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This species was first collected by GaudieliMud. llillebrand misinterpreted 

 Asa Graj-'s species of L. ncriifnUu and referred this species to the former, draw- 

 ing up a description of his own and ignoring Asa Gray's description altogether. 



Lobelia IlUhhraiidii is a small species in comparison to the magnificent, tall 

 Lobelias of the high mountains of these islands. 



A fragmentary specimen of llillebrand's Lobelia neriifoIia^= L. Hillehrandii 

 Rock ex coll. Hillebrand in the Gray Ilei-barium possesses a single leaf glabrous 

 on both sides; only a small secondary raceme is attached to the sheet. The speci- 

 men is labeled as the "typical form of L. nerii folia," which is, however, not 

 the case. 



Lobelia Hillehrandii paniculata Rock 



Lobelia lu-riifolia llilklir. fi \ar. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 238. 1888. 



Trailing as in the species; leaves elongate-linear, serrulate, acute at the apex, 

 long attenuate at the base snbsessile or on a short margined petiole, green under- 

 neath, glabrous; inflorescence paniculate, five to six secondary racemes besides 

 the terminal one (teste Ilillclirand). 



MOLOKAI : ;\l;nmahui trailing among Lijcopodinm fasfi(/i<if iiiii, llillebrand: 

 — Kamolo. lUOO feet, June 1910, V. Faurie in herbarium Leveille, and U. Faurie 

 no. 557 in herbarimn College of Hawaii; — Waialeia ridge, August 9, 1918, Mrs. 

 L. ]\I. Dunbar no. 13124 in Herbarium Rock. 



This variety comes very close to the species and differs from it mainly in the 

 green leaves, and according to llillebrand in the paniculate iufiorescenee. 

 U. Faurie 's specimen is without flower or fruit. 



Lobelia Hillehrandii monostachya Rock v. n. 



Lobelia iwriifolia Hillebr. y var. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 238, 1888. 



Leaves narrow linear 4-8 mm wide, green underneath, membranaceous, crenu- 

 late; a single raceme 12,5-15 cm long; capsule 6 mm high, the free portion more 

 than half its length, 



OAHlT: Xiu Yalle>-, on a dry exposed slope, Hillebrand, in herbarium 

 Bishop Museum. 



This variety is not known to the writer save from Ilillebrand's specimen. 

 Hillebrand states in his Flora that the stems are only one foot long, and exhibit 

 the growth of several seasons; the I'emnants of old racemes stand at th(^ base of 

 the latest growth. 



Lobelia tortuosa Heller in ]\Iinnes. Rot. Stud. Vol. IX:912, pi. 57, 1897, 



(IMate lis.) 

 ''Woody; stems clustered from a thick mass of roots, the older ones almost 

 2,5 cm in diameter at the base, gnarled and twisted, the young flowering and 

 leaf-bearing ends ascending and sparingly branching, closely studded with leaf- 

 scars; leaves narrowly lanceolate-oblong, slightly cyathiform, acuminate at the 

 apex, tapering at the base into a short winged petiole, 15 cm long, 18 mm wide, 

 light green and somewhat jtubescent above, pale and densely soft pulx'scent be- 

 neath, with prominent midveins; flowering branch angled; pedicels 12 mm long, 

 horizontal for half their length, then twisted and curved upwards; bracts subu- 

 late tomentose ; calyx shallow cup-shaped, truncate, shortly puliiscent, the lobes 

 linear, almost as long as the tube; corolla 3.6 em long, garnet colored, somewhat 

 contracted near the middle, i)ubescent, the lobes revolute; stamens glabrous, or 



