Schiedea.] CARYOPHYLLACEAE, 35 
elliptico-oblong, broadest at the middle, almost rhomboidal, 1—11/2‘>& 6—8", 
shortly acuminate, suddenly contracting into a a margined petiole of 2—3”, 
fleshy-membranous, glabrous, dull, faintly 3-nerved, the lowest lateral 
veins converging witht the costa at the apex. Panicle open and continuous, 
dividin 
at the middle. Bractlets ovate, acute, 1‘. Pedicels 4”, Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, 3-nerved, 21/2”, otiate: Pa SSE about as Ber linear from 
ndish ifid. Stamens little exserted. Styles 3, seldom 4, 
Capsule as fied as sepals. Seeds transversely rugose. 
Molokai! Kalawao, near the seashore. Excepting the leaves, like S. salicaria, 
14. 8. globosa, Mann, Enum. no. 34; Fl. Haw. Islds. p. 18. — Low 
herbaceous, hoary-pubescent in the upper portions of the stem and in- 
florescence, otherwise glabrous, the simple branches rising from the base, 
1/2—1 ft. high, with 4—5 pairs of leaves. Lower leaves obovate-lanceolate 
from a narrow sessile base, rather fleshy, 4‘ 1‘, or less, 3—5-nerved, 
the upper ones reduced to subulate foliaceous 3-nerved bracts of 9“ X 11/2“. 
Flowers in a terminal compact head of 1‘ in diameter, sometimes with 
a second pair of globose cymes at the next lower node. Sepals ovate- 
obtuse, 11/2“, nerved below the middle, shorter than the 4-valved capsule. 
Stamninodia 1/2 or 1/s as long, entire, obtuse. Stamens as short. Seeds 
few, larger than in the other ppseteds pr te. (Descr. according to 
Mann). 
Oahu, near Koko Head (M. & B. 580, Remy 552). 
15. S. Menziesii, Hook. Ic. Pl. fol. 649, adnot. — Straggling, 1--3 ft. 
long, woody at Th base, the branches hispid, densely foliose below, soon 
passing into a rather naked few-leaved scape. Leaves linear, 1'/2—2’x1—2", 
acuminate at both ends, or subsessile with clasping base, membranous, 
prominently 3-(5- Ny Panicle pubescent, contracted, ee con- 
sisting of 2 or 3, rarely 1 or 4 glomerules of less than 1‘ in 
of pairs of globose cymes at distances of ie ‘, the eer gustan 
made up of 2—3 nodes, Pedicels 1—2“. Sepals pubescent, 21/2“, lanceolate, 
bluntish, faintly 1-nerved. Staminodia as long or longer, linear, bifid, 
dilated at the base. Stamens exserted. Styles 3. Capsule as long as 
the sha ets transversely rugose. 
Lana ! (leaves pubescent underneath). In the reg serub of the fore- 
hills. i Beacon: cymes are neither so large nor so dense as in S. Remyi. 
2 var. spergulacea. — Leaves filiform, less than 1” broad, but 2 
3-nerved, and pubescent, often with axillary shoots. Cymes as i 
Lanai! (M. & B. 342). 
Cymes more open, with pedicels of 2—3, and few-flowered. 
W. Maui! Differs from S. spergulina only in the 3-nerved leaves. 
