Siphocampylus decumbens (Rich. ex Schult.) Juss. ex A. DC.

Siphocampylus decumbens A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7: 397. 1839
Lobelia decumbens A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7: 388, as syn. 1839.
Stem erect or decumbent, herbaceous or slightly woody at base, simple or with few subordinate branches, up to 3 mm. in diameter, up to 75 cm. high, green or straw-colored, glabrous; leaves cauline, about 15, spreading, thin-papery when dry, glabrous, or with a few hairs on the midrib above, the margins coarsely and sharply serrate, the principal teeth 2-4 per cm., 2-3 mm. high, usually with 1-3 intermediate smaller teeth between each pair, the blades elliptic to ovate, 2-4 cm. wide by 5-7.5 cm. long, 1.7-3.5 times as long as wide, the tip acute or somewhat acuminate, the base rounded, attenuate into a slender petiole 1.5-3 cm. long; inflorescence a terminal raceme 15 cm. long or less, loosely few-15-flowered; pedicels spreading-ascending, about 0.5 mm. in diameter, 10-12 mm. long, bristly-pubescent, each with a pair of filiform bracteoles about 2 mm. long, one-fourth to one-third the distance from the base to the apex of the pedicel; flower-bracts foliaceous, elliptic, toothed, the lowest as large as 1.5 cm. broad, 4.5 cm. long, on a petiole 1 cm. long, the upper bracts smaller, about 1 cm. long; flower about 3.5 cm. long, including hypanthium; corolla red, puberulent without, glabrous within except near base, the tube straight, slightly enlarged distally, 21-23 mm. long, fenestrate, the two upper lobes oblong, acute, not curved, about 3.5 mm. wide, 1 1 mm. long, the three lower lobes similar, slightly decurved; filament-tube about 22.5 mm. long, glabrous distally, the filaments free at base and there pubescent, free from the corolla; anther-tube about 4.5 mm. long, all the anthers densely white-hairy near tip, otherwise smooth; hypanthium in anthesis puberulent, depressedhemispheric, rounded or somewhat flattened at base, red; fruit not seen; calyx-lobes subulate, puberulent, obscurely toothed, red, about 1 mm. broad at base, 6 mm. long; seeds not seen.
Type locality: "In Sancto-Domingo" (herb. Paris, Field Mus. Neg. 381971). Distribution: Hispaniola (Haiti; "Santo Domingo").