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The writer is indebted to ilr. O. 11. Swe/.cy and Mr. P. H. Timberlake. both 

 eutoiiiologists, for fruiting specimens, one of wliieh possessed a few Howerlnids at 

 the apex. 



The writer was justified, as stated before, in estalilishing this new species; 

 his viewpoint has been verified by the material collected by Swezey and Timber- 

 lake. They reported a number of specimens growing on the cliffs overhanging 

 Waimanalo, one specimen of which was in flower (said to be of a pale blue) but 

 grew at an inaccessible place and could not be collected. The species is closely 

 related to L. hypoleuca, biit differs in the densely dirty gray pubescent racemes, 

 the long numerous bracts, the densely-packed racemes, and gray woolly, obovate 

 to turbinate capsules; the leaves are of an entirely different texture, as can be 

 seen by the illustration. 



Lobelia yuccoides liillel^r. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 2i7 . 1888. 



(Plates 20, 65, 66.) 

 Trunk simple erect with a thin woody zone and compact medulla, 1.5-2 m high, 

 2.5-3.25 cm thick, closely covered with spires of rhomboidal leaf-sears and bear- 

 ing a crown of leaves at the end, and passing at once into a thick terminal raceme 

 of 6-10 dm in length, which is closely covered with two hundred to four hundred 

 flowers; leaves linear, 24-37.5 cm long, 7-15 mm wide, acuminate or acute at both 

 ends, with revolute margins, entire or minutely denticulate, whitish gray be- 

 neath, dark green above, cliartaceous, with almost horizontal nerves ; pedicels 8-12 

 mm, with setiform bracts and bractlets; calyx whitish pubescent as are the pedi- 

 cels, the obconical striate tube 5 mm, the subulate lobes of the same length or 

 shorter (somewhat longer teste llillebrand) ; corolla puberulous, bluish, very 

 slender, suberect, 36-40 mm long, the upper lip spreading, the lower deeply 

 trifid; filaments puberulous, a small patch <if pubescence at the base of each 

 anther, only the two lower anthers penicillate; eapsule ovoid or almost cylin- 

 drical, 10-12 mm high, semi-inferior, with a conical apex, loculieidal in the free 

 portion and at last down to the base. 



KAUAI: Waimea, elevation 2000-3000 feet, Knudsen in Herbarium Berlin 

 and Gray Herbarium ; — on the edge of dry canyons below Kaholuamano, eleva- 

 tion 3000 feet, in company with Wilkcsia gtjiniioxipliiuiii, Coreopsis cosiiioides, 

 etc., flowering-fruiting, September 1909, Rock no. 5779 in lierbariimi College of 

 Hawaii ; — Waimea, March 1910, IT. Paurie no. 553 in herbarium Leveille and 

 herbarium College of Hawaii ; — same locality October 1916, Rock no. 12836 in 

 herb. Coll. Hawaii ; — Kaholuamano, fruiting, October 21, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock 

 no. 15432 in TT. S. National Herbarium. 



OAHU: Ridge of Waiauae, mountains above Lihue, Hillebrand, anno 1869, 

 in Gray Herl)arium. 



A tall and handsome true Lohclia well named yuccoides. for the plant truly 

 resembles a small yucca in habit. It inhabits the dry ridges and canyons of the 

 Waianae JMountains of Oahu and the leeward side of Kauai. It differs from 

 L. hypoleuca in the solid wood.y stem, long simgle racemes and uari'nw linear 

 leaves. The racemes are, however, hollow. 



Lobelia yuccoides Hillebr. is exceedingly close to Lulxlin turiifolia A. <!ray, 

 but differs from it in the tall .stem, long raceme, and the very slender much longer 

 flowers, which are a grayish blue. There is an excellent flowering specimen in 

 the Gray Herbarium, collected by V. Knudsen. The leaves are less canescent 

 beneath than in L. iicriifolia Gray. 



