236 LOBELIACEAE, [ Lobelia. 
at the top with a tuft of short stiff hairs. Style shortly 2-lobed, with 
2 patches or a ringlet of short hairs below the lobes. Capsule 2-celled, 
opening at the top into 2 loculicidal valves. Seeds numerous, small, with 
a thin smooth testa. — Mostly herbs, but all Hawaiian species shrubby. 
Peduncles 1-flowered, in the axils of leaves, or in terminal bracteate 
racemes or spikes 
A very ate genus, spread over the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 
Corolla curved, with hg den upper lobes, cream-colored; all 
sittiand penteirians’ seeds marginate 
Corolla suberect, the upper ake spreading; lower anthers only 
ici ovoid: 
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Gaudichaudii. 
nding in a single race ceme ; flow: ms lish ; ; i 2. L. yuccoides. 
Flowers pink or rose-colored; capsule yr A peer a Rat Vereen 3. L. macrostachys. 
Flowers bluish; capsule ‘aegis Be superior, with a conical vertex 
Leaves glabrate; capsule . 4. L. neritifolia. 
Leaves white tomentose fai capsule cylindrical : 5. L. hypoleuca. 
1, L. Gaudichandii, DC. Prod. VI, 384 — Stem erect, 2—3‘ thick 
near the base, with a thin woody zone and a thick compact medulla, 
closely covered with rhomboidal leaf-scars, loosely foliose near the top, 
4— igh, generally simple and’ continuing directly into a pyramidal 
bractesibe raceme of 11/2:—2 ft. in length, rarely with 1 or 2 short suberect 
secondary racemes from the base of the terminal one. L s cops 
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Calyx greenish, glabrous, the obeonical tube 5 < 6", the broad foliaceous 
lobes twice as long, and imbricate in the bud, dectiGous after flowering. 
edgings, all penicillate at the apex. Capsule hard, almost woody, 0 
conical, 10 7”, with 10 ribs, free in its nda third, which is conical 
and opens late by loculicidal dehiscence. S pressed, reniform or 
orbicular; margined, with little albumen, sitechod pri se, 1” long, the 
testa thin and pale. — Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bon., tab. 45. — Gray, in Proc. 
Am Ac. Vv. 150. — Wawra, in Flora, 1873, p. 58. — The seeds are, 
as described, in capsules already open at the vertex. With age the 
calycine covering withers away, le eaving a fenestrate woody net- work 
which encloses the now Beco pergameneous cap: 
Oahu! on Konahuanui and Waiglani; rh pad radah Pohakupili and Waia- 
leale (Wawra & Kn.); at eas of 3000 t On Eeka the plant is not scarce, 
