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LOBELTIA. fulgens. 
Refulgent Lobelia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
(Nonnullis Monadelphia Pentandria.) 
Nat. ord. Campanutacem. .Jussiew gen. 163. Div. ID. An- 
therze connate. 
Campanutacem. Brown prod. 559. Sect. II. Co- 
rolla irregularis (nunc J-petala). Anthere sepéd con- 
nate. 
LOBELIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 60. 
Ts Sulgens, erecta, simplex, subpubescens ; foliis elongato-lanceolatis 
attenuatis subintegerrimis, racemo multifloro, genitalibus longitudine 
corolla.  Pursh amer. sept. 2. 448. 
Lobelia fulgens. Andrews’s reposit. 659. Aiton’s Epitome, 370; in 
Add. Donn cant. ed. 8.57. Willd. hort. berol. 85. cum tab. Enum. 
QV. : 
Radix perennis, fibrosa, stolonifera. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, bipedalis 
et altior, simpléx v. ramosus, teretiusculus, sulcato-subangulatus, presertim 
basin versits, ex toto pube tenui obductus- Folia alterna, sessilia, ut .caulis 
pubescentia, lanceolata, apice attenuata, venosa, remote denticulata, margine 
revoluta, inferiora $-4-pollicaria, superiora sensim minora. Flores race- 
most, terminales, subsecundi. Bractez lanceolate, pedunculo longiores, in- 
Seriores majores, subintegerrime, pubescentes. Pedunculi alterni, pubescentes, 
calyce breviores. Calyx 1-phyllus, 5-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis, acutis, in- 
tegerrimis, erectis, 1-nerviis, apice patulis. Cor. coccinea. Tubus ovato- 
oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer posted longitudinalitér utrogue latere 
Jissus. Wimbus 5-partitus, laciniis 2 superioribus Fecapubarodtatts an- 
gustis, bast erectis, apice refleco-patentibus, 3 inferioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, 
reflexis, planis. Fil. lineari-lanceolata, margine coherentia, apice et basi 
pariim sejuncta. Anth. erecte, lineari-oblonge, coherentes, apice pilose. 
Germ. 10-sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stig. bilamellatum. “Caps. apice 
aehiscens. Sem. minuta. Willdenow. ne 
er eee eT 
Under the head Losetra splendens, in the first volume 
of this work, we have noticed the introduction of that 
Species from Mexico, along with the present. Both were 
obtained from seeds found in.specimens which the illus- 
trious travellers, Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, had pre- 
served in the Herbarium they brought home with them. 
Both have been rapidly multiplied, and already found 
their way into every garden and window. The present 
blossoms from August until the frost destroys it; splendens 
18 somewhat forwarder, and rather more hardy. If shel- 
