le COMPOSITAE, [Raillardia. 
chartaceous, distinctly 5—3-nerved, with nerves impressed, green when 
dry, glabrate and smooth on both faces. Panicle 4—6‘ long, folioso- 
bracteate, pubescent. Heads 6‘, racemosely arranged on peduncles of 
3—6', Involucre obconical, 3—4", pubescent, of 8—12 connate bracts. 
Receptacle naked. Florets 15--24, Corollae exserted. Achenes glabrate, 
5-ribbed. 
Hawaii! Hualalai (M. & B.) and lava-stream of 1856 on the Plateau (Hbd.). In 
specimens the leaves are laterally curved, similar to the obtuse forms of Acacia won: 
one side conyex, the other straight or concave. 
10. R. arborea, Gray, I. c. — «A small tree, 20 ft. high, with a trunk 
1 ft. in diam., the young branches and inflorescence hirsute with glan- 
dular hair. Leaves close, ternate, rather’ spreading, sessile with a broad 
base, but not clasping, elliptico-oblong, 1'/2—-2/  6—9", obtuse at both 
ends, entire, thick chartaceous, scabrous above, pubescent and viscous 
when young, 5—3-nerved. Panicle 3—4’ long. Inyolucre 41/2", campa- 
nulate, of 12—14 bracts. Receptacle conical, with a few small and thin 
paleae. Florets 22—45; corollae glandular, Achenes steatah 5- sea » 
Ha ! Mauna Kea, 8000—10000 ft., in company with the «Maman » (U.S. ): 
In ry gee! specimen of my collec on only the hair of the Po prancmecst is giandula 
11. R. Menziesii, Gray, 1. c. p. 133. — A shrub or small tree, 6—12 ft. high, 
with stiff and stout assurgent branches, densely foliose throughout, cine- 
reous with a hispid, not glandular pubescence. Leaves ternate, appressed, 
sessile, ovato- or elliptico-oblong, 1—lU/2'  5—9“, shortly acuminate or 
somewhat obtuse, entire or faintly and remotely denticulate, coriaceous, with 
3—5 impressed nerves, glabrate and lucid when full grown, but even then 
of 11—13 loosely sonmete one Ree ptacle convex, aah at 
paleae. Florets 17--25. a Sada) shaped, not exserted. see 
branches short. rites glabrat 
E. Maui! Haleakala, 8000 to 10000 ft. 
12. R. struthioloides, Gray, 1. c. p. 134. — «A shrub, or, at the elevation of 
9500 ft., a tree, 20 ft. high, with the trunk 9 inches in diam., the brane ches 
sae 
Mh 2" xX 4—7 " , acute, broadly sessile Heals aoa rather scp 
when young, ith 3—5 pias aves ull opaque, canescent Wi 
appressed hairs, scabrous on the margin, but not ciliate. Inflor. @ raceme 
or panicle of 4—6‘ in length with Henrvid pedicels. Heads 6”. In- 
volucre 4”, pubescent, of 7—11 bracts, Florets 12—22, the corollae 
almost tubular, not exserted. 
