Lobeliacea.'] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
Avery extensive genu-, found in all parts of the temperate and tropical world, of wind 
cies are for the most part insignificant and often creeping weeds ; bin some an- erect and rather pretty plants.— 
Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary or in terminal racemes, usually pale blue. CV//^-tube obconie or ovoid, often 
gibbous, its lobes five, unequal, sometimes one- or two-toothed. Corolla with a nearh siraight tube, slit down tin 
back, two-lipped ; upper lip smaller, lower three-lobed. Sfanifins .pigvnous m- inserted on tin- c ■■ 
combined into a tube, two or more bearded at their tips. Capsule membranous or coriaceous, often gibbous, 
two-celled, many-seeded, dehiscing at the apex. (Named in honour of Mathias tie //O/W. a Flemish botanist and 
author.) 
1. Lobelia anceps (Thunb. Prodr. Cap. 40); glaberrima, caule compteaao trigono angufii alatia 
erecto v. basi decumbent, , i liis decim ntibns lin rib - spatbula - ciuicatisv< integerrhnis v. 
dentate, peduiiculis axillaribus folio brevioribus, capsiilis rUnulrareis. — L. alata <■> L ruiieifonnis, hah, 
Nov. Boll 51. L 72 et 73 ; Br. Prodr. 501. (Gvnn, 395.) 
Hab. Common in marshy places, especially near the sea. — (Fl. Nov., Dec) (r. v.) 
Distrib. Throughout Tropical and South-eastern and SonJh-wesh rn Australia, New Zealand. Chili, 
and South Africa. 
2. Lobelia surrepens (Hook. 61.) ; parvula, glabra, cauhbus 
crassis, foliis approximatis obovato-la? itisve obtusis integt minis in petiolum 
angustatis carnosiusculis ba>i interduin subciliatis, pedimeulis folio btvviorihus axillaribus 1-lloris, 
tubo brevi obconico glaberrimo, lobis brevibus triaiigulari-ovatis, corolla* tubo ealyce subduplo 1 
laciniis oblon-is, staminibus basi corolla insertis. {Gvnn, 1170.) (Tab. LXIX. A.) 
Hab. Alpine places, 3-4000 feet, in marshy ground : Arthur's Lakes, Marlborough, summit of 1 
Mountains, etc., (?*»».— (FL Jan.) 
This little species is most nearly allied to I. a ■ '"» of that S I*'« 
1-2 inches long. Leares crowded, mther tle-h>, oh >wi!< m > ._ • ■ ' ' — !'•' " • . ■ 
short petiole, blunt, quite entire or obscure!] toot oy, snon i . n 
small, pale blue. Stamens inserted at the very base of the tube of th< o n 
2, corolla laid open, showing the insert* 
3. Lobelia pedunculata (Brown, Prodr. : > Ih1s repentibuj 
catisve ramosis gracilibus, foliis parvis distirliis petiolulati peduncuhs axd 
brevibus elongatisve oalycibu^nie pubescentibus, <-.b.> tub., br. u !• his sti.ml.iu- tnaugulanbusve, i 
tubo breviusculo, staminibus basi tubi corolla 1 fi« 
LXIX.I>\) 
Hab. Not uncommon in good soil, where damp : on the margin of rivers, and occasionally 
mountains, Gv.nn.—{Y\. Oct.) {v. v.) 
