174 RUBIACEAE. [ Bobea. 
. timonioides, Hillebr. — A small tree with the ultimate branches 
slender and straggling, pubescent and ciliate on the deep cicatrices of 
the fallen stipules. Leaves pale, ovate to ovate- eh santeee sometimes 
faleate, 3—5' X 1—2', on petioles of 4—6“, pointedly acuminate, 
chartaceous, glabrous or slightly puberulous on the nerves underneath. 
Stipules triangular, acute, pubescent, 1!/2—2’. Cymes many, tomen 
tose, 3—7-flowered, the common peduncle 4—6”, the lateral flowers 
on pedicels of 1—2”. Bractlets minute, calyculate. Calyx and corolla 
the middle of the tube, elongate, included or the tips exserted. Disk 
conical, hairy. Style thick, pubescent, about !/2 the length of the corolla, 
deeply bifid into 2 pointed branches. Ovary 2- a the single seed sus- 
pecan ye from a short and broad funis. — No matured fruit on the spe 
men Obbea timonioides, Hook. f. Icon. nae tab. 1070, and Gen. 
iad ne 102. Chomelia? sp. Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 330 
aii! S$. Kona and Kawaihae iuka. Collected only by the 
H do uthor. short s 
with ou branches, on which no stiematic papillae are visible; eentiants belongs to 
sterile flow 
4. B. Sandwicensis, Hillebr. — A tall much branched shrub or small 
tree, ee slender branches puberulous at their ends. Stipules triangular, 
ute, : eaves ovate, l'/2—3' & 1—2', on petioles of 3— 
acuminate, chartaceous, pale, tomentulose underneath when young, but 
quite glabrous and shining above when old. Flowers 3—-7 in a con- 
tracted cyme, the lateral ones sessile or on short pedicels of t/2—1/, the 
common peduncle 5—6“, tomentose, as are the minute clasping bractlets. 
Calyx silky-tomentose, tHe tube 2“, somewhat produced beyond the ovary, 
r e 
raised hairy disk, phic thick, bitid to the middle or further, tomentose, 
exserted or quite short, '/s—1/4 the length of the corollar tube. D: 
globose, 21/2“ in ie pubescent when young, with a small disk, 
a thin sarcocarp enclosing 2 bony pyrenae. Cotyledons very minute, at 
the end of a straight oblong radicle. — Chomelia Sandwiecensis, Gray, 
lee p. 38, Guettardella Sandwicensis, Mann, Enum. no, 177. 
! ! n slopes. 
The aestivation of the corolla is imbricate, but not always so as seen by Hooker, 
viz., one pair of lobes external and one internal. I have as often d one of the 
lobes pair external and its mate internal, while the lobes of the decussating 
pair were external with one and a Ryan bg other ce a nt which 
probably occurs oceasionally also in Dimorphism is 
r species genus. 
indicated by larger flowers with the cei sites the length oe the tube and bifid to the 
