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c. p. 700. (M. & B. 85 ; Remy, 427.) Var. /3. laxifolia, Gray, 1. c. 

 Var. y. hirtella, Gray, 1. c. (M. & B. 613.) Var. 8. longibrac- 

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

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



306. Plantago pachtphylla, 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 a .f Plantago major, Linn. (M. & B.) 



Plumb aginacece. 



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

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

 tooing. 



Gesneriacece. 



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

 t. 56 ; Gray, in Proceed. Araer. 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. & Arn. 1. c. 

 p. 91 ; Gray, 1. c. p. 351. Var. Gaudichaudii, arguta, & 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. nov.) : humilis, decumbens, sub- 

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

 berrime barbatis ; foliis ovatis vel subcordatis vix acutis denticulatis ad 

 venas pra:sertim rufo-hirsutis supra glabrescentibus ; pedunculis 1 - 2- 

 floris petiolum subasquantibus ; 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, 21 to 3 h inches Ion"- 

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



