Lobelia.} LOBELIACEAE. 237 
wing in company with Wilkesia Grayana. It is resinous in all parts and has a very 
thick milksap. The racemes, bearing from 80 to 100 owers, make a showy secticadey 
After the maturation of the fruit the stem dies off, as is also the porch oe oe next 
following species, beh pro ge becomes replaced by offshoots from nea The 
Harvard herbarium contains an undescribed Lobelia from the Loo Choo islands, satackaa 
by Mr. Ch. Wright, which gnats the present species greatly 
. L. yuccoides, sp. n. — Trunk simple, erect, with a thin woody zone 
a compact medulla, 4—6 ft. high, 1—11/2‘ thick, closely covered with 
spires of rhomboidal leaf-scars and bearing a crown of leaves at the en nd, 
thence passing at once into a thick terminal raceme of 2—3 ft. in length 
which is closely covered with 200—400 flowers. Leaves linear, 12—15/ 
2—6", acute at both ends, with revolute entire margins, whitish and 
puberulous underneath, chartaceous, with almost horizontal nerves. Pe- 
dicels 4—6, with setiform bracts and bractlets. Calyx whitish, the 
obeonieal striate b 2”, the subulate lobes somewhat longer, 
er 
upper lip spreading, the lower eri trifid. Filaments puberulous, a 
small patch of pubescence at the base of each anther; only the 2 lower 
eaters penicillate. Capsule ovoid or almost cylindrical, 5—6” high, 
semi-inferior, with a conical apex, loculicidal in the free portion and at 
last down to the base 
rte Mane of Waianae, mountains Tr Lihue; Kauai! Waimea (Kn.); at elevations 
of 2000—3000 ft. 
3. L. macrostachys, Hook. d Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 88. — A shrub, 
5—6 ft. high, the erect woody stem 1—11/2‘ thick, dividing at the Dy 
candelabra-like into 5—9 horizontal branches, each 1'j2—3 ft. long and 
terminating in a many-flowered raceme, the leaves rather sbroply falling 
off to bracts. Leaves glabrous, Aen tant lanceolate, 10—12‘  3/1—1’, 
acuminate, gradually narrowing into a margined petiole, faintly crenate in 
its upper portion, with a small gland under each crenature. ceme 
about 1 ft. long, the pedicels pega 9 long, bibracteolate below the 
middle, the bracts as long a e icels. Calyx glabrous, its tube 
globose, about 3”, the 1 wy sie Pe of nearly the same length. 
Corolla poretnae tale rose or pink, slender, about 2‘ long and 3” wide, 
suberect before expansion, the 2 upper lobes spreading, the lower lip 
at the base of each anther; only the 2 lower anthers penicillate. Stig- 
matic hairs in a ringlet. Capsule coriaceous, subglobose, 3—4“ ibs 6", 
with prominent lines and a broad depressed umbonate vertex, inferior 
throughout, indehiscent or opening by small pores at the vertex, with 
permanent calyx-lobes. Seeds minute, ovoid, not margined. ud. 
Bot. Voy. Bon., tab, 46. — Gray, 1. c. — The seeds would seem to become 
free only after the maceration of the calycine tube, which then presents 
