Lipochaeta.} COMPOSITAE. 209 
pedicels of 1/2—1‘. Invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as the 
disk. Sirstan 4—6‘‘long. Paleae cuneate, shortly acuminate. Achenes with 
narrow eroded wings running out into upward processes, the apex hispid- 
chaffy, the awns short and broad, connate with their bases. — Verbesina 
lobata, Gaud. in Bot. Freye. p. 464, an Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 87. — 
L. australis, var. x, Gray, l. ec. — Lipotriche sgsitag Less. in Linnaea, VI, 
510. —- Includes also Friveeiles hastulata, ise. 
Eastern end of Oahu! and western end of Molokai! in dry rocky places. 
8 var. heterophylla. — Leaves more deeply, almost to the base, 3—5 
parted, with linear lobes, the median much the longest, all dilating toward 
the end, aise incised and dentate. Peduncles generally 3 at the 
end of a branch. — L. heterophylla, Gray, 1. ¢. 
Molokai! Kamalo; Maui! (a large leaved form with long virgate branches). 
» Remyi, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 131. — «Herbaceous, much branching, 
diteading, hirsute with grayish hair. Leaves ut ee petiolate, oblong, 
obtuse, often distantly toothed or almost lobed, upper ones alternate. 
Wows: heads small, 2—3” long, spans, shortly pedunculate. 
Bracts of involucre pile 0 obtuse. Ligules 5—7, short obovate. Ray- 
achenes tuberculate along the angles or icles winged, pubescent 
at t os top, those of the disk empty. Pappus obsolete.» 
u (Remy). Not by me, but to it I must refer, notwithstanding some 
dilerebanes in the siete, the following. 
var. — Leaves thin membranous, pale, hispid, ovate or deltoid in 
outline, 9—15' & 6—12', palmately cut into 3 to 5 sinuate or incised lobes 
which dilate toward their ends, the middle one longest, on wingless 
petioles of 6—10. Inflor. of 3 short hispid peduncles of 6” or less, 
but often the 2 lateral ones elongate into foliose floriferous branches. Heads 
small, 1'/,—2“ in diam. Invol. bracts few, lanceolate or spathulate, i 
the outer ones patent. Paleae obovate, with recurved apex or 0. 
Ligules few, obovate, short. Achenes wingless, slightly hairy at el apex 
the pappus reduced to a single slender bristle or wanting altogether 
Dia dichotomously branching, scabro-hispid herb with slender 
branches 
Northern slope of Kaala, Oahu! As to division of leaves almost like var. heterophylla 
cohen the Pacsonas aed species, but a much more delicate plant. M. & B. 533 is from the 
{ var. ? — Leaves 2’ long and broad, pedately 5-parted to the base, 
the segments cut again to the winged rhachis into narrow cuneate or ob- 
long and bi- to tri-sected lobules. 
main range of Oahu! quite 
igh rogram specimen collected on a ridge 
herbaceous d almost glabrous, the slender phate virgate, Die ft. long without dividing, 
of 3—4’. 
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{It Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
