Compositae. 
a silky canescent pubescence which is not glandular. The leaves are lanceolate 
arute, leathery in texture, and concave when young. The flowers are yellow. 
It is found lower down in company with Argyroxiphium sandwicense, or Silver- 
sword, Silene, ete. 
Raillardia Menziesii Gray 
Naenae 
(Plates 213, 214.) 
RAILLARDIA MENZIESII Gray Proc. Am. Acad. V. (1862) 133;—Mann Proce. Am. 
Acad, VII. eatey 176;—Wawra in Flora Pes, 79;—Hbd. Fl. Haw, Isl. (1888) 
228;—Hoffm. in Engl. et Prantl Pfizfam. IV, 5. (1889) 248;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. 
Tis Mae, Pas. VI. (1890) 214, 
shrub or small tree, vr lagamg? rg and stout, or at lower elevation profusely branch- 
ing, densely a cinereo a rufous hispid not glandular pubescence; leaves 
ternate or ite, sessile, nalliptisal ieee g, or lanceolate, acuminate, entire, or faintly 
and remotely Seatiewints, coriaceous, 3 to 5 nerved, pepe ate when full grown, but retain- 
ing a fringe of stiff scabrous ciliae among the margins; heads = : m “a it s, few in a 
“el ra 
foliose raceme or panicle of 5 em or more, on pedicels of involv 
obeonical, or oblong, florets 2 to 25, but usually only 2 to 10, sae hs hacen saat a 
exserted; achenes glabrous or slightly hispid, ribbed. 
The typical Raillardia Menziesii Gray, (no. 8621 and 8546, in the Herbarium 
of the College of Hawaii) is a shrub with stiff stout branches and thick, fleshy 
leathery, ternate leaves, and occurs on and near the summit of Mt. Haleakala at 
an elevation of from 7000-10000 feet. At 6000 feet elevation, and in gulches 
at 7000 feet, above Ukulele, on the same mountain, there are quite a number of 
trees some of them 20 feet high and pictured on plate 214; the leaves are thinner, 
opposite, and approach more Raillardia linearis Gaud. In order to ascertain the 
identity of the tree, the writer sent several specimens of the species in question 
to the Gray Herbarium for comparison. In the absence of Prof. M. L. Fernald, 
Mr. E. W. Sinnott kindly compared the material, of which he writes as follows: 
‘“Of R. Menziesii we have but two sheets, one of them the type. Your speci- 
mens no. 8621 and 8546 (the latter from the summit of Mt. Haleakala with 
ternate leaves) are obviously typical R. Menziesii upon comparison. The other 
two, no. 8573 and 8590, (the latter a specimen from the tree figured on plate no. 
214) are probably referable to the same species, but seem to approach R. linearis 
Gaud. These two species are placed next each other by Dr. Gray, in his review 
of the genus in 1862.”’ 
The writer collected the typical R. linearis on the lava fields of Auahi, Kahi- 
kinui, southern slopes of Mt. Haleakala where it is a shrub 3 feet high at 2000 
feet elevation. At present it will be advisable to retain the tree in question 
under R. Menziesii rather than create a new species, until the vast Hawaiian 
composite material is thoroughly worked up. and monographed. 
HESPEROMANNIA A. Gray. 
s homogamous, all florets hermaphrodite and equa al. Involuere turbinate-cam- 
panulate, the bracts imbricate, in many rows, dry, thin, chartaceous to cor riaceous, the 
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