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LOBELIA. arguta. 
Fine-toothed Lobelia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. LoBELIACER. 
LOBELIA, Supra, vol. 1. fol. 60. 
L. arguta; suffruticosa, caule subsimplice, foliis lineari-lanceolatis serrulatis 
utrinque glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus glabris foliis brevioribus, calyce 
‘hemispheerico nudo. 
Suffrutex 2-pedalis. Caulis subsimplex, foliosus, crassus, teres, glaber. 
Folia persistentia, lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, sepius 6 uncias longa, 
in petiolo attenuata, plana, serrulata, glaberrima. Flores luteo-aurantiact, 
axillares, foliis multd breviores, solitarit, pedunculat?. Pedunculus erectus, 
glaber, medio bibracteatus. Calyx glaber, foveolatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 
subulatis, erectis, integris. Corolla bilabiata, labio superiore laciniis duabus 
ad basin usque liberis, inferiore semitripartito, lacintis secundis omnibus 
linearibus canaliculatis apice semper coherentibus. Columna staminum cum 
corolld concolor, laciniis corolle brevior, et inter duas labii superioris lacinias 
protrusa. Antheree circa stylum summum coherentes, brunnee, lineares, 
glabriuscule. Stigma bilobum, lobis anticis et posticis patentibus, carnosis, 
ovatis, obtusis.—Obs. Lacinie corolle minutissime papilloso-ciliate. 
Introduced from Chili by Mr. Place, by whom seeds 
were communicated to the Horticultural Society in 1824, 
A frame, half-shrubby plant, which may be even preserved 
in the open border by means of a slight shelter in the 
winter. Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, 
in September last. 
This species is not referable to any of the numerous 
South-American Lobelias described in_ botanical books. 
It belongs to the same tribe as L. amygdalina, persicifolia, 
foliosa, and similar the South-American species, which are 
easily distinguished by their axillary inflorescence, and 
