266 GOODENIACEAE, {Scaevola. 
top, entire, narrowed into a short broad petiole, the nerves hidden. Cyme 
compound, shorter than the leaf, 1—3‘ long, 5—-9-flowered, the peduncle 
4—9", the lateral pedicels 3—4“, bracts 2—1. Calyx tomentose, 3”, 
tube, spreading, obovate, pointed, the broad wings confluent at the apex. 
Style and indusium hispid, the former truncate, as long as the eee 
the latter densely ciliate at the rim. Drupe 2-celled, obovoid, 5—6“ lo 
pubes r 10-ribbed, the thickened mesocarp suberose, is 
putamen crustaceous. — Benth. Fl. Hongk, p. 198. — S. Koenigit, 
Vahl. — S. sericea, Forst. — 8S. plumierioides, Nutt. — Mrs. Sinclair, 
pl. 32. 
Along the eee. here and there on all islands. Specimens from Kailua, Oahu! 
and Kohala, Ha i! have nearly glabrous leayes, while in those from Kolaupa 
og Aina the tae ‘is of unusual length. The species is widely diffused over Polynesia 
he shores of tropical Asia and adjoining islands (Hance, in Walp. Ann. TI, 1054, 
pens s. latevaga). 
2. S. coriacea, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soe. VIII, 253. — A low 
which are foliose at their ends and tufted in the axils with a little 
short ma Leaves oboy r spatl , 1-ha! K ps 
roadly rounded « or shortly dy Pa entire, contracting into a short and 
e 
peduncle 6—-9”, the lateral pedicels 3—4", bracts 1—'/2. Calyx cylin- 
drical, 2°, plabeats: the short limb truncate or sinuate. Corolla whitish, 
glabrous outside, hairy inside, 6—8”, the lobes half as long as the tube, 
narrowly margined. Stamens 1/2 the length of the tube. Style hispid 
throughout, as long as the corolla, the indusium gen ciliate. Drupe 
ovoid, ees 3”, — Gray in Proc. Am. Ac. V, 151. — Walp. Ann. 
II, 105 
: Kea Maui! Kalepolepo; Oahu! cape Kaena, on lava near the seashore; Niihaw 
3. S, Gandichaudii, Hook. é Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 89. — A low divart 
cately branching shrub, 2—3 ft. high, the young branches ca ns 
puberulous, the axils with faint, soon evanescent patches of hair. Leaves 
narrow spathulate, 11/2—3/ long ne a petiole of '/2—1‘, a and 2-8" 
broad, era or shortly acuminate, quite entire or faintly dentate with 
1—3 distant callous toothlets on each side, clas fleshy, with age ee 
ous veins, glabrous. Peduncle filiform, puberulous, 1-flowered, sho 
than the petiole, 2—3“; bracts filiform, 3—4. Calyx glabrate or ees 
ulous, 2” long, truncate or shortly oe broadly 5-toothed. Cor olla 
purplish-white, glabrous, the slender erect tube 5—6/, the spreading lobes 
linear-lanceolate with a subulate point, 3—4” long, scarcely marge ined. 
