Lobelia nana Kunth

Lobelia nana H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 317. pi. 272. 1819
Lobelia bellis F. E. Wimmer, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22 : 193. 1926. [Liebmann pi. tnex. 9204, Copenhagen !) Dortmannia nana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 973. 1891. Stems slender, less than I mm. in diameter, 5-20 cm. long, glabrous, several arising from a stout erect perennial caudex, then creeping and rooting at the nodes; plant sometimes tufted, without creeping stems; leaves 10-20, glabrous or the margins ciliate near base, more or less two-ranked, ovate, spatulate or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse at tip, narrowed at base into a margined petiole, the margin shallowly crenate with callose teeth, the teeth sometimes few or none, the blades usually 2-2.5 times as long as wide, 0.3-1 (1.5) cm. wide, 0.6-1.5 (4) cm. long, including petiolar base; flowers 2-4, solitary in the axils of ordinary leaves, the pedicels stiff, erect, up to nearly 1 mm. in diameter, (7.0) 20-65 (160) mm. long, smooth and glabrous; bracteoles basal, minute, often apparently wanting; flower 10-13.5 mm. long, including hypanthiimi; corolla glabrous, blue with a white eye, the tube 3-4 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure, the three lower lobes ovate or spatulate, mucronulate, 3.0-3.5 mm. wide, 5-6 mm. long, the two upper lobes narrow, acute, 1-2 mm. wide, 5-6 mm. long; filament-tube 2.03.5 (4.5) mm. long, glabrous; anther-tube 1.2-2.0 mm. long, dark bluish-gray, the two smaller anthers slightly white-tufted at tip; hypanthium in anthesis short-campanulate, glabrous, in fruit becoming campanulate, 2.5-4 mm. in diameter; capsule one-third to one-half inferior, 5.0-6.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes lance-deltoid, 2.5-4.5 mm. long, glabrous, entire, acute or blunt at tip; seeds ellipsoid, lustrous, smooth or very minutely lined, 0.4-0.5 mm. long.
TvTB LOCAUTi': Hidalgo ("juxta Real del Monte et Moran, alt. 1340 hex."). Distribution: Chihuahua to Vera Cruz and Chiapas; also in the Andes from Colombia to Argentina and Chile; found mostlv at elevations of 2500-4000 m.