112 PENTAWDRIA monogynu. Lobelia. 



serrulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, twice the length of the leaves 

 one-flowered. 



Accidentally introduced from China, into the botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, where it blossoms freely during the rains. Our plants 

 are but small, veryramous, spreading over the soil, and striking root 

 at every brauchlet. The flowers are large for the size of the plant, 

 pink- coloured ; segments of the corolla equal, unilateral, and narrow- 

 lanceolate, with two green glands under the two middle sinuses, op- 

 posite to the long, green, two-lobed stigma. 



Additions by N. fV. 

 This charming little plant seems to be different from that of 

 Thunberg, Linn. Trans, ii. 330. (L. Erinus Flor. jap. 325.) who 

 ■describes its leaves as being undulated, decurrent, which ours are 

 Mot. It is certainly perrennial ; it is only the stems that are creep- 

 ing ; the branches are erect, from four to six inches long, forming 

 dense and compact tufts, which render the plant peculiarly well suit- 

 ed for margins of beds. — Root consisting of thick, white cylindric 

 fibres. Stem as thick as a packthread, round, smooth ; branches with 

 Iwo opposite very small furrows, not angular. Leaves bifarious and 

 alternating, often vertical, from half an inch to an inch long, those of 

 the middle of the branches longest, the rest gradually decreasing, 

 slightly ciliated, especially towards the roundish basis which is sup- 

 ported by an extremely short petiol ; the margins on each side with 

 four or five minute cuspidulate glandular denatures. — Flowers 

 delightfully fragrant. Tube of the corolla twice as long as the ca- 

 lyx, pubescent, split two-thirds of its length. Tube of the anthers 

 incurved, a little hairy; the mouth ciliated below — Stigma nodding, 

 exserted together with the apex of the style beyond the anthers, 

 purplish, scabrous^ with two rounded diverging lobes.— Ovarium 

 cuneiform-oblong, ten-lined. — The plant seems also to differ from 

 3L. campanuloides of the same author, 1. cit. 331 (L. erinoides fl. 

 japao 3%Q) S and L. chinensis, Loureir, Cochinch, ed. Willd, ii. 628* 



