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Vaccinium cereum, Forst., of Tahiti, appears to me specifically 

 distinct from the following, of the Sandwich Islands, which Chamisso 

 and Schlechtendal, and afterwards Sir William Hooker, have combined 

 with it. V. cereum, besides its more urceolate corolla, has shorter and 

 bibracteolate peduncles, acute calyx-lobes, the anthers mucronulate at 

 the base and their tubular horns not much surpassing the dorsal awns. 

 The Sandwich Island Vaccinia have ebracteolate pedicels ; and their 

 very various and diverse forms appear to be reducible to two species, 

 as follows : — 



Vaccinium reticulatum, Smith ( V. cereum, Cham. & Schlecht. 

 and Hook. Ic. PL t. 87), — the Ohelo of the Hawaians, — an ex- 

 tremely polymorphous species. Its anthers are wholly muticous at 

 the base, the corolla cylindraceous when fully developed, and much 

 exceeding the obtuse lobes of the calyx. A small-leaved and lucid 

 form of it is V. Macrceanum of Klotzsch, which differs little from 



Var. DENTATUM ( V. dentatum, Smith), in which the corolla is some- 

 times shorter. 



Var. CALTCiNUM, the V. calycinum, Smith, described as having de- 

 ciduous leaves, appears to be only a thinner-leaved form of V. reticu- 

 latum, growing in the shade of thick forest, and is connected with the 

 ordinary state by various intermediate forms, among which is V. Mey- 

 enianum, Klotzsch. The dorsal awns of the anthers are sometimes 

 very short or obsolete. 



Var. ? LANCEOLATUM, from the tabular summit of Kauai, is quite 

 uncertain, the flowers being unknown ; but it resembles the var. denta- 

 tum, except that the leaves are nearly lanceolate. 



Vaccinium penduliflorum, Gaud, is distinguished, not so much 

 by its longer peduncles drooping in fruit and narrower acutish calyx- 

 lobes, as by the shorter, nearly campanulate corolla, not much exceed- 

 ing the calyx, and a strong cusp at the base of the anther. This last 

 is represented in fig. 4 of Gaudichaud's plate, but is not referred to in 

 the diagnosis, nor noticed by Dunal. Our collection (which has a form 

 of V. reticulatum with equally long and pendulous peduncles) has of 

 this species only the 



Var. BERBERIFOLIUM : foliis obovatis seu obovato-oblongis eximie 

 reticulatis margine dentibus spinuloso-setaceis crebris pulcherrime 

 pectinatis ; pedunculis folia vix excedentibus. — E. Maui, on Mouna 

 Haleakala, and apparently on the mountains of Oahu. Anther bear- 

 ing at its base a cusp or strong mucro, like that represented in Gaudi- 



