246 LOBELIACEAE, | Rollandia. 
3. R. racemosa, Hillebr. — Stem 5—6 ft. high, rough but not prickly. 
Leaves chartaceous, obovate-oblong, 10—14‘ >< 3—4’‘, acuminate, gradually 
narrowing into a distinct smooth petiole of isons 1‘, eroso- faa nee the 
per face sparsely papillose when young, but glabra age 
lower densely covered when young with a dark brown pena which 
at last becomes confined to the venules, including pale areoles. Peduncle 
tomentose, 4—11‘ long when in fruit, distantly bracteate below, loosely 
racemose above; pedicels 6; bracts 4—-6, bracteoles 1/2". yx 
pubescent, the tube 3—4“, the lobes 2—31/2“, eee truncate. Corolla 
as in no. 2. Staminal column adnate only in the lower third or fourth, 
glabrous as well as the anthers, but the upper athens tufted with a 
short pencil. Berry ovoid or obovoid, 8“ long. — Delissea racemosa, Mann, 
Enum. no. 266. — R. Loo blg ag Wawra, in Flora, 1873. 
Oahu! Kalihi and Konahua — Is not unlikely to be the Lobelia psa te! Cham. 
in Linnaea, VIII, 222, Delissea eacbaities Pr., Rollandia ambigua, G. Dor piace 1 
ecimen in ~_ Heth. Berlin is ree ri it an pas a raceme of 5 5 
ould n of t 
in the miserable paearega brought home by “hin is not to be wondered a 
4. R. longiflora, Wawra, in Tico, 1873, p. 95. — Stem smooth, 4—5 
oe Leaves lanceolate, 15—18' X 21'/,—4', acute, gradually narrowing 
into a short petiole of 1/4,—1‘, entire or denticulate, sinuate, particularly 
near the base, even faintly lciMate. seis s on both sides, shining, 
thin chartaceous. Raceme slender, 1—2‘, bracteate from the base, 5—10- 
flowered; pedicels 9“; bracts 2“; esis dentiform or wart-like. Calyx 
glatous cylindrical, 5—6“, its timb tubular, about 2“ long and sinuately 
5-toothed. Corolla dark red, sigmoid, 3— Pobee , gradually widening from 
a slender base to a width of 4”, with a p dorsal groov staminal 
column adherent up to the middle of the otal dark red, _eabrons the 
upper anthers not tufted. Berry pyriform, 5“. — The young plant is 
prickly or muricate and has the leaves thera) lobed or 2 avait e, 
. sanguinea, Hbd., in herb. 
Oahu! western division of the main ‘ae from Waipio to Halemanu, Kaala. Wawra’s 
specimens came from the author’s herbari 
B var. angustifolia. — Leaves Hib -faaiaacaai 6—12/ X 9/s—1', nearly 
entire. 
Oahu! eastern division of the main range, from Kalihi to Niu 
5. R. lanceolata, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 458, tab. 74 (R. — 
— Trunk unarmed, about 6 ft. high. Leaves oblanceolate, 16—24' ~ 
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