Loganiaceae. 
which has much narrower, lanceolate and longer petioled leaves, with less closer 
internodes, is perhaps but another variety of L. fagraeoidea, Their inflor- 
escences are contracted and pauciflorous, and the divisions of their corollas are 
linear.”’ 
In the writer’s opinion the plant is quite distinct from Gaudichaud’s L. 
fagraeoidea. 
The species Labordia are certainly very badly confused, earlier authors, as 
Mann, giving only three or four line descriptions which may be applied to sev- 
eral variable species, have later been enlarged upon by other authors simply 
taking for granted that their specimens are referable to either the one or the 
other, increased the confusion rather than clearing matters up. Until type- 
material of all the previous authors has been examined and compared, a satis- 
factory treatise on this diffieult genus cannot be undertaken. 
L. Molokaiana occurs on Molokai principally, where it was collected by the 
writer at the pali of Wailua in the dense rain forest, at an elevation of 3000 
feet. The specimens agree exactly with Hillebrand’s description of L. lopho- 
carpa, which is a synonym of the former (flowering and fruiting no. 7044, April 
15, 1910). Hillebrand enumerates two varieties, plur? ifora and phyllocalyx 
which may be distinet species. 
Labordia membranacea Mann. 
Kamakahala. 
(Plate 164.) 
LABORDIA MEMBRANACEA Mann Proce, Am, Acad. VII. (1867) 197—Wawra in 
MBRA A in l 
Flora (1872) 516;—Hbd. Fl. Haw. i, (1888) 291;—Solereder in Engl. et Prant 
Pfizfam, IV. 2 (1892) 32;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pacif, VII. (1892) 287. 
Branches thick, fleshy, pubescent si short dark brown hair, terete, or oe 
angled; leaves broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, (not Bind glee when fresh) rat nr 
u pale underneath, dar en and shining or somewhat dull above, petioles 
cies essil 
in the axis of the 5 ap oeraink Toatate with two linear bracts at the base; peduncles ts 
fleshy, Sich cag —— olate, — ole, linear subulate; calyx divided nearly to a 
base int Sb ae — sc ts = 5 em long, hirsute with blackish hairlets as 1s the 
ibe, ate; a 
throat of the bith hetwéen the sinuses of the corolla-lobes, slightly exserted; ovary two- 
celled, oblong-conical, se em high, style short a = 2 pg stigma large, 
mm long, 2.5 mm thick, ehektly notched or grooved at the apex. Capsu 
large 40 mm long, 18 mm broad, conical-oblong, the dren not ridged at t 
Mann describes a small tree from the mountains behind ae under La- 
bordia membranacea, though very briefly. The writer found numerous trees 
which will have to be referred to Mann’s species. Like all Labordiae it is Se 
v 
what variable. It is however easily distinguished, by the large sue! ea 
. T1p- 
and exceedingly large capsules. The writer has enlarged upon Mann’ gone 
tion. The flowers of this species are hermaphrodite. It occurs in t oe a 
rain forests of the main range of Oahu, especially between Manoa an ‘ 
Olympus trail, where it is a small tree 10 to 18 feet in height. 
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