LOBELIA micranrna. 
Small-flowered Lobelia. 
PENTANDBIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Onv. CAMPANULACEE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla tubo hine fisso (raré integro); limbo quinquepartito. 
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Capsula bilocu- 
laris (xaro trilocularis), apice supero bivalvi—Herbe, vel Suffrutices, ple« 
reque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra vel laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores 
racemosi, terminales vel axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis vel nudis. 
Antheree sepius barbate.—Br. 
Div. I —Peduncul awillares A ha Herbacee. 
Lobelia micrantha; glabra, erecta, mle’ acute triquetro, foliis ovato-ro- « 
tundatis repando-dentatis wets 2x2 pedunculis folio longionibar, 
capsula obovata. Ss 
Root small, fibrous, annual. Stem 4-6 betes high, site acutely 3-angled, : 
with the angles subulate, quite glabrous, sometimes simple, more fre« 
quently branched near the base, the branches spreading, from 1 to 4 
inches in length. Leaves alternate; the lower ones nearly orbicular, the 
_ upper ones broadly ovate, the supreme ones ovate, all glabrous or very 
slightly pilose above, with their margins repando-dentate, the base atte- 
- muated into a shortish foot-stalk. | 
— the axils of the leaves, towards the upper part of the stem, arise the 
solitary slender flower-stalks, about an inch long, and. bea single 
flowers. . 
Calyx glabrous, green, with 5 spreading subulate segments. Copel: eX« 
tremely minute, pale purplish, pubescent. Tube cylindrical, slit down 
on the upper side for nearly the whole length, and exposing the stamens. 
Limb in 2 lips, upper one of 2 small, acute teeth, pointing obliquely up- 
wards ; the lower one of 3 ovate, acute slightly deflexed segments, with- 
in of rather a deep purple colour with a transverse pale band, at the 
base having 2 oblong pale green swellings or glands. Stamens united 
into a sheath by the filaments and the anthers, about as long as the tube. 
Anthers purplish, each with a tuft of white hairs at the extremity. 
Pollen yellow. Germen inferior, ovate, attenuated at the base, and marked 
with 5 elevated ribs. Style cylindrical, as long as the stamens. Stigma 
fringed, purplish. Capsule obovate, terminated by the persistent seg 
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