30 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. {Schiedea. 
An exclusively Hawaiian genus. The rhachis and rays of even the largest panicles 
end in a cymose trichotomy, the lateral branches of the terminal cyme again repeatedly 
Shing arene in the most developed forms. The two last song Sash large flowers and 
short @ _—— seale-like staminodia, lead into the follow nus 
tee small, nicles; sepals narrow; staminodia linear or aiken: stamens 
filiform : Uuscieen, ee mn): 
Leaves tryed 0: 
Panicle large, ie fis cage filiform subhorizontal rays: 
og or bifid: 
Leaves bed obovate-oblons, somewhat obtuse, sub- 
sessile; stem s . S. Kaalae. 
haaa lanceolate or Pea acuminate at both ends; 
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Seeds smooth; flowers ‘larger } i : : ‘ 2. S. diffusa 
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aves ovate or Ova te-oblong ; panicle clammy-pubescent 3. S. pubescens. 
Leaves linear-oblong, clasping with a broad auriculate 
base. 
spe linear: spathulate or cuneate, tapering into. a 
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amplexicaulis. 
peti 5. S. stellarioides, 
Panicle sion, ‘hang ex eedin ng 6 inches, ‘but open, with sub- 
short br hone drones eet entire 
pats ee oblong or ov: ; : 7. 8. Hawaiiensis. 
trow-lanceolate or ane ‘ i S. salicaria 
Panicle contracte and rundnalbenstr as thyrsoid; ‘staminodia 
abou pals : 
Thyrsus rather open, of 3—5 pairs of contracted cymes: 
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eaves narrow-lanceolate : 9, S. ligustrina. 
Leaves Soke or filiform, with axi lary leaf-shoots 10. S. spergulina. 
Thyrsus of 1 or 2 dense we les; filaments not exserted; 
leaves linear Hsin fe 11. S. Remy. 
=a 5—5-nervi 
icle open, with long filiform horizontally spreading rays; 
ig oobi narrow-lanceolate 12. 8. Hooker. 
Panicle open, but shorter, with suberect rays; leaves broad 
elliptico-oblong 13. S. Lydgatei. 
Panicle contra 
Glomerules or pairs of ines 1 or 2; staminodia and stamens 
12 the length of the sepals; leaves obovate-lanceolate 14. S. globosa. 
Glomerules or pairs of cymes generally 2 or 3; stami is 
and s ns as “re as the sepals, or longer; leaves 
linear or lanceolate 15. S. Menziesti. 
Flowers prt = simple or ¢o: mpoun corymbose “eves; epals 
; broad, etenetae: staminodia pais and b filaments 
complanate, enclosed; leaves 3—5- nerved; "(Nothoechiedea, 
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Leaves elliptico-oblong, 3-nerved; cymes 3—9-flowered. ae Le 
Leaves broadly ovate, 5-nerved; cymes many-flowered . ee goa penaniden: 
1, S. Nuttallii, Hook. Ic. Pl. tab. 649, 650. — Suffrutescent, 2— 
long, branching near the Pi the branches straggling, hueen foliose, 
labrous throughout. Leaves chartaceous, ng, 3—4‘ X S/4—1', On 
Rist Of IB", idaule at both ends or rarely antes rounded 
the base, pale, smooth, 1-nerved or costate with veins effaced, the 
ae reflexed. Panicle ample and spreading, glabrous, 1/2—1'/s ft. long, 
the rhachis with 4—6 nodes, the lowest internodes 3—2/ long, the lowest 
