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5ENTANDRIA MONOQVNlAt LobelilX. 



deserve consideration whether it ought not to constitute a new ge- 

 nus in that order." 



LOBELIA. Scforeh. Gen. N. 1S63. 



Calyx five-cleft. Carol one-petalled, -irregular. Anthers united., 

 Capsule inferior, two or three-ceiled. 



1. L. nkotianifolia, Heyne's Mss. 



Erect Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolar, acute, entire. Raceme ter« 



ininaL 



A stout, tall species, first described by Mr. Heyne, who found 



it indigenous in the vicinity of Bangalore, 



Addition % ISt. W. 



Specimens of this line plant are preserved in Dr. Heyne's her- 

 barium marked L. acuminata* It has been given in Syst. Veg. v. 

 47, under the name of nkotianifolia , Roth. 



A tall, herbaceous, erect, pubescent species.^ — Stem as thick as 

 the little finger, angular, fistulous, covered with soft pubescence, 

 with scattered, simple, erecto-patent, panicled branches. — Leaves 

 very numerous, scattered irregularly, spreading, lengthened, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, contracted at the base, sessile, marked along the 

 margins with minute gland-cuspidate crenatures, pubescent under- 

 neath, with parallel oblique nerves, from six to eight inches long; 

 the uppermost gradually smaller, about two inches long, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, more distinctly serrulate. — Racemes terminal, cylindric, 

 from six to fourteen inches high, and three fingers broad, erect, with 

 copious glaucous pubescence, densely covered with spreading lilac- 

 coloured, large flowers, leafy, Rachis thick and angular. Pe- 

 duncles approximated, about an inch and a quarter long, almost 

 villous, supported by a lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, foliaceous^ 



