PLATE DCLIX. 



LOBELIA FULGENS. 



Refulgent^owered Lobelia. 



CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. 



SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers simple. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Calyx 5-fidus, Corolla 1-petala, irregularis, il Cup 5-cleft. Blossom 1-petalled, irregular. Cap- 

 Capsula infera, 2- seu 3-locularis. I sule beneath, 2- or 3 -celled. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Lobelia foliis lanceolatis obsolete denticulatis, 

 supra tomentosis, glabris, subtus lucidis: 

 racerais compositis, terminalibus. 



Lobelia with lance-shaped leaves obscurely 

 toothed, downy on the uppersurface, smooth, 

 and shining beneath : the racemes compound 

 and terminal. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The chives. 



2. Empalement and pointal, summit magnified. 



Amongst the Lobelias, this elegant species claims altogether precedence ; superior in colour even to 

 the L. cardinalis, large in its flowers, tall in growth, and so easily cultivated that their abundance 

 and beauty will ensure thera admission into every collection. Our figure was made from a plant in the 

 collection of J. Vere, Esq. in the summer of 1810. It was raised from Botany Bay seed at the Ham- 

 mersmith Nursery in iSOp. 



