Cyanea.] LOBELIACEAE. 253 
a simple stem; several ais (nos. 1, 3, 10) seem only to branch when 
the apex has been bro 
1. C. angustifolia, eae bie: — A shrub, 5—8 ft. high. Stem simple or 
sparingly branching, the branches suberect, densely a at the ends, 
glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or elongate-oblong, 5 > ‘, on long 
petioles of 3—4‘, equally acuminate at both initia appressedly becriciaes. 
Sig eR err the transparent veinlets minutely reticulate. Pe- 
dun 4‘ long, estonia densely flowered near the apex, sinks below ; 
the veils filiform, %/s—1‘; bracts subulate, */4“; bractlets es or 
wanting. Calyx sna te 2'/2', purplish, shortly t 
viv moderately curved, 1—1%/2‘ long, 1—1'/2“ wide, the dete aif 
3—4”, bluish. Seeds dark yellow. — Lobelia phe eben Cham. in Linnaea, 
VUI, 219. — Delissea angustifolia, Presl. — Mann, Enum. no. 260. — 
D. acuminata, var. angustifolia, Gray. — D. Honétitendia: Wawra. — The 
medullary cavity of the woody stem is chambered by numerous thin 
i Spee hg et: 
ain FARES; common in Nuwanu vPetg adjoining xpearias — peduncles 11/2—21/2', 
flowers 
with flow d at the hogs Mo ee | Halawa; — peduncles 3—31/2‘, the 
disposed along the upper half, smaller, n exceeding 1‘, the Teves ea al pubescent 
along the rib. Maui! Lahaina, Oloalu; — anaes small, 9—12”, on short peduncles of 
1’, leaves short and broad. 
8. — Leaner rounded at the base, coarsely serrate with uncinate teeth. 
Lanai 
{ var. racemosa. — Peduncle mach elongate, 5—10‘, drooping, naked 
in the lower third or half, racemosely flowered above; leaves chartaceous, 
nee, 21/2’ broad, 
ahu! Waipio, penning race. 
3 var. tomentella. — Traces of pubescence on leaves, calyx and corol 
Leaves oblanceolate, 12‘ < 2%4‘, on petioles of 3’. Peduncles licker. 
eit rage teeth ‘/4 the length of the tube 
Oahu! Halemanu. Renders easy the transition to C. obtus 
2. . Mannii, Hillebr. — Habit and size of the preceding species 
Leaves elongate-oblong with a rounded base, 6—8' 13/4—2‘, on sadiolen 
of 1!/2—21/2‘, glabrous or puberulous along the midrib below. Peduncle 
(with advanced buds) 2—3’, naked in the lower half, puberulous; pedicels 
4—6", bracteolate below the middle; bracts linear, 3“, but often foliaceous; 
bractlets 1—11/2”, Calyx puberulous, the adnate tube 3“, the lanceolate, 
mostly 3-nerved, lobes as long or longer. Corolla almost straight, and 
probably of the same size as in no. l, aia cena blue. emery 
eli 
column glabrous. — issea Mannii, Brigham, . Enum. no, 270. 
Molokai! Kalae. — The seeds are give mas pre m as -minaisine a retittaa, 
but this is so much at variance with what rved in all allied species that the 
rectness of baat statement may fairly be doubted. peal = herbarium a f Harvard Univ. 
hor that of Mr. Mann at Cornell Univ. con specim Those collected by myself 
