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1. c. t. 71, 72. Var. longifolia, Gray, 1. c. G. grandifiora, Hook. 

 & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 88. O. Kakeana, Meyen, in Presl, Lob. 

 C. macrophylla, Nutt. G. macrocarpa, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bonite, t. 49. 

 Though variable in the leaves, and in a lesser degree in the flowers, 

 this is a well-marked species, at once recognized wherever seen in 

 the mountain forests which it inhabits, and of which it at times almost 

 forms a part, as it is a large, much-branched shrub or small tree, 10 

 to 30 feet high. (M. i& B. 232.) 



282. Clermontia parviflora, Gaud.; Gray, 1. c. p. 150. G. 6b- 

 longifoUa, Hook. & Arn. 1. c, non Gaud. A small branching shrub. 

 (M. & B. 296.) 



Brighamia, Gray, nov. gen. 



" Calyx tube oblongo eximie 10-costato, dentibus parvulis. Corolla 

 hypocraterimorpha ; tubo praelongo fere recto antice sinubus 2 profun- 

 dius fisso ; lobis ovato-oblongis aequaliter patentibus consimilibus, nisi 

 2 anticis longiter unguiculatis. Columna staminea coroUiB tubo infra 

 medium (postice altius) adnata; synanthera subinclusa apice recurvo 

 barbata. Ovarium biloculare. Stigma bilobum, nudum. Capsula 

 primum carnosa, loculis demum rimis 2 longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 

 Seraina oblonga ; testa tenuiter Crustacea Iceviuscula : embryo rectus al- 

 bumine oleoso brevior. — Arbuscula Sandwicensis, carnosa, glabra ; caule 

 orgyali simplicissimo folia obovata subintegerrima creberrirae quasi capi- 

 tatim conferta gerente ; pedunculis axillaribus folio brevioribus apice 

 racemoso-paucifloris ; floribus pedicello recto baud resupinatis albis. 



283. "Brighamia insiginis. — Molokai. (W. T. Brigham.) 'Kauai 

 or Niihau.' (Remy, 309'".) — Stem 5 to 18 feet high. Leaves (in 

 the specimens) only 6 or 8 inches long, contracted at the base into a 

 very short petiole, evidently more or less fleshy, and forming a close 

 tuft at the summit of the columnar stem. Peduncles stout and mani- 

 festly fleshy, 3 to 5 inches long ; the thick ascending pedicels half an 

 inch or an inch long : bracts deciduous. Calyx-teeth much shorter 

 than the tube, oblong-linear, slightly accrescent and persistent on the ripe 

 fruit collected by Mr. Brigham, deciduous from that of Remy's speci- 

 men. Corolla showy, white with a tinge of cream-color ; the rather 

 slender tube about 4 inches long, slightly incurved ; the 5 lobes when 

 expanded about an inch long, thickish, valvate in aestivation, with the 

 pointed tips inflexed, in equality of size and position apparently as 

 nearly regular as in Isotoma, but the two anterior lobes separated from 



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