Kadua.} RUBIACEAE, 165 
but areolate and dark as in «. Stipules mucronate. Inflor. short, of 2 
or 38 nodes, the lowest cymes in the axils of rameal petiolate leaves, on 
_, ascending peduncles of 3/4’ or less. mee ine teeth very short. Tube 
_, Of corolla 3—4“, the limb globular in the bud. Anthers exserted. Style 
as long as the tube, even longer, hairy in the lower half, its branches 
sain spathulate, apitre convex outside. 
u! on the ridge west of Nuwanu and in the Waianae Mts. near Pearl River. This 
la to have been Chamisso’s plant. 
= oe bag a, sp.» — An undershrub of 2—3 ft. in length, with 
- habit of K. glomerata, the seimes herbaceous, hollow, compressed, 
distantly placed on a woody prost sth closely aba at the base, 
ending in a long (6—12‘) naked or ria scape. Leaves lanceolate or 
obovate-oblong, very acute, 4—5’ eae the upper ones sessile, the 
lower on broad petioles of about ey chartaceous, the dark veins forming 
cronate. Flowers in a dense cluster which comprises the 2 or 3 approxi- 
mate uppermost nedes, with generally 2 additional smaller clusters at 
the next lower distant node on short peduncles of 2—4”. Brac in 
dentiform. Calycine teeth short. Corolla snow white, salver-shape 
slender tube 10—12”, somewhat widening ps the hie (oaciaduaate > 
narrow lanceolate, 3—4“, neither inflected in the bud nor 00 ghee 
Anthers short, sessile below the throat. aie al as long as the qui 
naked, with 2 or 3 short (1) linear stigmatic lobes. Capsule eine 
5-6“ long, 2-, rarely 3-celled, with exserted vertex, loculicidal the 
apex, finatty septicidal to the base. Seeds minute, angular. 
W. Maui! on the rocky walls of deep —— in Kanapali, Honokawai, Lahaina, 
cage A very handsome plant when in flow 
parvula, Gray, Ll. ¢. p. 317. — ik erect glabrous shrub, 1—2 ft. 
eg the few short woody branches 2-edged and densely foliose to the 
top. Leaves all sessile, or the lower ones shortly stalked, ovate, 1—-1'/2' 
x Te—3/q!, acute, coriaceous, with nerves indistinct, glabrous. Stipul 
mucro laterally compressed. Inflorescence few-flowered, very short and 
Dkéios the often single terminal cyme subsessile, with median pedicels 
of e— 1", or, when there are ier s from the next node, these on ag a nt 
Calycine lobes 
4 pinkish tinge, funnel- -shaped, the tube ge hs the suberect lobes ovate- 
lanceolate or obovate, almost as long as the 
not inflected and margins not inp, ou linear, affixed to 
middle of the tube. Style 1/2 as long as tube, very woolly above the 
base, with clavate seaiiiaie lobes. ae subglobose, 2“ in diam., 
with conical vertex, 2-celled. Seeds angular. — Wawra, l. c. 263. 
Oahu! mountains of Waianae, valley of Makaha. 
