent edge. Leaves (4 lines 

 long, 3 broad) alternate, distichous, spreading at right angles to the 

 stem, flat, petioled, veined, dark green and slightly wrinkled above from 

 e elevated veins, paler below, edges slightly callous, repand, dentate. 

 Petioles about a third of the length of the leaves. Peduncles (If inch 

 long) solitary, axillary, erect, filiform, reddish below, green above. Ca- 

 lyx persisting, superior, segments awl-shaped, nearly equal, somewhat 

 spreading, quite entire, having along each edge at the base an oblong 

 gland, which is in certain states green and indistinct, in others white 

 and conspicuous. Corolla (8 lines across) white, marcescent, cleft nearly 

 to tlie base along the upper side, segments five, somewhat unequal, 

 spreading, slightly pointed, arranged like the radii of a semicircle, the 

 middle segment rather the largest and most linear, the others narrower, 

 more tapering at the base, and more deeply divided ; at the faux, the 

 four upper segments have in the middle a purple streak, the lowest seg- 

 ment, and the somewhat promment edges of the others in contact with 

 it, are at this point yellow. Stamens 5, equal to the length of the tube 

 of the corolla ; filaments free, curved, colourless ; anthers united, curved, 

 leaden-coloured, smooth, with two short awns projecting downwards 

 from their apex ; pollen wliite. Stigma large, glandular, bilobular, re- 

 volute, of a faint rose colour. Style green, bent at its apex. Germen 

 green, obovate, slightly compressed laterally, oblique, slightly furrowed, 

 bilocular, dissepiment in the shortest diameter with a seminal receptacle 

 on each side. Ovules numerous, minute, colourless. 

 We received this plant, without any specific name, from Messrs Young, 

 nurserymen, Epsom, in 1828. It is a native of New Zealand, and 

 flowered very freely in the greenhouse of the Royal Botanic Garden in 

 August and September. As far as I can judge by the description of Lo- 

 belia membranacea, in Prodr. Nov. Holland., it should stand next to that 

 species of Mr Brown. 



