646 



Rock: A new Hawaiian Scaevola 



green 



petioles 6-i 3 mm. long, mucronate, entire, somewhat fleshy ; 

 peduncle single-flowered, 4-6 mm, long, entire, slightly pubescent, 

 with two oblanceolate, foliaceous bracts below the calyx 6-18 mm. 

 long by 2 mm. broad; calyx 4 mm., glabrous, with short, blunt- 

 ish teeth of unequal size; corolla pubescent, 5-lobed, yellowish 



with reddish brown streaks; tube 18 mm."^ long, erect, 

 corolla-lobes linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, scarcely margined, 

 16 mm. X 3 mm.; stamens somewhat longer than the tube ; style 

 incurved, pubescent throughout, little shorter than the corolla, 

 indusium glabrous, ciliate ; drupe glabrous, crowned by the calyx- 

 teeth, 5-6 mm,, two-celled, putamen black, crustaceous. 



The type is no. ^804. (in the herbarium of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry), collected in the woods on the middle ridge 

 of Niu Valley, Oahu, at an elevation of 1200 feet (August 22^ 

 1909). The species Is named in honor of Mr, O. H. Swezey of 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, who discovered 

 the plant and called my attention to it. 



Hawahan Board of Agriculture^ 

 Honolulu, Hawaii. 



