Lipochaeta.} COMPOSITAE. 207 
% var. — Leaves ovate, acute, sharply serrate, darker green and thinner, 
not scabrous, petiolate. nélot and flower-heads as in 8 of no, 1, the 
involucral bracts herbaceous, narrow acute. 
Kauai! (Kn., and M. & B, 542). — Might as well pass for a petiolate variety of no. 1. 
3. L. succulenta, DC. 1. c. — Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech p. 87. — 
«Herbaceous, fleshy, glabrous. Leaves glossy, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
mucronulate, eeeniulate: serrate above the middle y HS base attenuate into 
a short petiole. Inflor. a solitary peduncle. Cite invol. bracts orbicular. 
Achenes compressed or trigonal, with one angle dace or produced into 
a denticulate wing and crowned by 2 or 3 short awns.» — Gray, 1. ¢. 
— Verbesina succulenta, Hook. & Arn 
Niihau and Kauai, near the shore. Collected only by Lay & Collie and by Remy. 
. L. subcordata, Gray, 1. c. p. 130. — Herbaceous, erect, 1—-2 ft. high, 
loosely foliose, pubescent. Leaves ovato-cordate or deltoid, 1'/2.—2’ < 
1—1'/2‘, on immarginate petioles of 1/2—1‘, acute, eae serrate, pa 
nerved, membranous, with a short and soft grayish pubesce 
& compound cyme, the two lateral rays or adie elongate, ie ad 
once or twiee dichotomous, the median often accrete to one of them. 
Heads small, the disk 2—3". Outer invol. bracts patent, see bluntish, 
equalling the disk. Paleae flat, obtuse. Ligules 3“ long. Achenes not 
winged, but dentate or warty at the angles, with a paleaceous coronula 
at the apex; the awns slender, of nearly the length of the achene, rarely 
more than one, often Seah 
Hawaii! S. Kon una, A yery distinct species. Maui! back of Lahaina 
i deltoid, Saver fad pas 
5. L. lavarum, DC. I. c. — Suffrutescent, erect, 1—1'/2 ft. high, 
re stiff strigoso-canescent branches. Leaves elliptico-lanceolate, 1 to 
3—6, including a petiole of 1—4”, ye at both ends, ponies, 
length, 1-3’. Outer invol. bracts. stiff Pate canescent, obtuse, 
shorter than the conical disk. Paleae hooded and keeled. Ligules 9 to 
12, tridentate, 6—10” long. Achenes thick ai at broadly winged, 
the wings expanding upward in broad processes which, together with the 
paleaceous hair, form an outer coronula round the long and stout awns. 
— Gray, 1. c. — Verbesina lavarum, Gaud, in Bot. Freye. p. 464. 
Maui! Lanai! Hawaii, on dry rocky slopes of the leeward sides. 
vh + btuse, 
it var. — Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2—3“ broad, so 
, thin membranous, with feeble nerves, green on the upper oe 
ey fuinity pruinose on the lower face. 
Maui, near Lahaina (E. Bishop). 
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