164 RUBIACEAE, | Kadua. 
11. K. foliosa, sp. ». — Decumbent, straggling, the subherbaceous 
branches slender, terete, faintly lined, nodose, purplish, evenly foliose 
with rameal shoots from each axilla, or sometimes the upper leaf-inter- 
node elongate to 2—4‘. Leaves mostly reflexed, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 
small, 1—2‘ XX 1/2—5/s‘, all rameal ones distinctly stalked, dark-green, 
membranous, puberulous underneath; the floral leaves sessile, broa pe: 
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length, with 2 to 4 nodes, the lowest branches 1—2! '2‘, rather ys 
flowered. Cymes open, the ultimate bractlets linear, 1—2”, shorter than 
their pedicels. Calycine lobes narrow lanceolate, 1’, rather longer than 
their tube. Corolla glaucous and glabrous, its tube 2—3”, the lobes 
inflected. Style as long as the tube, hairy below, with ies dilated. 
Capsule 11/2” in diameter, 2- celled, with aebesie.were vertex. Seeds tri- 
quetrous. 
E. Maui! at heights of about 4000 ft. 
@ var.? — Branches pale. Leaves not exceeding 6—9” in length and 
3—4" in width. A short depauperate inflorescence, sometimes only a 
simple cyme at the end of nearly every axillary shoot. Calycine lobes 
anceolate acute, 1'/2—2“, much longer than their tube. 
Oahu! Waianae Mts. Perhaps a distinct species. yes a few fragments on hand. 
12. K. Menziesiana, Cham. & Schl., 1. c. IV, —. Erect, 3—4 ft, 
high, Sparse branching, the solid woody pi terete branches end- 
ing in an elongate compressed herbaceous scape, the longest internode 
—4'. Leaves rather distant, elliptico-oblo 2—3' X ety , the 
very short and clavate. meaieal obconical, with convex vertex, , 2-38", 
rather woody. Seeds angular. Gray, l. c. p. 318. — XK. Smith 
Hook. & Arn. — Hedyotis spubenna: Gaud. Bot. Freye. 147, tab. 
H. coriacea, Smith, — Oldenlandia conostyla, DC. Prod. IV, 428. py 
dull brown, when dry. 
wo aa arious regions (near the coast, U. 8. E.E.). Nat. name ; «<Kioele» according 
® var. — Branches short, woody and leafy to near the top, the longest 
internode 1’ or less. Leaves smaller, 1! X< X 4/2‘ or less, soon glabrate, 
