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occasionally with a few scattered hairs; lower anthers penieillate only; style with 

 a pubescent ring at the base of the stigma." 



KAUAI : On perpendicular cliffs along the Hanapepe river, flowering, June 

 24-2fi, 1895, A. A. Heller no. 24-13 in herbarium Bislioj) ^luseum; — Gray Her- 

 barium, and herbarium Bronx Park, Xew York. 



Lobelia tortuosa is an e.\cellent species and remarkable for its branching stem 

 which is quite stout, and the garnet-colored flowers which are urceolate in shape. 

 In the other branching Hawaiian Lolielias, the stem branches usually at the ape-x 

 into several flowering racemes, or at the very base from the rootstock as in 

 L. Hillebrandii. 



Heller states that the thick knotted mass of roots protrude from crevices of 

 the rocks, and from them spring the first declined and twisted, finally ascending, 

 sparingly branched stems. It is probably closely related to Lobelia Rcmyi Rock. 



Tlie description is quoted almost entirely from Heller; only the measurements 

 have been clianged into the metric system, and a few snperfluoTLs phrases have 

 been omitted. 



Lobelia Remyi Rock sp. n. 



(Plate (i9.) 



Leaves linear lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, thick ehar- 

 taceons, 12-1 K cm long, 14-26 mm wide, on petioles 5-8 mm long, glabrous above, 

 grayish tomentose or woolly beneath ; racemes short 12-15 cm long ; pedicels 12-14 

 mm long ; ovarian portion of calyx broad cup-shaped about 5 mm high, the teetli 

 triangular acute to acuminate (anthers glalirous) ; capsule wliitish. the conical 

 vertex higher tlian the lower portion. 



OAHU: J. Remy no. 298 type in lierl)ari(nu iluseum Paris. 



This species, whicli has not been re-collected, is described from a specimen, 

 collected by Jules Remy on Oaliu, in the herbarium in Paris. It is at once dis- 

 tinguished from the other Hawaiian Lobelias in the compact short raceme and 

 the small grayish woolly leaves. It comes evidently close to Lobelia tortuosa 

 Heller, with which it has the tomentose leaves in conunou. The sjiecimen pos- 

 sesses old flowers, and is alread\' in the fruiting stase. 



