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c. p. 700. (M. «& B. 85 ; Remy, 427.) Var. p. laxifolia, Gray, 1. c. 

 Var. y. niRTELLA, Gray, 1. c. (M. & B. 613.) Var. S. longibrac- 

 TEATA ; bracteis ovato-subulatis floribus inferioribus 2 - 3-plo longiori- 

 bus : ctet. /3. — On wet rocks in Waioli valley, Kauai. (M. & B. 612.) 



306. Plantago pachyphylla, Gray, 1. c. p. 54. Var. a. Mavi- 

 ENSis, Gray, 1. c. (M. & B. 428.) Var. /3. Hawaiensis. Gray, 1. c. 

 (Remy, 429.) Var. y. Kavaiensis, Gray, 1. c. (M. & B. 439.) 



306\t Plantago major, Linn. (M. & B.) 



Plumbag-inacecB. 



307. Plumbago Zeylanica, Linn. (M. & B. 226; Remy, 227.) 

 The natives use the acrid juice of this, as of SisyrincJiium acre, for tat- 



toomg. 



Gesneriacece. 



308. Cyrtandra cordifolia, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 446, 

 t. 56; Gray, in Proceed. Amer. Acad. 5, p. 350; Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 91. (M. & B. 63.) 



309. Cyrtandra platyphylla. Gray, 1. c. p. 350. 



310. Cyrtandra Pickeringii, Gray, 1. c. p. 350. 



311. Cyrtandra triflora, Gaud. 1. c. t. 52; Hook. & Am. 1. c. 

 p. 91 ; Gray, 1. c. p. 351. Var. Gaudichaudii, arguta, «fe lysio- 

 sepala. Gray, 1. c. 



312. Cyrtandra grandiflora. Gaud. 1. c. t. 55; Hook. & Arn. 

 1. c. p. 91 ; Gray, 1. c. p. 351. The peduncle is one- or sometimes two- 

 flowered ; the flowers subtended by two large and foliaceous, somewhat 

 connivent bracts, which are more or less distinctly 3-nerved from the 

 base, and slightly reticulate- veiny, the nerves and veins with a rusty 

 pubescence like that of the leaves. The bracts at once distinctly char- 

 acterize the species. 



313. Cyrtandra cenobarba (sp. no v.) : humilis, decumbens, sub- 

 carnosa ; caule petiolisque crassis pilis rigidulis atro-rufis reflexis cre- 

 berrime barbatis ; foliis ovatis vel subcordatis vix acutis denticulatis ad 

 venas prajsertim rufo-hirsutis supra glabresccntibus ; pedunculis 1-2- 

 floris petiolum suba^quantibus ; calyce oblongo 5-fido barbato, lobis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis foliaceis corolla pollicari glaberrima cum 

 limbo amplo explanato paullo brevioribus. — Wahiawa falls, and in 

 "Waioli Valley, Kauai. — Stems low and spreading, only one or two 

 feet high, somewhat succulent. Leaves thickish, 2|^ to 3|^ inches long, 

 on very stout petioles (half an inch to 2 inches longjj which, like the 



