Lobelia
erinus
Plants
herbaceous or rarely suffrutescent, usually with milky juice.
Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate.
Flowers mostly perfect, usually 5-merous except as to carpels.
Ovary inferior or partly so, a flower-tube mostly not much developed
above it. Sepals or calyx lobes
mostly 5, persistent. Corolla
sympetalous, regular or irregular. Stamens distinct or united.
Style 1; ovary 2-5 loculed, sometimes without internal septum.
Fruit a capsule with many minute seeds.
About 60 genera and 1600 species of temperate and tropical regions; many
of ornamental use. (Munz, Flora
So. Calif. 322).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family: