Lobelia hypnodes E. Wimm. ex McVaugh

Lobelia hypnodes F. E. Wimmer; McVaugh, Am. Midi Nat. 24: 698. 1940.
Annual (?^; stem erect, with a few small lateral branches below the inflorescence, about 2.5 mm. in diameter at base, green, up to 60 cm. high, glabrous or sparsely ciliate about the axils of leaves; cauline leaves about 10-12, spreading, membranous, glabrous except for scattered hairs near the base and margins, on the upper side; blades up to 3.5 cm. wide by 6.5 cm. long, ovate, rounded or cordate at base, short-acuminate at tip, the margins subentire with eallose teeth or sinuate-dentate, the teeth callose-tipped ; petiole distinct from blade, scarcely margined, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, ciliate on upper side; inflorescence somewhat secund, 14-23 cm. long, 25-3 1 -flowered, appearing short-pedunculate (3-6 cm.); pedicels spreading or standing at a 45° angle to the stem, filiform, 9-12 mm. long in fruit, short-prickly-pubescent, each wth a pair of bracteoles near the base, the tip of the pedicel abruptly bent so that the mature capsule is incurved toward stem; flower-bracts linear-subulate, usually ciliate, 3-5 mm. long, decurrent; flower about 10.5 mm. long, including hypanthium; corolla glabrous, nearly white (?), the tube fenestrate laterally and cleft dorsally almost to the very base, ciliate within, about 5 mm. long, the lobes of the lower lip narrowly elliptic, mucronate, about 4 mm. long; lower lip minutely pubescent at base within, the two upper lobes linear-subulate, about 1.5 mm. wide by 4.0 ram. long; filament-tube 4.5 mm. long, the filaments united about half their length; anther-tube 1.5 mm. long, the two smaller anthers white-tufted at tip, the others stifT-bristly on backs; hypanthium in anthesis with the tube scarcely visible, flat, at the base of the ovary, the calyxlobes erect; capsule wholly superior, at maturity ellipsoid, about 3 mm. across by 4 mm. long, surrounded by the ruptured but persistent corolla; caI>Tc-lobes narrowly deltoid, smooth, 2.5-3 mm. long, attached at base to the flat, disk-like hypauthium-tube; seeds roughened and cellularret iculate, dark browTi, about 0.5 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong, trimcate at one end.
T^TE LOCAUTV: Vicinity of Tantoyuca, Vera Cruz, C&rdetias 482 (Field!).
Distribution: Vicinity of Tantoyuca, Vera Cruz.