162 RUBIACEAE. | Kadua. 
lateral bPigg 2—3", the median 1/,—1. Upper leaves broad cordate 
and sessile. — K. cordicta: var. +, Wawra, 1. c. 262 
Hi ite ee of Kauai! (Wawra, and Kn.) 
_~ var. secundiflora. — Panicle open, but short, with only 2 or 3 pairs 
of branches, which divide at their ends into 2 long secundiflorous forks. 
Bractlets as before. Calyx-lobes broad ovate. Sere turbinate, with 
flat vertex, sometimes 3-celled. Leaves as in «, but variable in size 
and ictal sometimes thin and large, over 3 Ini in side plants 
small and stiff chartaceous. 
Oahu! Mt. Kaala (Makaleha); W. Maui! 
8 var. — Lower leaves obovate or lanceolate, rather distant, 6—10‘ X 
2—4', on petioles of 3’. Floral leaves and bracts ovate-lanceolate to lan- 
ceolate, not cordate. Panicle quite open, with 3 or 4 pairs of branches, 
the lowest 2‘ before forking into regular open trichotomous, rarely secund, 
cymes. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 2—3'’. Bracts Aes nentoee to lanceo- 
late, shorter than their AER branchlets, the ultimate ones not ex- 
ceeding the calyx. — var. 8, Wawra, also his « eis Kauai (panicula 
conferta) 
ahu! Niu, Waianae; Kauai, Pohakupili (Wawra). 
K. Remyi, sp. A low undershrub, 2--3 ft. high, with few 
teacaed: these very oe ee! bec faseoonil long virgate, terete, with faint 
lines, distantly foliose even below. Leaves all sessile and ovato-cordate, 
acute, rarely the lowest rounded at the base and shortly stalked, 1—2’ 
X 1—1'/2', stiff chartaceous, dark-green, pubescent underneath along the 
prominent nerves; the floral leaves broad cordate, #/s—1/4‘ long. Bases 
mucronate, pubescent. Panicle rath Pa open, 4—6‘ long, with 3 or 4 
pairs of patent branches, the lowest again divaricately branckine with 
foliose eR the flowers in regular open trichotomous cymes with sub- 
s which are shorter than their pedicels. Calyx pubescent, the 
linear or sgl lobes scarcely longer than their tubes, 2—3‘’ with the 
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woolly below, with spathulate branches. Capsule subglobose, 2” in dia 
meter, with the conical vertex much ickonted. almost semisuperous, gene- 
rally 3-celled and shen. loculicidal to near the base, besides also splitting 
sepa eee in K. cordata. 
On the hi het Og of : ha geen in > Hamakua, E. Maui! The specimens be 
od beatae’ lovaiity, od ed by Mr. Lydgate, are very slender, the branches scarcely *? 
subscandent, aang much peat ot contracted panicles. One specimen with ovate: 
paris stem-leaves makes a silank 
8. K. Knudsenii, sp. ». — Branches slender, bilineate, the longest in- 
ternode 21/2‘. Stipules triangular. Upper leaves 3‘ < 1%/4/, on petioles 
of 2", broad oblong, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, chartaceous, 
