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§ LOBELIASURINAMENSIS. SHRUBBY LOBELIA*
Clafs and Order.
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA.
^^^^r^^ Generic Chardffer.
^^^ Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. i-petala, irregularis. Caff, infera, 2 five
^^_ g-locularis.
^IV Specific Charatler and Synonyms.
LOBELIA furinamenjis caule fuffruticofo, foliis oblongis
glabris ferratis, floribus axillaribus pedunculatis.
Ait. Kew. V. 3 . p. 498. 'Sp. PL 1 320.
w LOBELIA Itevigata foliis ellipticis ferratis glabris, capfulis
groflis globofis, calycibus fubulatis, corollis
glaberrimis. Linn. Suppl. p. 392. '
The Lobelia furinamenfis, a plant newly introduced here,
is minutely defcribed in the Suppl. PI. of the younger LIN-
XJEUS, under the name of l^vigata^ apparently from the
fmoothnefs of its flowers: in the year 1786, Mr. ALEXANDER
ANDERSON fent this plant to the Royal Garden at Kew, from
the Weft-Indies, where it grows fpontaneoufly, as well as at
Surinam; and Mr. AITON has inferted it at the end of the
Hort. Kew. afligning to it a new fpecific defcription, and a
new trivial name: our drawing was made from a plant which
flowered in the Hove of Meflrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Ken-
fington, to whom it was imparted by RICHARD MOLESWORTH,
Efq. of Peckham, a gentleman liberal in his communications,
and anxious to promote the caufe of Botany.
This fpecies of Lobelia is a ftove plant, having a fome-
what fhrubby ftalk, growing to the height of feveral feet;
its blbflbms are very large, of a pale red colour, and its
Antherae, which might be miftaken for the ftigma, unufually
hairy.
It begins to flower in January and February} and continues
to bloflbm during moft of the Cummer.
Is increafed by cuttings.