inents of the calyx, and by the withered corolla ; opening by two fissures^ 
one on 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 Wallich. 
1 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- 
bill ardiere in his Flora of New Holland, (the L.alata |3 
of Brown), like that plant having axillary one-flowered pe- 
duncles, and a remarkably triquetrous stem. But the leaves 
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.— more or less magnified. 
