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B var. — Plant more erect and less hairy. Heads often several from 
a branch and then smaller, on shorter peduncles and with fewer florets. 
Achenes faintly 1-nerved, particularly at the base of their faces. 
Hawaii! Central Plateau, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea. 
T. Chamissonis, Gray, 1. c. (sub Vittadinia). — Erect, 1—11/2 ft. 
Tea Leaves ee or ‘Dabrats: thin, spathulate, 8—12" * 1—1!/2", 
running out into a slender base, generally with a prominent pair of teeth 
or serratures near oe apex and then 3-nerved, 3-cuspid, or with one or 
more additional smaller teeth lower down, or subentire. Peduncles single- 
headed, several, 7-—8 from the top of a branch, 3—5” long, pubescent, 
fonning a scarcely exserted umbel or corymb. H ne 3“ in diam, Invol. 
scales tka acuminate, 1/2 the height of the disk. Disk-fl. 6—12, pale 
purplish. Ray-fl. 20 to 25, shortly exserted, the ligules seek as long 
as their tubes, white, msiibiiaie revolute. Achenes 1‘, obovate, with faces 
strongly 1-nerved, Pappus white, equalling the disk, 1-serial. — Krigeron 
lepidotus, Less. in Linnaea, VI, 502. — E. pauciflorus, Hook. & Arn. Bot. 
Beech. p. 87 and DC. Prod. V, 84. 
Oahu! Nuuanu, Waianae. 
8 var. lucurians. — Larger, the leaves 1—2‘ >< 3—4", laciniately tri- 
cuspid or serrate. Peduncles 8 to 14, projecting beyond the leaves, 
; ed. Heads smaller, the outermost ray-fl. decreasing 
in size. Achen + lara flattish and often with nerveless faces. 
Lanai! achat 
y var. arbuscula. — eee 2—3 ft. high. Leaves stiffer and narrower, 
‘2 broad, often almost filiform, covered with resinous dots. Heads fewer 
but hates: on shorter peduncles. Disk-fl. 6, purplish. — Gray, 1. e. p. 120. 
Maui, summit of Haleakaia (U. S. E. E.). 
5. T. consanguineum, Gray, 1. c. (Vittadinia). — «Shrubby, much 
branched , glabrate. Leaves linear-spathulate, attenuate at the base, 
rymp. s 
very obtuse, the scarious margins fringed with fine ciliate denticulations. 
Ray-fl. 25 to 30, scarcely exceeding those of the disk, their ligules white, 
linear, as long as the tubes, protruding over the whitish simple uni-serial 
pappus.» 
Hawaii, Waimea, and mountains of Kauai (U.S. E. E.). 
6. arenarium, Gray, I. c. (Vittadinia). — Erect, about 2 ft. high, 
sparsely branching, the wand-like branches herbaceous, hispid and vis- 
cous, foliose also in the older portions. Leaves lanceolate, tapering into 
a plane base, 1—1!/2‘ >< #/4—1/s‘, shortly acuminate, mucronate, entire, 
