Lobelia santa-luciae Rendle

Lobelia santa-luciae Rendle, Jour. Bot. 75: 74. 1937
Stem erect, herbaceous, tall, with a few short leafy branches, 1 cm. in diameter above the base, glabrous; radical leaves narrowly oblanceolate, narrowed into a petiole, acute at tip, the margin crenate-dentate above the middle; leaves papery when dry, with a prominent midrib, up to 20 cm. long, including petiole, and 2.2 cm. broad; inflorescence elongated, about 80flowered, the whole flowering branch about 1 m. long, sparsely leafy below, floriferous above the middle; pedicels about 2 cm. long, stiff and ascending in fruit, each with a pair of linearlanceolate denticulate bracteoles about the middle; flower-bracts narrowly oblanceolate, acute, sparsely denticulate, shorter than the pedicels and scarcely adnate to them; corolla about 25 mm. long, rose-colored, falcate about the middle, the tube about 12 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure (?), the two upper lobes linear, acute or subacute, the three lower lobes similar, much shorter, forming a distinct lower lip; filament-tube about 16 mm. long; anthertube 5 mm. long, the anthers all bearded at the tips; hypanthium hemispheric, in fruit becoming about 1 cm. in diameter; capsule hemispheric, suberect, the woody valves recurved; calyxlobes broadly linear, denticulate above the middle, 6 mm. long; seeds ellipsoid, minutely reticulate, 1.25 mm. long.
Type locality: On a high knife-like ridge leading to summit of Mt. Gimie (3145 ft. alt.), St. Lucia, British West Indies, H. E. Box (Brit. Mus.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.