Lobelia kraussii Graham

Lobelia kraussii Graham, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 8:379. 1830
Rapuntium Kraussii Presl, Prodr. Mon. Lob. 27. 1836.
Stem erect, herbaceous, mostly simple, slightly woody at base, where 0.5-0.7 cm. in diameter, up to 120 cm. high, glabrous, often roughened and ridged below; leaves indistinguishable from those of L. persicifolia; flowers axillary, the inflorescence like that of L. persicifolia; pedicels and bracteoles as in that species; flower inverted, mostly 29-37 mm. long, including hypanthium; corolla red, glabrous, the tube about 20 mm. long, straight or nearly so, fenestrate at base and scarcely dilated there; filament-tube red, 17-21 nun. long; flowers and seeds otherwise as in L. persicifolia; hypanthium in anthesis conic or cup-shaped, in fruit conic, turbinate or broadly turbinate, 4.5-6 mm. in width at widest point; capsule about two-thirds inferior, 6-9 mm. long; calyx-lobes like those of L. persicifolia.
Type locality; Dominica, Dr. Krauss 409 (Edinb.!).
Distribution: Dominica and Martinique, at elevations up to about 1000 m.