: 60° 
LOBELIA. splendens. 
Shining Lobelia. : 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. P38 be 
LOBELIA, Corolla irregularis tubo hinc fisso (rard: integro) ; 
limbo 5-partito. Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). . 
Capsula bilocularis (rard 3-loc.), apice supero bivalvi. aes 
_ Herbe (v. Suffrutices) plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra — 
v. laciniata, rard fistulosa. Flores racemosi terminales, 0. axillures 
solitarit, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis, Anthere se@pits barbate. 
Brown prodr. 1. 562. betas 
L. splendens, foliis angusto-lanceolatis, denticulatis,, margine planis, 
cauleque glaberrimis: racemo terminali. Willd. hort. berol. 86. 
cum tab. Nae eg : 
Radix perennis, jibrosa, @ centro exserens brevissimos stolones. Caulis 
2-4 pedalis modd ramosus, sulcato-subangulatus, purpureus, glaberrimus, 
nitidus. Folia sessilia, 2-3 pollicaria, apice attenuata, approximata, nitida. 
Flores terminales, racemosi, subsecundi. Bractese lanceolate, pedunculum 
subequantes, denticulate. Pedunculi calyce breviores, ut tota planta glabri. 
Cal. 1-phyllus, superus, 5-partitus, lac. lanceolatis acutis integerrimis, erectis, 
1-nerviis, apice inflexis. Cor. coccinea, glaberrima, splendens ; tubus ovato- 
oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer postea longitudinaliter utroque latere 
- fissus ; limbus lacinits binis superioribus, lineari-lanceolatis, angustis, basi erec- 
tis, apice reflexo-patentibus, 3 inferioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, deflexis, planis. 
Stam. fil. dineari-lanceolata, margine coherentia, apice et basi partim sejuncta ; 
anth. erecta, lineari-oblonge, coherentes, apice pilose. erm. (semiinfe- 
«rum ), calyce obductum, 10-sulcatum : . stylus Jiliformis : stig. bilamellatum. 
Caps. 3-/oc., 3-valv., calyce tecta, apice dehiscens. Sem. minutissima.— 
Willd. Hae Clee : 
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An addition to our gardens subsequent to the enuméra- 
tion of the species of this genus in the late edition of the 
Hortus Kewensis. Native of Mexico, and raised, as well 
as fulgens, which made its appearance in Europe at the same 
time, from seed brought home by Messrs. Humboldt and — 
Bonpland from their celebrated travels. Introduced from 
Paris about a year ago. May be known from -fulgens at 
first sight, altho’ closely akin, by a smooth shining surface, 
which in the other is clothed by a short close pubescence, 
imparting to it a paler opaque appearance, as if it were ob- 
scured by dust. Splendens is the taller-growing plant, pro- 
duces offsets from the axis of the rootstock in a horizontal 
direction, not from the side, perpendicularly; the leaf is- 
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