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faintly puberulous underneath. Lowest floral leaf cordate, sessile, 1‘, the 
uppermost very small, not over 1’’ long. Panicle pyramidal, ample 
open, 8‘, long, with 6 nodes, the lowest branches again ramifying divari- 
cately, ith simple or compound cymes at their ends, the lateral flowers 
on pedicels of 1—1!/2; the ultimate bractlets linear-spathulate to denti- 
that Leith with tips ‘fnslaeesa ms the bud. Anthers sagittate, sessile 
below the throat. Style 1/2 as long as the tube, with linear lobes, hairy 
at the bas 
Kauai! Paice 87). 
9. K. Waimeae, Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 264. — An arborescent shrub 
with a distinct trunk and drooping, sparingly foliose branches, these 
terete, with 6—8 faint lines, their longest internode 1— 1/2‘. Leaves 
glabrous, stiff chartaceous, equally green and shining on both faces, with 
sharply marked areoles; the lower oblong-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, 
2—21/2/ long, the upper and floral leaves sessile, broadly cordate, sharply 
acuminate, gradually decreasing to a length of 1/2’. Panicle glabrous, 
pyramidal, with rounded top, 2—3‘ long, with 3—4 pairs of branches, 
i flowers on 
tube fee long, the lobes 3”. Style 1/3 the reiigttt of the tube, with short 
linear lobes, hairy up to the division. Capsule subglobose, 1'/2—2” in 
diameter, with a convex vertex. 
Kauai! woods of Halemanu (Wawra, and Kn. 31). 
10. K. glaucifolia, Gray, 1. c. p. 318. — A smail, erect, glabrous shrab, 
the short slender branches woody and densely foliose throughout, bili- 
2to 4 short, closely pat arent pairs, ascending, forming a cory 
panicle not over 2‘ g. mes pruinose, forking in a regular manner, 
the middle florets siecdille: Bractlets subulate, 1/2“. Calyx-lobes sub- 
ulate, longer than their tube, 1“. Corolla pale yellow, cigital its tube 
in some specimens 4“, in others 7—9” long, the lobes 1/2” and 3”, with 
inflected tips. Style hairy, in the larger flowers * fe the length of the 
tube, with short linear lobes, in the smaller flowers nearly the length 
f the 
the 
globose, 11/2—2” in diameter, 2- oak with a flat vertex. Seeds r 
or compressed. — Wawra, l. ¢. p. 
Kauai! woods of Halemanu. Leaves we a red border according to Wawra. 
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