194 COMPOSITAE. (Lagenophora. 
. R. Mauiensis, sp. n. — A much sais shrub, about 3 ft. high, 
. canescent branches decumbent, and densely foliose near the ends. 
eaves chartaceous, lanceolate, 3'/2—5‘ >< 1/2—11/2‘, on petioles of 1/2/ or 
less, acute at both ends, coarsely serrate with sharp incurved peas 
canescent underneath with a thick grayish-white tomentum. Inftor. 
densely flowered, soon bracteate panicle, 2—5 ‘ long, the ultimate sociale 
1'/2—2", the bractlets linear to subulate. Heads small ovoid, 2—2'/2, Invol. 
bracts r icuain or obovate-oblong, somewhat obtuse, denticulate near the 
apex. 8 not much exceeding the involucre, those of the ray gene- 
rally 14, of the disk 8. Corollas dark yellow, the outer lip of the ray- 
florets and the lobes of the disk-florets only 1/s the length of their tubes, 
always revolute. Achenes °/1“, glabrous. Bristles of pappus shorter than 
the achene. 
Maui! in gulches back of Lahaina and on a ridge of Wailuku valley. 
2. R, Kauaiensis, sp. n. — An erect canescent shrub, with branches 
distantly foliose. Leaves ovate to elliptico-oblong, 11/2--2/ >< 8%/4—1‘, on 
petioles of '{4—1/2/, somewhat acute, sharply denticulate with inflected carti- 
florets 30—40. Corollas pale yellow, about 1/2 as long as in the 
species; _— of the disk urceolate, with lobes as long as their tube, and 
erect. Achenes pubescent. Bristles of pappus soft, 2 of them longer 
than the ce the others much shorter 
Kauai! Waimea. Collected by Mr. Knu udsen. 
5. LAGENOPHORA, Cassin. 
Heads heterogamous, radiate, the ray-florets in one or several rows, 
female, fertile, the disk-florets hermaphrodite, often sterile. Inyol. bracts 
in — 2 rows, imbricate, of almost equal length, with scarious margins. 
ceptacle convex, naked. Corollas of ray ligulate and spreading oF 
rea st tubular and short, those of the disk tubular, with ampliate limb, 
5-toothed. Style-branches of disk-florets narrow complanate, with trian- 
gular or lanceolate appendage. Achenes compressed, with thick margins 
and nerveless faces, obovate-oblong, suddenly narrowed into a short beak- 
Pappus none. — Small herbs. ves radical or on short stems, entire 
or toothed. Heads single on a naked or sparsely foliose scape. Ra, 
never yellow. 
About 12 species, chiefly belonging to op —— one a with one of their 
eal Asia, and o 
pecies extending into to tropil species se 'y peculiar to an ntaretic 
y perce the Viti and Hawaiian Islands. 
