Lobelia conglobata Lam.

Lobelia conglobata Lam. Encyc. 3: 585. 1791
Tylomitim conglobaium Presl, Prodr. Mon. Lob. 32. 1836.
Tylomium conglobaium var. virescens Presl, Prodr. Mon. Lob. 32. 1836. (Nomen nudum.)
Tupa conglobata A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7: 395. 1839.
Lobelia conglomerala Sieber; Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 2; 59. 1841. (Nomen nudum.)
Dortmannia conglobata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 972. 1891.
Stem coarse, up to 0.5 cm. (or more), in diameter, glabrous (except the inflorescence); cauline leaves spreading, membranous, smooth and glabrous, or finely pubescent on the main veins beneath, evenly serrate-dentate with fine spiny teeth, the serrations about 4 per cm., or farther apart toward the base, up to 2 mm. long and standing at right angles to the margin, the blades 3-6 cm. wide by 12-22 cm. long, oblanceolate to elliptic, the tip narrowed abruptly to a short acumen about I cm. long, the base long-attenuate, subpetiolar; inflorescence a subcapitate raceme, about 5 cm. long, apparently more or less determinate, rather densely about 20-flowered; pedicels loosely spreading, very slender, 17-20 mm. long in flower, finely chaffy-hirsute, each with a pair of ciliate bracteoles 5-6 mm. long, about two-thirds of the distance from stem to hypanthium; flower-bracts linear or oblanceolate, 2-3 mm. broad by 20-28 mm. long, spreading, pubescent, spiny-toothed along the margins; flower inverted (?), about 20 mm. long, including hypanthium; corolla glabrous, the tube entire except for the dorsal fissure, the lobes next the dorsal fissure more or less erect, 1.5 mm. wide by 1 1 mm. long, the three lobes of the lower lip slightly decurved, ovate, 3 mm. long; filament-tube 13-15 mm. long, little exserted, glabrous; anther-tube 3 mm. long, all anthers densely white-tufted at tip; hypanthium in anthesis shallowly hemispheric, glabrous, about 4 mm. across; calyx-lobes subulate, acuminate, glabrous, conspicuously pectinately toothed, about 2 mm. wide by 13 mm. long; seeds and fruit not seen.
TvTE locality: Martinique, Surian herb. n. 709 (Paris, photo!). Distribution: Martinique.