238 Rock: Notes ON HAWAIIAN LOBELIOIDEAE 
prominent midrib and obscure venation, bluntly acute at the apex, 
glabrous below with the exception of the midrib and the entire 
margin, pubescent above, upper leaves gradually reduced to 
foliaceous, broadly ovate bracts; raceme more densely flowered 
than in the typical form, villous, the flowers arranged along the 
upper third of the spike, pedicels and calycine tube villous with 
whitish gray hairs, the calycine lobes green, but ciliate at the 
margin; corolla shorter than in the typical form but broader, 
whitish green, the veins very indistinct, only visible in the buds, 
slightly purplish tinged. 
Kauat: Mt. Waialeale, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, September 
23, 1909, J. F. Rock 5823a (flowering specimens) ; October 21, 1916; 
J. F. Rock & A. S. Hitchcock 12741 (also flowering specimens), 
type. Both specimens are preserved in the herbarium of the 
College of Hawaii. 
A much stouter plant than the typical form of the species, differ- 
ng in the broad, fleshy, oblong leaves, and broad, ovate bracts. The 
whole aspect of the plantis different ;the typical form is glabrous and 
has dark purple, slender, glabrous racemes, while the racemes in the 
variety, which is almost worthy of specific rank, are thick, stout, 
bright green and villousthroughout. The villosity and compactchar- 
acter of the plant are not due to location, for both the typical 
form and the variety grow side by side in the open bog of Mt. 
Waialeale on the island of Kauai, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, in 
company with Compositae, Drosera longifolia L., several species of 
Plantago, Panicum monticola Hook. f., P. isachnoides Munro, P. 
imbricatum Hillbrd. and Oreobolus furcatus H. Mann. 
13. Lobelia Gaudichaudii coccinea var. nov. 
Stem 3-7 dm. long, foliose at the apex, the single spike about 
60 cm. long, leaves narrow, oblong, bluntly acute at the apex, nar- 
rowing at the base but sessile, 15-18 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. 
wide; the raceme open-flowered, glabrous throughout, flowers 
smaller than in the typical form of the species, glabrous, deep car- 
mine red. 
OAHU: summit of Mt. Konahuanui, on the very edge of the 
cliff overlooking Waimanalo, September, 1912, Glen W. Shaw 
12742 (flowering specimens), type; Mt. Lanihuli, September, 1914, 
J. F. Nelson & J. Stone 10003 (flowering and fruiting specimens). 
Both specimens are preserved in the herbarium of the College of 
Hawaii. : 
