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LOBÈLIA colorata.
Red-kaved Lobelia.
L i n n e a n Class and Order. P E N T A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA
Natural Order. C AM PA N U L A C E Z E . Brown p rodr. 1. p . 559.
Trib. 2. L o b e l i a c b a ; .
L O B E L L A . Suprà fol. 86. series 2.
L colorata, glabra ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis erose dentatis, racemo spicato
folioso, pedunculis nudis, segmentis calycinis linean-subulatis margine
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The whole plant perfectly smooth. Zooi perennial. Stems
upright, simple, about the thickness of a goose quill, from
4 to 5 feet high. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate,
copiosely and unequally toothed, especially the up-
per ones, which are also waved at the edges, attenuated towards
the base, stained of a deep red, and from 3 to 6 inches
long. Flowers crowded, in a spiked, leafy raceme. Peduncles
very short, naked. Bractes linear-lanceolate, toothed,
twice or thrice longer than the flower-stalks. Calyx smooth,
5-partite ; the segments linear, rather awl-shaped, pointed,
with the edges recurved, and quite entire. Corolla smooth,
of a deep azure, rather inclining to purple, somewhat longer
than the calyx, cleft along the back, the limb bilabiate;
lower lip of 3 ovate, slightly pointed, concave lobes, keeled
underneath; the upper lip deeply divided into 2 lanceolate,
acute carinate, upright segments. 5, cohering, Lilo.'-
»zeKi/compressed, blue, fringed at the base. Anthers cream-
coloured. Style filiform, recurved at the top. Stigma bilabiate,
furnished at the base with a white bearded ring; the
lips concave, with a thick, even margin. Ovarium 2-celled,
half-inferior.