Lobelia.| LOBELIACEAE, 235 
Staminal column free from the corolla: 
Seeds white, wrinkled, with a thin testa; corolla white or 
greenish, with a dorsal and often 2 lateral knobs; leaves 
fleshy, glabrous 5. Delissea. 
oe crustaceous, smoo oth and shining; corolla more or less 
rplish, without knobs; leaves not fleshy ; 6. Cyanea. 
1. BRIGHAMIA, Gray. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical, 10-ribbed, with short lobes. . Corolla salver- 
shaped, with a long and straight entire tube, the lobes oe valvate 
in the bud with inflected tips and margins, ar equal, but of them 
separated by deeper slits. Staminal column adnate to the pees below 
the middle, highest at the back; all ie bearded at the apex. Ovary 
bilocular, with peltate placentas. Stigma shortly 2-lobed, the rounded flat 
lobes faintly pubescent externally. Fruit a thin-skinned (fleshy?) capsule 
opening by 2 slits on each side. Seeds numerous, small ovoid, with a 
thin and smooth pale testa. Embryo shorter than the albumen. — A 
perennial plant. with a thick fleshy simple sli conically coaladetie at 
the base and densely foliose at the apex. Leaves entire. Flowers white, 
on erect axillary racemes, with small Piece bracts and straight 
pedicels. 
A Hawaiian genus of a single species, nearest related to Zsotoma, an Australasian 
genus, or which also a species occurs in the Society Islands. 
B. insignis, Gray, in Mann, Enum. no. 283. — Stem 5—12 ft. 
on several inches thick at the base, fleshy throughout and glabrous. 
Leaves 9—12' & 5— 6‘, obovate or ovate, with ee base, subsessile, 
thick fleshy, glossy, subentire or sinuate-cren Peduncle 2—5‘ long, 
naked below, bearing 5—15 flowers in its upper - balf on naked pedicels 
of '/,—1‘. Bracts small dentiform. Calyx-tube 6—7", its lobes triangular 
or lanceolate, 11!/2—4”. Tube of corolla 3—5’ long, the lobes 9—12", 
ovate acuminate, with contracting base, sometimes sabbilablate the 2 upper 
ones on a common claw divided by deeper sinuses from the others. 
Staminal column glabrous, almost white. Capsule ovoid to cylindrical, 
8—9” long, crowned with the calycine lobes. — Mann, in Mem. Bost. 
Soc. Nat. ue ie 531, pl. 23. 
Molokai! on steep palis of the northern coast, from Koolaupapa to soacesho in = 
numbers at the sian of the baje valley; N ithaw (Remy). The singular plant 
ct compared to a big cabbage-head stuck on a naked pole. e flowers are ep 
ented, with an odor like that of violets, haar’ the native name «Puaala>» 
2. LOBELIA, L. 
Calyx essa or lobed. Corolla slit open on the upper side to near 
the base, 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes half the length of the corolla, forming 
ie upper lip, the 3 lower united into a tridentate or trifid lower lip. 
Staminal tube free from the corolla, the 2 lower anthers or all bearded 
