Lobelia cacuminis Britton & P. Wilson

Lobelia cacuminis Britton & Wilson, Bull. Torrey Club 50: 50. 1923.
Steins shrubby, simple or branched, up to 0.5 cm. in diameter, up to 3-4 m. tall, yellowish-brown and rough below, ridged by decurrent leaf-bases, pubescent above; cauline leaves 14 or more, spreading, stiff and papery when dry, glabrous above, the younger ones somewhat pubescent on the veins beneath and in the axils; blades coarsely serrale-dentalc with 1-4 triangular spreading or hooked teeth per cm., 2-4 cm. broad by 8-11 cm. long, 3-4 times as long as wide, narrowly to broadly elliptic, the apex cuneate with a short acuminate tip which is often somewhat falcate, the base narrowly cuneate, with a definite petiole 1-1.5 cm. long; inflorescence scarcely pedunculate, 5 cm. long or less, few-20-flowercd ; pedicels spreadingascending in anthesis, stiff, appresscd-pubescent, in fruit about 10 nun. long, widely spreading, each with a pair of suboppositc bracteoles 1-2 mm. long, 2-5 mm. above the base; flower-bracts linear, a)>out I mm. wide by 8 mm. long, decurrent, nearly glabrous; flower 15-18 mm. long, including hypanthium, not inverted; corolla 10-13 mm. long, glabrous, when dry purplishmaroon in color, the tube strongly fenestrate, even in bud, little curved; corolla as a whole somewhat arcuate, the lobes alK^ut 5 mtn. long (?); filamenttube about 10 mm. long, somewhat pubescent, the filaments distinct more than half their length; anther-tube 4.0 mm. long (or slightly more), purplish-gray in dry material, glabrous, the two smaller anthers obscurely white-roughened at tip; hypanthium in anthesis cup-shaped or hemispheric, pubescent near base, in fruit subglobose, about 7 mm. wide; capsule less than half inferior, about 9 ram. long, the narrowed tip projecting from the h>'panthium; calyx-lobes deltoid, 2.5-3 mm. wide at base, 6 mm. long, glabrous, entire or nearly so (sometimes nearly linear, 2 mm. wide, with dilated base) ; seeds not seen.
TiTE locality: Pico Tiirquino, Oriente, Cuba, Leon 10862 (NY!).
Distribution: Pico Turquino, Oriente, Cuba.

Lobelia cacuminis là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa chuông. Loài này được Britton & P.Wilson mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1923.