220 COMPOSITAE. | Wilkesia. 
Teas and ge oegs es in whorls, the former connate at the base 
fringed, the latter several-heade 1. W. gymnoxiphium. 
Slaves free at oe di, Ne the peduncles alternate, “single- 
headed i 2. W. Grayana. 
1. W. gymnoxiphium, Gray, Proc. Am. Ac. I, 160, and V, 136. — 
Stem or trunk 8—14 ft. high, including the panicle of 2 to 8 ft. 
Leaves not crowded, in whorls of 10 or more, connate at their bases, 
linear-lanceolate, very acute, minutely ma y-lined, fringed with a close 
border of white silky ciliae, otherwise Se eeee and shining, those of 
the stem about 1 ft. long and 4—6” broad, those of the panicle much 
shorter, only 2--1‘ long and almost 1’ broad; the whorls at distances of 
1/2‘ and less on the stem, of 2‘ and more on the panicle. Peduncles 
covered with viscid hairlets, slender, 6‘ or more long, each bearing at 
its end two or three nodding heads on pedicels of 1/2—1‘ supported by 
linear bracts, otherwise naked. Heads globose, 6—8“ ear Invol. resinous, 
4—6", consisting of about 24 connate scales. Dis 120—200, the 
corollae 31/2", pale yellow. Anthers exserted, pale. Style exserted, its 
long reflexed branches dilating above and ending in long subulate appen- 
ages. Achenes hispidulous, the pappus one third their length and con- 
sisting of 10—12 subequal, very acute, corneous paleae. — Mann, 
Enum. no. 230. 
Kauai! id leeward slope of the tabular summit above Waimea, at a height of 3000 
. — —— — at their bases to the height of /2—2”, forming cups, pivinse 
nm the s pes only page internodes but also raipiay each other. The pedun 
of the ag asl iPass g regular whorls, 10 to 6 in each. 
- Grayana, sp. n. — Stem about 3° thick at the base, 5 to 8 ft. 
set when full grown, bearing a dense wn of vyerticillate ensiform 
entire acute leaves, which are either eae or “eee curved and free 
to the base, resino-puberulous and ciliate at the margins near the base 
when young, but glabrate with age, dark green, ‘thick chartaceous, the 
lowest about 1 ft. long and 8—10” broad, with 9 to 13 distinct nerves. 
ene single - ciate stiff angular, furfuraceous, 6‘ long, in the axils 
more remote and irregularly alternate leaves, bearing 3 to 4 distant 
xr along its course, the whole inflorescence forming a large foliaceous 
raceme of 1'/2—2 ft. in length with a thick angular rhachis, the supporting 
leaves equalling the ape in length. Heads globose, 9—10” high, 
1—1'/2' broad. Invol. 6“, viscous -pubescent, made up of about equal 
linear bracts rather near ie aoe Receptacle conical, with to 
300 florets. Corolla orange, 21/2. Anthers not exserted. pe! 
scarcely projecting, with short conical appendages. Achenes glabrous, 
about 4” long, 5-angular, with an oblique pappus of 6 to 9 acute paleae, 
the two or three outer ones of which are longest, about 1/s the len 
of the achene, 
