Pineland Lobelia

Lobelia homophylla F. E. Wimmer, Repert. Sp. Nov 22: 194. 1926.
Lobelia clifforliana var. xalapensis A. Gray, Svn. Fl. 2': 7. 1878. Not Ixibelia xalapensis H.B.K. 1819.
Stem erect, simple or with ascending subordinate branches, 5 mm. in diameter or less at base, few-50 (75) cm. high, green, or rarely somewhat purplish, glabrous or with a few hairs below; leaves few-20, cauline but sometimes clustered near base, membranous when dry, glabrous or sparsely hairy near base and on veins above, the blades up to 4.5 cm. wide, 6 cm. long, sHghtly longer than broad or not so, ovate, obtuse at tip, rounded or cordate at base and then attenuate into a narrowly margined petiole 1-4 cm. long, the margins coarsely and irregularly toothed, the teeth usually blunt or broad-pointed; inflorescence few-40 cm. long, not secund, few-50-flowered, often corymbose when young, appearing pedunculate, the stem naked 3-9 cm. below the lowest bract; lower flowers often distant; pedicels slender, spreading or rather strongly ascending, mostly 10-15 mm. long in fruit, glabrous, bracteolate at base; flower-bracts subulate, entire, glabrous or ciliate on margins, 3-5 mm. long or the lowermost larger; flower 6.5-10 mm. long, including h)-panthium; corolla blue, glabrous without, the tube sparsely hairy within, 4.0-4.8 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure, which extends to a point less than 1 mm. from base, the three lower lobes elliptic or ovate, fused into a distinct lip, the two upper lobes narrow, linear or nearly so, erect; filament-tube 3.0-3.5 mm. long, the filaments glabrous distally, free half their length and there slightly hairy; anther-tube 1.0-1.5 mm. long, bluish gray, the three larger anthers bristly near tips or glabrous; hypanthium in anthesis flat or shallowly cup-shaped, enlarging and shallowly cup-shaped in fruit, glabrous; capsule 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, 4-6 mm. long, ellipsoid, one-fourth to one-third inferior; calyxlobes linear-subulate, entire, 2-3.5 mm. long, glabrous or ciliate on the margins; seeds ellipsoid, brown, highly polished, smooth, about 0.4 mm. long.
Type locality: St. Augustine, Florida. Curliss 6363 (isotype, US'). Distribution: Peninsular Florida, north about to St. Johns County.