212 COMPOSITAE. [Campylotheca. 
. C. Molokaiensis, sp. n. — Low, diffuse, woody only at the base, the 
ranches crowded at the end of a short stem, 6—12‘ long, prostrate-erect, 
scarcely dividing, often rooting. Leaves ovate or deltoid, 1—1!/2' & XK sa—1', 
on petioles of %/s—11/4', acuminate, serrate, the broad base often sub- 
cordate, pale underneath. Flower-heads single on a terminal naked 
peduncle of 4—8', with sometimes 1 or 2 equally long bracteate peduncles 
alongside of it. Disk 4—5“ in diam. Invol. bracts 8 in a row, the outer 
ones longer than the inner, some or all of them tipped with a large 
f . 8, obovate, entire, 6 long. Disk-fl. 24. Style-branches 
short, little exserted, with conical appendage. Achenes linear, 5‘ long, 
straight, wingless, ciliate at top and aristate with 2 sharp awns, which 
are retrorsely ciliate near the apex. 
N. shore of Molokai! Waikolu 
2. C. pulchella, Hillebr. — «A slender annual (?), tebe sa Leave 
petiolate ternatisect, or the upper sessile ones 3-lobed. Heads small, 2“ 
high, solitary. Ray-fl. about 4, the ligules elliptical, 2- sahae Invol. 
ci as long as the disk, the external bracts (?) tipped with a large 
chenes ore wingless and awnless, cae above.» — Adeno- 
Tepis pulchella, L in Linnaea, VI, 510, tab. — DC. Prod. V, 607. 
Collected by vi ones on Oahu. My herbarium contains two small specimens from 
Molokai which in many respects agree with Lessing’s description; they do not however 
ual p , but from one which has the habit of no The coarsely 
serrate leaves with their petioles measure 1—2’, the terminal leaflet being larger han 
e€ lateral © Peduncle 4’. Ext. invol. bracts 8, linear-lanceolate, 
so obtuse, - all of them sigirenies at the apex. Dis rge n 
Ray-fl. short obovate, less than mature achenes winged 5, the wings 
frin g the two Ping er broad awns, which are smooth otherwise 
TO baie angular, Le it}s ft. long. Leaves 8/4 —14]a! S< 12—8/4', on petioles 
of 7—9”, pinnately cut into 3 to 5 decurrent, obovate or oblong, obtuse, 
crenate segments. Flower-head single on a terminal peduncle of 2'. 
Disk 4—5” in diam. Achenes ciliate, with 2 stiff awns of about 1/3 their 
own length, ohicle:s are armed with pale retrorse barblets. 
Hie tab: Hilo (Remy 287). Invol. — were not noticed, or perhaps overlooked, 
e single defective coulis in hb. 
4. C, dichotoma, sp. n. — Low, aA with woody base, glabrous, 
the short branches dichotomous, with the withered cymes of previous 
growths in their forks. Leaves simple, rather fleshy, ovate to obovate, 
1—l/2‘, shortly acuminate, sharply and appressedly but not closely 
serrate or dentate, except at the ae base, which s uddenly contracts 
into a petiole of about 1/2’. Infl, - or 5- pided.« cyme wi — common 
peduncle of 1—1‘/2‘ and pedicels 1/,—1, with linear bra Heads 
3—4" in diam. Ext. invol. bracts 2“ long, linear- ase “only few 
glandular in my specimens. Ray-fl. obovate, 3“. Achenes 4”, linear; 
