ments of the calyx, and by the withered corolla ; opening by two fissures, 
one orf each side at the extremity, 2-celled. Seeds numerous, attached to 
a central spongy receptacle. 
A hitherto undescribed species, native of Nepaul, and com- 
' Municated to our garden by the excellent Dr Wa..icu. 
I am not acquainted with any species of this genus with 
which the present can be confounded. It is clearly of the 
same family with the Lobelia cuneiformis, figured by La- 
BILLARDIERE in his Flora of New Holland, (the L. alata 8 
of Brown), like that plant having axillary one-flowered pe- 
duncles, and a remarkably triquetrous stem. But tlie leayes 
and capsule, as well as the size of the whole, are widely diffe- 
rent; and the diminutiveness of the flowers in this species forms 
a striking character. I possess, in my herbarium, a Lobelia 
from the same country, in many respects nearly allied to this, 
but different in its pubescent stem and leaves, and in the vast- 
ly larger size of the inflorescence. 
The present species flowered in the stove of our garden, du- 
ring the autumn of 1822, and bore seeds freely. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. Fig. 2. Upper view of the same. Fig. 3 
Lower lip of the limb. Fig. 4. Stamens, enclosing the style. Fig. 5. 
Single Anther. Fig. 6. Summit of the style and stigma. Fig. 7- Cap- 
sule. Fig. 8. The same cut through transversely. Fig. 9. Section of 
the stem.—All more or less magnified. 
