236 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Lobeliacea. 
I have no specimens. Mr. Gunn suggests that it may be a monstrous state of 8. graminifolium, and sends forms 
of that plant, resembling it in habit and in the inflorescence. 
Gen. II. FORSTERA, Linn. fit. 
Mores monoici v. dioici. Calyx 1-3-bracteolatus ; limbus 3-6-partitus. Corolla campanulata ; lim- 
bus 4-9-fidus; faux rmda v. glanduloso-incrassata. Glandules epigynse staminibus alternae. Anthem 
2, ad apicem columnae oppositse, rima transversali dehiscentes. Stigma 2-lobum v. stigmata 2, floribus 
fertilibus porrecta, plumosa, masculis intra antheras occlusa. Ovarium 1-2-loculare ; ovula pluriraa, co- 
lumnse centrali affixa, ascendentia, anatropa. Fructus capsularis, 1-locularis, septicide ? bivalvis. Semina 
minima, conferta; testa reticulata.— Herbse perennes, solitaries, simplicesv. ramis dense congestis museoidece ; 
folia alterna, imbricata ; flores sessiles v. pedunculati, alhi. 
Very remarkable alpine plants of Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fuegia, nearly allied to Stylidium.— Stems 
simple and solitary in the Tasmanian species, in others branched and densely tufted, forming broad, hard, mossy 
patches. The F. bellidifolia is a small, scapigerous species, with a rosulate tuft of coriacous, spathulate leaves, each 
about i-1 inch long. Scape 3-5 inches long, slender, one- (rarely two-) flowered, with one to three bracts at the 
top. Flowers small, white, inclined. Ovary turgid, two (P)-celled, with many ovules. Calyx-lobes six, erect, blunt, 
minutely eiliate. Corolla white, campanulate, with a five-lobed, spreading limb, and short tube ; the lobes linear- 
oblong, blunt, with small, bifid lobules in the angles. Stamens and style united into a central, erect column, sur- 
mounting the ovary, having at its base two large glands. Anthers on the top of the column sessile, bursting trans- 
versely, the two halves hooded, upper turned back. Stigma two-lobed, inconspicuous in the male flowers, plumose 
and spreading in the fertile. Fruit a membranous, many-seeded capsule. (Named in honour of /. R. Forster, the 
Naturalist who accompanied Captain Cook's second voyage.) 
1. Forstera bellidifolia (Hook. Ic. PL t. 851) j foliis omnibus radicaiibus elliptico-oblongis obtusis 
spathulatis coriaceis glaberrimis integerrimis, scapo gracili 1-floro apicem versus bracteolato, flore inclinato, 
calycis tubo globoso, limbo breviter campanulato inaequaliter breviter 5-lobo, lobis ciliolatis, corollse tubo 
brevi, lobis 6 lineari-oblongis obtusis lobulis bifidis interjectis, stigmatis lobis imequalibus, inferiore decurvo 
longiore, capsula oblonga. {Gunn, 277.) 
Hab. Mount Sorrell, and summit of the range above Birches Inlet, Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan, 
Gnnn.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Nat. Ord. XLVL LOBELIACEtE. 
There are about forty species of this Order known to inhabit Australia, most of them belonging to 
the genus Lobelia itself. They are pretty equally distributed along the coasts of the Continent, a few 
being common to both the eastern and western divisions, and one, Lobelia anceps, to various other parts of 
the world. As an Order, Lobeliacece are hardly separable from Campanulacea, and some varieties of the 
Tasmanian Campanulaceous genus, Wahlenbergia saxicola, having a slightly irregular corolla, break down 
one of the best characters that separate them. 
Gen. I. LOBELIA, L. 
Calyx 5-lobus, tubo obconico, ovoideo v. hemisphgsrieo. Corolla superne longitudinaliter fissa, bila- 
biate, tubo recto v. paulo curvo, labio superiore minore inferiore latiore patente 3-lobo. Anthem 2, inferiors 
v. rarius omnes apice barbatse. Capsula 2-locularis, apice valvis porisve dehiscens.— Species Tasmania? omnes 
herbacecs; foliis alternis ; floribus axillaribus v. racemoso-spicatis ; corolla plerisque pallide carulea. 
