Kadua.| RUBIACEAE. 161 
a trace of hairiness. In both ie shanna abortive ovaries are frequent and the length of 
the stigmatic lobes is variable 
. K. laxiflora, Mann, Enum. no. 182. — A decumbent straggling shrub, 
4— : ft. long, the hollow branches stout, quadrangular, even 4-w inged, 
glabrous, the longest internode 2—4‘. Lower leaves shortly petiolate, 
oblong or lanceolate, 5—8‘ 1 1/2—3', acute, contracted below, membran- 
ous to chartaceous, pale and glabrous ANS the upper on reduc- 
ed floral leaves sessile, cordate, the latter from 1—1/«’, Stipules annular, 
with a long subulate point or mucro. Panfele ample and open, 8—12‘ 
long, with 5-+7 pairs of subascending branches, the lowest itenahes 
often again ramifying with foliaceous bracts; the flowers in open tricho- 
tomous or secund compound cymes; the lateral pedicels 2—3”, with 
auaiae bractlets of 1’. Calyx-lobes linear, longer than their tube, often 
twice as long. Corolla greenish, glabrous, the tube 4—5”, the short 
lobes inflected in the bud. Anthers sessile — the fauces. Style 
sparsely ciliate or glabrous, almost as long as e tube, the lobes 1/3 of 
its length, complanate, coadunate. Capsule sei 11/2—2” in dia- 
meter, occasionally 3-celled, the vertex slightly raised. Seeds triquetrous 
or angular, small. 
W. Maui! Wailuku and Waithee; Molokai! Kalauwau; Lanai! The majority of 
Ovaries fail to reach maturity. Wawra’s plant from or Waianae Mts., Oahu, belongs 
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to var. 6 of the following species. Nat. name: «Pilo» 
6. K. cordata, Cham. d Schl., 1. c. IV, 160. — A much branching and 
spreading glaucous shrub, 4—6 ft. long, ie! peti terete branches faintly 
lined, their longest internode 1! je—8‘. erecta oa he shortly stalked, 
ovate or ovate-oblong 3—5/ & 1!/2—2!/s chartaceous, minu- 
tely papillose underneath; the floral hives eeautl, baie rad aacaaee: 
21/2—"/s'. Stipules annular, long-mucronate. Panicle pyramidal, 4—5’ long, 
with 4—5 horizontal pairs of branches, the lowest 2—3‘ long; the flowers 
in clusters at their ends, hidden between broadly cordate or ovate folia- 
ceous bractlets which exceed the calycine lobes; the ultimate pedicels 
‘l2—l'/2". Calycine lobes lanceolate or spathulate, or 3 times the 
length of their tube and 1/2 as long as the tube of the glaucous glabrous 
corolla; the tities ampliate, 6—7“, the lobes 4/3 as long, with tips inflected 
in the bud. Anthers below the throat. Style ?/s the icsieth of the tube, 
hairy and thickened below, split to the middle into 2 linear or spathulate 
lobes. Capsule subglobose, 21/2’ in diameter, lineate, with slightly convex 
Vertex. Seeds angular, often compressed. — Hook. & Arn.l.c. — Gray, 
Le — Wiegmannia glauca, Meyen, Reise II, 139. 
Oahu! on both mountain ranges; Kauai! 
® var. lava. — Panicle large and open, 8—10‘ long, with 6 nodes, 
the lowest branches gp long, with 1 or 2 pairs of divaricate branchlets, 
each bearing compound open oo with broad foliaceous ee the 
cpap Flora of the Haw: Islands. 
