248 LOBELIACEAE. | Delissea. 
e. — Calyx-lobes as in 8. Corolla ashy-pale, faint purple at the back, 
dark inside, pubescent along the lobes. Anthers almost glabrate, but the 
upper ones ciliate at the top. Leaves lanceolate. 
Ewa, Wahiawa. 
— Calyx-lobes 21/2’, oblong, obtuse, ee or overlapping. Corolla 
pneee broad at the base, a fae out, of the same color in 
Anthers pubescent at the base only and with a few ciliae at ie apex 
of the upper ones. Leaves elongate, narrow (1'/2—2!/2‘ broad) as in 7, 
with which it shares the same habitat. 
Halemanu 
6. R. Humboldtiana, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bon. tab. 76. — Trunk 10—15 ft. 
high, — Leaves broad obovate-oblong, 12—20/ > 3—5‘, narrowing into a 
petiole of 1—3’, more or less tomentose undemeath with olivaceous 
panies crenulate or subentire. Raceme rather thick, 3’ long or more, 
floriferous from the base, with pedicels of 6—8”, the ae Sell b ha 
. bractlets a Calyx pubescent, shila the oblong truncate lobes 
2“, half t o lesigth of the nee orate or imbricate. Corolla falci- 
pied from a Ge ie broad base, 2—2!/2‘, sad purple, with reddish streaks, 
pubescent at least on the hs Beit al column adnate up to the 
middle, Seles but the upper anthers ciliate at the apex. Berry 0 
ovoid, 5. Seeds smooth. — Mann, Enum. no. 254. — R. Kaalae, Wawra. 
pn Giethoas 8 plate without text it cannot be made out whether 
- the leaves were glabrous or tomentose. Mann’s specimens seem to have 
been glabrate. 
Oahu! slopes of Kaala, and Moanalua. Distinguished from the last species chiefly by 
the large size of its trunk, but we have to admit that in this respect our knowledge of 
several of the cag Ses of R. lanceolata is defective. The plants would seem to 
flowering at an early age, and the size of flowering ene which fall under the eye 
of the sediouice may vary much in one and the same 
5. DELISSEA, Gaud. 
Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong, its lobes dentiform or subulate. Corolla 
more or less curved, tubular, widening from a narrow base, shortly bila- 
ing beyond the middle, the termination 
of the dorsal and often. also of the lateral re ee indicated in the bud by 
e, 
Seeds dull white, the thin testa fukly wrinkled in transverse wavy lines. 
— Unarmed, glabrous, often subherbaceous shrubs, the stems branching 
or simple, more:or less fleshy. Leaves entire or laciniate, succulent when 
fresh, flaccid and transparent when dry, bright green, glossy. Flow 
