36 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. [ Alsinidendron. 
16. S. viscosa, Mann, Enum. no. 35; Fl. Haw. Islds. p. 18. — Suf- 
fruticose, decumbent and spreading, with branches 2—3 ft. long, the 
internodes 1—2'/2‘, the whole plant, especially the inflorescence, covered 
with a viscous pubescence. Leaves elliptico- oblong, 11/2—2'‘ & 1/s—1Y/2', 
acute, the base contracted into a short petiole, 3-nerved, membranous, the 
upper face glabrate with age. Flowers in cymes of 3— 9, at the ends 
of short lateral branches, with leaf- ike bracts. Pedicels 4—6”. Sepals 
ovate-oblong, 4—6" 2“, much overlapping (1 tie internal and 1 
external in the bud), bluntish, thin, many-nerved. Stam ia short and 
broad, scale-like, iniceukbiaade 1/4 the length of the ie Stamens !/s 
shiriee than the sepals with complanate filaments. Styles 5—7, stigmatose 
all round in the upper half or third, Capsule ovoid, 4”, enclosed by 
the connivent sepals. Seeds numerous, compressed , siiooth (tuberculate 
according to 
Kauai! mountains above Waimea, Halemanu (M. & B. 579, Kn. 79). 
17, S. lychnoides, sp. n. — Habit of the preceding species, 0% larger 
and stouter, visco-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, 11/2—2‘ ao Et /e", 
acuminate or mucronate, rounded at the base or suddenly pa into 
a petiole of 1—2”, 5-nerved, chartaceous, glabrate with age. Flowers 
18—21, in compound cymes with foliaceous bracts, on lateral branches 
of 6—10'. Pedicels 6—7“. Sepals overlapping as before, obovate, 
6”  3—4", thin, many nerved, obtuse or rounded. Binmnisiodia 1/g—1a 
the size of the sepals, almost as broad as high, bi- or tri-cuspid, the 
all round down to the lower third. Capsule 4“, enclosed by the calyx. 
Seeds smooth. 
Kauai! above Waimea (Kn. 89). 
3. ALSINIDENDRON, Mann, char. emend. 
Sepals large, persistent, fleshy at last, free to near the base, 5, unequal, 
imbricate, the 2 largest ones sub- -opposite and external, or oftener by 
reduction 4, and then decussate, viz. , 2 external and 2 internal: Petals 
none. Staminodia broad and short, “thin hyaline, connate in a 10- to 
8-cleft ring or ree with the base of which the stamens are conna 
Stamens 10 or 8, equal, alternating with the lobes of the staminodial 
cup; the filaments complanate, the anthers linear- oblong, affixed above 
the base. Styles 4—7, filiform, stigmatiferous all round in the upper 
clavate half. Capsule ovoid, Lee’, with a free central placenta, splitting 
at maturity into 4— ves. Seeds numerous, orbicular-reniform, com- 
pressed, with a crustaceous testa. Embryo coiled around a scanty albumen, 
the cotyledons elongate. — An erect undershrub, with entire palmately 
