32 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. | Schiedea. 
are the stamens. Capsule as long as the sepals. Seeds transversely rugose. 
oS, oe Stage n part. 
East and We ui! Hamakua, Waihee, Kaanapali. 
B var. — eee ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
Molokai! 
~ var. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, thicker and dusky-purple, as 
is the entire panicle. 
u! Mt. Kaala 
4. 8S. Kaalae, ak. in Flora, 1873, p. 175. — Stem short and tortuous, 
3—6' long, woody below, with crowded leaves. Leaves glabrous, spathu- 
late or obovate-oblong, 6—10/ & 11/2.—21/2 4, subsessile, somewhat gen 
shortly acuminate or mucronate, gradually narrowing toward the bas 
pale, thick chartaceous, rather fleshy, distinctly feather-veined, the “aris 
veinlets ending free in the meshes of an areolar network. Panicle 
stramineous when dry, quite loose and open, 1'/2—2 ft. long, with 4—5 
nodes only, the loweat internode 6—10', the lowest rays 9—12", Median 
pedicels 6". Bracts subulate, 2“. Sepals 2“, narrow-lanceolate. Staminodia 
nearly as long, linear from a suborbicular base, bifid. Stamens long 
er Styles 3—4, Capsule not exserted. Seeds transversely rugose. 
b. 
Oahu! Mt. paar Inaptly oe ue te ma W awra seiwe S. ow. a species which he 
does not seem to have known, for n 0 speci uld be more unlike. 
6. S. wile Mann, pars no. 28 ; me Haw. pee p. 16. — Suffruti- 
cose, prostrate, alice ft. long, much branched. Leaves linear or linear- 
spathulate, 1'/2—13/4/ & 1—2”, acuminate or obtuse and mucronate, 
l-nerved, tapering seis av short petiole, dintake peheosent along the 
margins, the hairlets mat near the base. Panicle open and loose, 
6—10° long, the lowest internodes 2‘, the lowest rays 3—5‘. Pedicels 6”, 
puberulous. Bractlets 11/2. Sepals 2", lanceolate acute, puberulous. 
Staminodia little shorter, linear-lanceolate from a broad base, entire. 
Stamens scarcely exserted. Styles 3. Capsule as long as the calyx. Seeds 
few, ha, eat 
uai! mountains of Waimea (M. & B. 595, and Kn. 53). 
Be var. — Leaves spathulate or obovate, 3/s—1‘ x 3—4”, broadly 
rounded and mucronate at the apex, thence suddenly narrowing into a 
slender margined petiole, ciliolate at the base and in. the axils. Sepals 
and staminodia as above. 
Same region (Kn. 52) 
6. S. amplexica aie. Mann, Enum. no. 27; Fl. Haw, Islds. p 
Suffruticose. Leaves lisiear Shing with a harold auriculate and ome 
base, 1-nerved, obtuse, mucronate, 2‘>« 5—6”. Panicle open and diffusely 
spreading, about 1 ft. long, its younger portions and the calyx minutely 
hirsute. Pedicels capillary, 4—8". Sepals 2”, ovate- -lanceolate, with 
