Lobelia. PENTANDUZA MONOQVHIA. n$ 



A. L. zeylanica, Linn. 



Prostrate and creeping, pubescent. Stems and branches round. 

 Leaves sboi t-petioled, ovate, sub-cordate, acute. Peduncles axillary 

 equalling the leaves, one-flowered. 



I liave not seen it in Bengal. It is common in fields about Silhet ; 

 blossoming in the hot and rainy season; introduced from thence into 

 the, Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1815. 



Stem several feet long, prostrate, the base creeping, as thick as a 

 crow-quill, rather fleshy. — Branches scarcely adscending. — Leaves 

 alternate, fleshy, about an inch long, concave above, minutely ser« 

 rulate, serratures gland-cuspidate, both sides beset with a few short 

 pellucid hairs, base slightly retuse, apex for the most part acute. — 

 Petioles about three lines long, broadish. Peduncles filiform, as 

 Well as the calyx covered with much soft villosity ; two very minute 

 subulate bractes at their base, concealed within the axils. Calyx 

 strongly ten-ribbed, the alternate ribs shorter; lacinicz linear, some- 

 what unequal— Corolla purple; tube equalling the calyx ; limb bi- 

 labiate: upper-lip bipartite, adscending, pubescent, !acini& sub- 

 falcate; under-lip larger, descending, with two parallel white stripes 

 on the palate, laciniae lanceolate. Columna equalling the tube, ad- 

 scending a little above its longitudinal fissure. 



Obs. This is an elegant plant when in flower, differing from Rox- 

 burgh's trigona by its petioled, more rounded leaves, cylindiic stem, 

 and its pubescence. Lamarck's L. Numrnularia, Eucycl. bot. iii. 58y, 

 seems to come nearer my begonifolia than to this species. 



5. L. pyramidalis, Wall, in Asiat. Res. xiii. 376. 



Smooth, with erect panicled ramous stem. Leaves lanceolate, ta* 

 pering, acuminate, sen uhle,Jloral ones linear. Racemes leafy, pani- 

 cled. Segments of the calyx equalling the corolla. 



This is one of the most common as well as ornamental plants in 

 Nipal, where it grows both in low and elevated situations; I have 

 found it from the entrance to that country at Bechiako, up to the 

 mountains that bound the valley to the K and where it grows at a 



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