Goodeniaceae. 
Australia, India, a few in New Caledonia and 6 endemic species in the Ha- 
waiian Islands, with one other S. frutescens ( Mill.) Krause, of wide distribution. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves obovate oblong, toothed or serrate. 
Cymes short, crowded, leaves pubescent.............-....e-ee0s S. procera 
Cymes long, many flowered; IGAVES PIADTOUE:..—.. couse oy eae S. Chamissoniana 
Scaevola Chamissoniana Gaud. 
Naupaka or Naupaka kuahiwi. 
(Plate 210.) 
pinsreshier CHAMISSONIANA Gaud. Bot. Voy. ee. Oe 461. t.82;—Hook. et Arn. 
Beech. Voy. (1832) 89; wad. Fl. Suds. Wien. Mus. L. (18386) 170 no. 
1043; —DC, Prodr. VII. (1889) 506;—A, ne y in. ae Am. Acad. VII, (1867) 187;— 
Hbd. Fi. Haw. Isl. (1888) 267 ;-—Del Cas i. FI. Ins sane Pae, VI. base 216;— 
Heller in Minnes. Bot. Stud. Bull. IX. (1897) 913; —Krar se Das Pfizenr. LIV. 4. 
277. (1912) 123.—S, Chamissoniana Gaud. var. v Hbd, Fl. geo Isl, (888) eset _— 
. cili G. Don Gen. Syst. ITI. (1834) 728.—S. mentees Nutt. in Trans. Am 
Phil. Soc. N. S. VIII. (1848) 253.—Tenninckia Chamisson a de iting Gouden 
(1854) 8;—Walp. Ann. II. (1852) 1057.—Lobelia Ohasiissonians O. Ktze, Rev. Gen. 
Fi (1891) 378. 
A shrub or small tree 5 to 6 m high; branches terete glabrous or in the axils of leaves 
sparsely white-villose; leaves chartaceous, obovate or obov ate lanceolate, ss at the 
apex, cuneate at the base, narrowing into a petiole of 6 to 12 mm margin serrate- 
dentate, tte on both sides, 4 to 10 cm long, 2 to 4.5 em wide; flowers in Sanite ari- 
cate cymes, o 15 flowered, as long as the pele or longer; bracts gone sa acute 
2 to 5 ecm Seles ovary seats Fe glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long; calyx 1 to ong, shortly 
5-lobed, sparsely ciliolate; corolla Rite with io posed or pure w ee pe erect tube 
indrieal, 1.5 to 2 em long, glabrous ao Pops y pubes scent inside, lobes 
pati half the length of the a or shorter, winged; mens sare ee length _ the 
, the filiform ie aes deo dilated at the bas a ae small, oblong, sheds 
style slightly protruding from the corolla, pubescent below, glabrous above; indu 
glabrous, the s Peis se m — er and shortly ciliate. fruit ellipsoidal, eae 6 ie 10 
mm long, 4 to 5 mm thick 
This species is one of the most common shrubs or often small trees which one 
is likely to meet everywhere in the lower or middle forest zone. It is in flower 
nearly all the year round and is quite a conspicuous object in the forest on ac- 
count of its white flower, which appears to be only a half a flower, though com- 
plete. It occurs on all the islands of the group from 800 feet elevation up to 
4000 feet and even higher; several varieties have been described. Krause in his 
monograph on the Goodeniaceae of the world distinguishes three varieties of 
this species: (1) var. pubescens (Nutt.) Krause, from Kohala, Oahu, (2) var. 
bracteosa Hbd. from Maui, Hawaii, and Molokai, and (3) var. cylindrocarpa 
(Hbd.) Krause, from Lanai. 
There are many more varieties of this species in the writer’s possession, which 
belong all to shrubs and therefore do not come within the scope of this book. 
Plate 210 shows a branch from the typical S. Chamissoniana, as it occurs in 
the forests of Oahu. 
Here may be recorded another species, the Ohenaupaka of the natives or 
Scaevola glabra H. et A. This latter plant often reaches a height of fifteen 
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