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4 inches long, and an inch wide or less, 3 — 5 nerved, the upper dimin- 

 ished into small subulate bract-like 3-nerved leaves, only three fourths 

 of an inch long, and a line and a half wide. The upright stem bear- 

 ing a compact globose thyrsus of an inch in diameter (rarely with two 

 lateral ones), composed of numerous many-flowered short cymules. 

 Sepals ovate, obtuse, nerved below the middle, a line and a half long, 

 shorter than the ovate-lanceolate capsule. Staminodia very short, 

 blunt, entire, about the length of the stamens. Seeds few, large for 

 the section, and tuberculate-roughened. (M. & B. 580 ; Remy, 552.) 

 35. Schiedea viscosa (H. Mann, 1. c. p. 311) : decumbens, suffru- 

 ticosa, glanduloso-pubescens ; ramis adsurgentibus foliosis apice laxe 

 2- 6-floribus ; foliis breviter oblongis utrinque acutissimis petiolatis 

 trinervatis demum glabratis ; sepalis ovatis acuminatis plurinerviis 

 capsulam 7-valvem superantibus ; filamentis calyce brevioribus stamino- 

 dia late ovata obtusa 3-plo superantibus, iis staminodiorum oppositis 

 latioribus ; seminibus plurimis tuberculato-rugulosis. — At three thou- 

 sand feet elevation, on the mountains of Waimea, Kauai. — This species 

 differs so entirely in its aspect from the rest of the genus, in its almost 

 trailing manner of growth, and in its peculiarly nerved leaves and 

 large flowers (nearly half an inch long, forming a comparatively simple 

 cyme), as to form quite a distinct section. Plant sufFruticose, decum- 

 bent and spreading with branches 2 or 3 feet long, sending up suberect 

 flowering stems 8 to 12 inches high. Whole plant covered with a 

 glandular pubescence, which is viscous, especially on the peduncles and 

 pedicels. Leaves 14- If inches long, 4-5 lines wide, evenly taper- 

 ing at each end to a sharp point, below into a margined petiole 2 lines 

 long, becoming glabrate on the upper surface with age, nerved with 

 three well-marked veins running from the base to the apex. The 

 peduncled terminal cymes, composed of 2 - 6 flowers on pedicels about 

 6 lines long, arising from the axils of small (6 lines long and 14 line 

 wide) floral leaves. The pubescent calyx 5-6 lines long, of five sub- 

 petaloid ovate-acuminate many-nerved sepals, which enclose and surpass 

 in length the ovate-lanceolate 7-valved capsule. Staminodia widely 

 ovate, obtuse, small in proportion to the size of the flower, a line long 

 and nearly as wide at the base. Stamens 10; those opposite the sepals 

 inserted with the staminodia, the filaments dilated subulate ; those 

 alternate narrowly subulate and a little sliorter. Styles 7, short at 

 first and stigmatose all round, but becoming longer with age. Seeds 

 borne on a central placenta, very numerous, tuberculate-roughened 

 with short obtuse points. (M. & B. 579.) 



