Delissea.} LOBELIACEAE. 249 
in axillary racemes with nee deciduous bracts and naked pedicels, 
nae white or greenish white. 
This petit genus, thus restricted to only 3 of its former constituents, to whic 
several new ones have been added, ee a natural group well defined by the white 
wrinkled seeds, "ihe white corolla with 1 or 3 protuberances, and the succulent leaves. 
e Delissea of Gaudichaud and later tna di m Cyanea od in the comparative 
shortness lycine lobes, a character utterly unreliable i r Lobeliads. Most 
of its members have her tore referred to Cyanea, and a few to Cuswound and Rollandia. 
Macranthae. Flowers over 14/2‘ long, curved, white 
Leaves broadly cordate or rekeacouiee 1. D. subcordata. 
Leaves lanceolate or spathulate . ‘ 3. D. sinuata. 
Leaves laciniatel : : ‘ : 3 : i R 2. D. laciniata. 
Micranthae. Flowers less than 1’ long, suberect, greenish white: 
on aed of }/2 their length; corolla with 
5. D. undulata. 
5) 
sim 
nobs; stem 
reccaii short 1 aietdlats or oblong, on petioles of tess than Va their 
length; stem branchin ; 4. D. rhytidosperma. 
Leaves Geccite-othole. tiol f than Wa their length; 
corolla with a single dorsa 1k ‘ : 7. D. fall 
Leaves laciniate, on petioles of Wf rau length or less ; ; 6. D. Cecues 
1 5 pe ati oe . Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 457, tab. 77. — DC. Prod. 
Vif, 342. — Ab ing shrub, 5—10 ft. high. Leaves ovate-oblong, 
G—10'. X< 3-6’, on wae petioles of 3—8‘, acute, dentate or serrulate 
with sharp cartilaginous teeth, the base often truncate or subcordate and 
uneyen sided, strongly ridged underneath with subhorizontal veins. Ra- 
ceme fleshy, 3—4‘, many-flowered (12—24), naked in the lower fourth; 
pedicels 8—9"; bracts 11/2". Calyx shortly dentate. Corolla falciform, 
sith a single dorsal knob above the middle, the _ 
Berry ovoid or oblong, 5—7", bluish. — Mann, 
Kauai! Oahu! Wailupe, Manoa, Nuuanu, Wailua, Kaala. 
8 var. obtusifolia. — Leaves 9—12' X 4—7', broadly oe tort 
even suborbicular. Calycine teeth longer, often sbens equalling the 
the dorsal knob of the corolla often wanting. 
Oahu! Halemanu, Waipio 
2. D. laciniata, sp. ». — A branching shrub. Leaves oblong in outline, 
5—6' X 2—31/2', on edule of 3—5', irregularly cut into patent acute 
lobes, the lowest lobes iB deep, with irregular serratures, soley igh 
d 
obconical, its a sharp tri 
to the knobs. Anthers faintly pubescent at the b 
obovoid, about 6“ long. 
Oahu! Wailupe. A variety from the same region has smaller leaves which are only 
ary serrate. 
