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1. C. ernodeoides, Gray, in Proc. Am. Acad. IV, 49. — A low 
prostrate shrub, not rising above 2 ft. from the ground, with long and 
stiff trailing branches which send up short densely foliose branchlets at 
every node, and with erect branches which fork copiously and are densely 
covered below the leaves with eT rings, sparsely hispid in the 
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youngest page otherwise glabro Leaves appressed, sessile, linear- 
lanceolate, 3-6 >< 1/2—1!/2", ee rigid, I-nerved, dark-green, shining 
as if Riad Stipules 1/2“ high, annular, a apinalete, ciliate. ale fl. 
unknown. Fem. fl. solitary and aon at the end of a ramule, hidden 
tween ass leaves. Calyx tubular, 4-fid, 11/2“ long, the acute teeth 
shorter than the tube. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2!/:—3 long, shortly 4-fid, 
with the lobes or teeth erect. Styles much exserted, 8—10“, pubescent. 
Drupe ovoid, black, fleshy, 4-5“, crowned by the short calycine teeth. 
— Wawra in Flora, 187 325. 
‘High mountains of Hawaii, E. and W. Maui! from 5000 to 7000 ft., where it covers 
the ang An n abundance on the bare lava, The wild mountte n-geese (Bernicla Sandw.) 
feed upon the berries, which are called by the natives «Kukai neenee», droppings of geese 
2. C. aR n. — Prostrate, rising about 3—4 ft. from the 
ground, with much the habit of os preceding species, the stout decumbent 
branches quadrangular, the short divaricate or ascending branchlets densely 
foliose, covered with stipules below and more or less pubescent. Leaves 
obovate or spathulate, 9—12‘’ X 5—6”, penni-nerved, bluntly acuminate 
or rounded, the base contracting into a margined petiole, thick coriaceous, 
shining, with nerves impressed on the upper face. Stipules coriaceous, 
broad triangular, 1— —l'/2" high, ciliate at the upper border. Flowers 
axillary, sessile on very short and thick axillary spurs, single and terminal 
when the spur is short, or several when it is longer, and thus sometimes 
giving the appearance of a cluster or fascicle. ‘Fem. fl. Calyx 1“, urceolate, 
its limb produced and denticulate, constricted at the base, as long as the 
tube. Corolla 2“, deeply 5—6-parted, with lobes aries Styles 3“ long. 
pe yellow or reddish, ovoid, 3—4”, tipp the short calycine 
limb. — C. Men nziesit, var. xy. Gray, 1. c. — wai l. c. p. 326, no. 1906 
and probably wees no. 2312. 
Hawaii, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea; Maui! Haleakala, 6000—9000 ft. 
8 var. Leaves nea see RID Stipules rounded, bordered with 
a fringe of short and coarse hairle 
Maui! top of Eeka 
¥ var. Leaves elliptive or obovately-oblong, somewhat acute, 5—6", 
even the distinct petiole. Stipules apiculate, pubescent. C. Menz. 
var. y. Wawra, 1. c. no. 2171. 
Kauai! lebelati of Lehua makanui (U. 8. E. E. and Mr. Knudsen), Waialeale (Wawra). 
3. C. Menziesii, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 49, var. 2. wee 
shrub, 4—8 ft., with angular, ascending, loosely ‘sls puberulous branches. 
