232 COMPOSITAE. [ Hesperomannia. 
corolla, the anthers long linear, united until fertilization, exserted, caudate 
with filiform tails, the connective ending in a free lance- shaped appendage, 
the thin loculi evanescent after fertilization. Style filiform, long exserted, 
ie bidentate with somewhat obtuse or truncate branches, or entire. 
nes linear-oblong, 5-angular, with several faces ribbe appus of 
many pluri-seriate stiff and scabrous capillary bristles wich 6 are twice the 
length of a: achene. — Trees or shrubs wi y hard-grained wood. 
Leaves alternate, penni-nerved, entire. Heads a and few in terminal 
clusters or in the forks of the branches. Corollae brownish- yellow. 
A Hawaiian genus, the only representative of the tribe Mutisieae in Polynesia. The 
large flower-heads with the long tawny pappus are much like those of Stifftia chrysantha. 
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are is anoeteagansed parted by slightly Rinses slits the corolla cannot be called bilabiate. 
In the outer florets the style is generally entire, yet their Gases are well formed. 
aia oblong, narrowed at the base; heads 5—7 in a cluster; achenes 
linear-oblon . H. arborescens. 
Leaves esp with, a rounded base; heads single or 2 or 3 together; 
achen . H. arbuscula. 
1. eopnilonas Gran Ys Pon ne ‘i VIL 554. — A small tree, 
12—20 ft. high, the trunk 5---6 inches thick, with spreading branches. 
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obovate-oblong, 5--6’ (< 1'/2-—2'/2‘, bluntly acuminate, crenato-dentate, 
almost entire, gradually contracting into a petiole of !/,—1/. Heads 2—2"/2' 
high, 5--7 in a terminal cluster or cymose umbel on thick pedicels 
of about 1/2’. Involucre 1—1!/2’ high, quite glabrous, its bracts in 
4—7 rows. Corollae 12—15” long, divided to the middle. Anthers 4--5”. 
Achenes glabrous, 6—7”, linear-oblong, the tawny or reddish pappus 
twice that length. — Bri, vighals, in Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. I, 527, pl. 20 
(the anther inexactly rendered). 
Lanai! on the highest ridge. Mann met with only one tree, but the baicrg! saw 
about eight four years . As innovations greased take rise from the upperm: xils, 
remnants of older inflorescences may seen between two branches and also pian 
B var. Oahuensis. — A tree, 20—30 ft. bach the young branches pale 
with short ashy-gray tomentum. Leaves thin, gray -tomentose underneath, 
broadly ovato- or elliptico- or obovato-oblong, 5—8‘ >< 2!/2:—4', shortly 
acuminate, faintly denticulate, on petioles of 1/2—3‘. Heads in clusters 
of 4—6. Inyol. 1’ long, the lowest bracts tomentose. Corollae pale 
Pp Mature achenes not seen. — 
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2. H. arbuscula, sp. ». — «A weak shrub with long and slender 
branches which extend over the ground or lean for support on neigh: 
boring shrubs.» (Bishop.) Leaves ovate to oyate-oblong or suborbicular, 
4—6' X 21/2—31/2/, sharply and closely dentate, rounded below, on petioles 
of 1—11/2', pale puberulous underneath, quite thin. Heads 2‘ or less in 
