PLATE CCCXXXIX. 
LOBELIA CORONOPIFOLIA. 
Buck’s-horn-leaved Lobelia. 
CLASS -3X.. ORDER: Yi, 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cup 5-cleft. Bloflom 1-petal, irregular. Cap- 
fule beneath, 2 or 3-celled. 
See Lopexia piniroxia, Pl, CCLXXIII. Vol. IV. 
Caryx 5-fidus. Corolla 1-petala, irregularis. 
Capfula infera, 2-feu 3-locularis, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lobelia foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, glabris; flo- Lobelia with lance-fhaped leaves, toothed and 
ribus folitariis, axillaribus; pedunculis {mooth; flowers folitary, from the bafe of 
elongatis; ftigmatibus obtufis, pilofis, the leaves; foot-ftalks lengthened ; fummits 
blunt, hairy. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Chives magnified. 
2, The Cup, Chives, and Pointal, the Summit detached, magnified. 
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Tue charaéter of moft of the Lobelias from the Cape, and elfewhere, is, that they are either annua e 
om the Cape 
biennial, and can fcarcely be confidered as fhrubs. Our prefent fubjeé is a biennial fr cecil 
Good Hope, flowers the firft year from the feed, if fown in March, and may be preferved a of one 
year; butyas it feeds fo abundantly, it is fcarce worth the pains to preferve it, as the plants re 
year’s erowth are fo much handfomer than thofe preferved through the winter. It flowers from 
till O&ober, and fhould be kept in fandy peat earth. i 
The L. coronopifolia was aiclaesl a the Kew Colle@tion in 1787, by Mr. F. Maffon, ané 
now in moft collections. 
