■Lobelia, pehtandria monqgynia* 1I& 



7. L. rosea, Wall 



Covered with glaucous soft dense villosity. Stem panicled. Leaves 

 lanceolar-ensiform, acuminate, finely denticulate. Racemes termi- 

 nal with unilateral flowers. Segments of the calyx equalling the tube,. 



This very handsome species was found by my people at Noako* 

 te,* in blossom in March. 



A leafy, erect, annual plant, from four to six feet high, abundantly 

 covered with greyish soft villosity, which gives the whole a glaucous 

 appearance; as it grows old it becomes smoother on? all its parts. — - 

 Stem about the thickness of a finger, tapering ; branches simple, pa- 

 nicled. — Leaves very numerous, scattered, spreading, approximate, 

 between ensiform and lanceolate, acuminate, tapering downwards, 

 sub-sessile, finely denticulate, from eight to twelve inches long; the 

 uppermost gradually smaller; floral ones linear-lanceolate, about ait 

 inch long, rather rounded at the base. — Racemes terminal, oblong, 

 erect, leafy, about six inches long, forming a panicle. — Flowers numer- 

 ous, unilateral, an inch long, nodding and almost pendulous, pube- 

 scent. — Peduncles adscending, half an inch long, supported by a fo- 

 Iiaceous bracte.—Calycine laciniccYmezr, acute, equalling. the tube. — 

 Corolla like that of L pt/ramidalis but larger, of a pale rose colour^ 

 very villous within ; tube whitish. — Filaments villous, distinct at tha 

 base. Anthers connected into a long purple incurved tube, which. 

 has a few hairs along the seams, and round the mouth — Ovarium. 

 round, ovate, ten-neived, bi~ or tri-locular, villous. — Stigma pu- 

 bescent. 



8. L. begonifolia, Wall. I. c. 377. 



Creeping, villous. Leaves short-petioled, round, cordate, dentate* 

 with unequal base. Teduncles axillary, one- flowered, as long as the 



• This valley is about one days journey to tlie W. and S. of that of Nipal proper; 

 it is far. less elevated than that, and therefore much hotter in summer and milder in 

 winter. Its vegetable productions strikingly correspond v.ilh those of the lowes. 

 parts of that country— N. W. 



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