226 COMPOSITAE. [Raillardia. 
3. R. laxiflora, DC. | — Suffruticose, erect, l1/2.—2 ft. high, the 
puberulous nay openly foliose up to the inflorescence, Leaves as 
in the first form abra, but plane and trea except the upper 
reduced ones, wilds are eee Panicle or mb less ample than 
before, its slender branches spreading, little aividing Nena oe or 
racemose, with heads inclined, the pedicels 4—6 tn vol. bracts 5—6, 
urplish. Florets 7 —13, of a deeper yellow than in no. 2. — cay, I. & 
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Hawaii! Kilauea. 
4. R. ciliolata, DC. 1. c. — An erect shrub, 3—4 ft. high, with 
numerous stiff branches, hispidulous or pubescent, densely foliose up to 
e inflorescence. Leaves as in no, 3, about 1‘ long, all ternate, or the 
uppermost opposite, with scabro-ciliate, remotely denticulate margins and 
varnished, spreading or erect and in the sterile branches appressed. 
Inflor. a folioso-bracteate, erect or inclined raceme of 1!/2—3‘ in length, 
or paniculate with the lowest branches a viding; the heads obconical, 
BS a lu 
‘, drooping on hispid pedicels of 4— Involucre 4“, greenish or 
purple, pubescent, of 8—9 connate fia Florets 7—14, the corollae 
deep yellow, exserted. Achenes subglabrate. — Gray, 1. c. 
Hawaii! at heights of 4000 to 6000 ft.; abundant on the Central Plateau and in Waimea. 
It varies with the leaves flat and spreading, even reflexed (var. laxt- 
folia, Gray), and leaves short imbricate, involute, almost acerose, channelled 
above, the racemes depauperate, sometimes only bearing a single head: 
B var. juniperoides, Gray. 
1 var. trinervia. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 1‘ > 4’, indistinctly 3-nerved 
at the base, scabrous. Infl. an erect panicle, 3/ long, with several branches 
dividing, and erect pedicels of 3“. Invol. bracts 9—10. Florets 15—17. 
_ R. Menziesii, pro parte Gray? 
Same localities; a “taller and stiffer shrub. 
5. R. Molokaiensis, sp. n. — A spreading shrub, 2—4 ft. high, with 
pubescent or hispid stiff snot branches, loosely but evenly foliose up 
3—4 ak teeth on hs eA margins. Inflor. an open foliose 
panicle, 4—8‘ hi with ascending branches, the lowest rather long 
and foliose, floriferous at Poe ends. Heads numerous, very narro 
5—6” long, on pedicels of 2—3”. Involucre 3—4", of 5—7 loosely 
connate bracts, pubescent at the top. Florets 5—7. Corollae slender, 
not exserted beyond the aie ~~ yellow. Achenes hispid. 
Molokai! Maunahui; Lanai! — ofthe Molo kai specimens the leaves have 
the lateral neres only faintly pons ie panicle is also mo pen and corymboid, 
thus making an approach to the var. Ieiophylla of R. sca 
