208 COMPOSITAE. [ Lipochaeta. 
r. — Leaves linear- oblong or spathulate, rather fleshy, coriaceou 
when dry, Bi eI canescent, quite obtuse and entire. Peduncles 3, 
2 or 1, at the of a branch. Achenes with interrupted wings, the top 
surrounded ei a idan coronula of equal stiff triangular scalelets, the 
incurved puberulous awns or teeth of the pappus early deciduous, mostly 
wanting in the mature fruit of the radial flowers. — A low divaricately 
branching and spreading shrub, the leaves in i ay specimens only 1‘ long. 
— L. Lahainae, Wawra, in Flora, 1873, p. 
Maui! Lahaina and Maalaea bay, on rocks near the sea. 
6. L. integrifolia, Gray, I. c. p. 130. — Low prostrate, canescent, the 
branches not over 1 ft. long, with a woody base. Leaves linear to spathu- 
late, 1/,—1‘ long, obtuse, entire, thick, veinless, silky- bie on both 
faces. Flower- cheats patent at the ends of short branches, 2—3” broad, 
on naked peduncles of 1— Invol. bracts shorter than es ik, obtuse 
or rounded. Paleae stiff, ciated: obtuse. Ligules very short, 2—2'/2“, 
tridentate. Achenes stout obconical, pflale at the apex, their angles 
cerate or dentate; awns very short, dhislets, — Woe ke ise 
Nutt. in Transact. Am. Phil. Soc. VII, 451. — Walp. 
In sandy soil near the seashore. Kauai; Oahu! Puloa, Kaena; ur Maalaea, 
Waihee. < 
8 var. — Suberect, scarcely canescent, the leaves 2—3“ broad, spathu- 
late, faintly 3-nerved 
Oahu! Kailua. 
. L. hastata, sp. — A weak straggling undershrub, scabrous but 
sabre, the slender ranches often twisting or leaning for support on 
aring at their ends 1 or 3 slender single-headed peduncles 
vey 3—5’‘. Leaves thin chartaceous, scabrous, oblong, 1—2/  */4+—*/4 : 
obtuse, mucronate or emarginate, sessile and clasping, with a hae or 
contracted base, entire or finely denticulate, most of them bluntly notched 
or lobed above the lower third. Heads 3—4“ in diam. Invol. bracts 
puberulous, ovate or oblong, acuminate, equalling the disk. Paleae flat, 
mucronate. Ligules 4—5“ long, 3-dentate. Achenes with lacerate angles 
and short chaffy apical hairlets, the awns dila ted at the base but not 
connate, sharp pointed, about half the length of the achene. 
anai! A form from W. Maui! is stouter, rather hispid, with coarser leaves of 2--3' 
8. L. lobata, DC. 1. c. — Suffrutescent, rather erect, about 2 ft. 
high, scabro-hispid. Leaves pale, chartaceous, scabro-hispid on ae 
faces, ovate in outline, 1'/2—3’  1—2', palmately 3—5-lobed, the lobes 
acute and serrate or incised, the middle one longest, the base truncate 
but suddenly decurrent into a margined petiole of 1/2—1'/2‘; nerves Pr 
minent. Inflor. a compound cyme as in no. 2. Heads about 3”, om 
