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feo mueli confusion lias arisen in the past in connection ^-itli 

 the name //. Arjiottianus that it is perhaps desirable to abandon 

 the use of it altogether. The three Sandwich Islands plants 

 whose history has been given may be distingnished as follows : — 



Flowers white ; involucral bracts reflexed : 



staminal column much exserted ; style- 

 arms sub-erect 



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Leaves broadly ovate, entire ; calyx under 

 2 cm. long ' ... 



eaves usually elliptic or suborbicular, 



II. Waimeae. 



var, Hool^eri, 



crenate; calyx 2-5-3 cm, long ..' var. Helleri 



(=typical Waimeae). 

 Flowers red ; involucral bracts sub-erect ; 



staminal column hardly as long as the 

 petals (when these are extended) ; style- 



B, 



arms spreading 



H. Waimeae, A. A. Heller, in Minnesota Bot. Studies, vol. i, 

 p- 851; Sprague in Bot. Mag. t. 854-7, H. Waimeae, vnr. 

 Helleri, ITochreutiuer in Ann. Conserv. & Jard. Bot, Geneve, 

 vol. iv, p. 132. H, Arnottianus, H. Mann in Proc. Amer, Acad., 

 vol. vii, p. 157; Hillebr. FL Hawaiian IsL, p. 48, partly. 77, 

 Arnnttianus, forma, Sinclair, Indig. Fl. Hawaiian IsL, t. 8. 



^Ha\vaiia>' Islais^ds. Kauai: aboA'e Waimea, 900 m., Heller 

 2785. Oahu, Mann ^- Brigham 530, Hawaii, Mrs. Sinclair. 



H. Waimeae, var Hookeri, Hochreutiner in Ann. Conserv. & 

 Jard, Bot. Geneve, vol, iv, p. 132. 77. Boryanus, Hook & Am. 

 Bot. Beeeliey's Voy., p. 79, excluding Macrae's specimen, not of 

 DC. 77. Arnottiayius, A. Gray, Bot. U.S, Expl. Exped., vol. i, 

 p. 170, partly; Wawra in Flora, 1873, p. 173; Hillebr. Fl. 

 Hawaiian IsL, p. 48, partly. 



Ha^vaiiax Islaxds. Oahu, Lay ^' Collie; Hillehrand 374. 



H. kokio, Hillehr. ex Waicra in Flora, 1873, p. 174; 



Hillebr. FL Hawaiian IsL, p. 48." H. Boryanus, Hook 

 & Arn. Bot. Beechej's Yoj,, p. 79, as to Macrae's speci- 

 men, not of DC. H. Amottianus, A. Gray, Bot. F.S. ExpL 

 Exped., vol. i, p. 176, partly; Hochr, in Ann. Conserv. & Jard. 

 Bot. Geneve, vol. iv, p. 133, vars. Tzoldo and genuimn. H. 

 Arnottianus, forma, Sinclair, Indig. FL Hawaiian IsL t. 9. 

 H^ Remyi, Hillebr. ex Hochr., Lc. 



Hawaiia>* Islands. Oahu, Diell 57. Hawaii, Macrae; Mr^. 

 Sinclair, Also in Kauai and Molokai, according to Hillebrand, 



H, hah Hi, C. N. Forbes in Occas. Papers Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Mus. vol. v, no. 1, p. 4, is closely allied to H. lol'io, 

 from which it differs in the shape of the leaves and the indu- 

 mentum of the calyx (described as tomentose in the Latin descrip- 

 tion, pubescent in the English). According to Mr. Forbes, there 

 appear to be at least two other undescribed varieties or species 



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