Lysimachia.} PRIMULACEAE. 283 
long obtuse anthers. Ovules mostly numerous, hemitropous on a globose 
central placenta. Capsule opening from the top into 5—10 valves. Seeds 
small orbicular-angular, with a thin testa and a transverse embryo. — 
Herbs, rarely shrubs, with opposite, whorled or alternate entire leaves. 
Flowers usually yellow or pink, rarely purple or blue, solitary and 
axillary, or collected into terminal racemes, umbels or corymbs. 
A considerable genus, with a wide range in the northern hemisphere and a few species 
only in Southern Africa, America and Australia 
Flowers large, purplish, axillary, 
Leaves bacon pooner ddan ven nme: 
owers in the axils of full-sized lea 
poste cole i ont fe. on short cuaiee generally glabrous 1. 
Leaves pale, 4. 
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Leaves dark, eliptieo-oblons, on long petioles, brown- tomen- 
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Flowers in the axils uced eaves ; ‘leaves ovate ¢ or orbicular 3. L. rotundifolia. 
Leaves broadly sessile; uals bluish-p bigs 5. L. daphnoides. 
Flowers small, yellowish, in terminal racem 6. L. ere 
L. Hillebrandi, Hook. f. — Gray, in Proce. Am. Ac. V, A 
— shrub, 3—4 ft. high, diffusely branching, the ai slit 
ferrugino-tomentose at their ends. Leaves mostly alternate, glabrous, pale, 
coriaceous, the little prominent veins and alveoles united in an intro- 
1 rve, lanceolate, 1—1%/4' * 2—6”, acute nds, on 
al nerve, lanceolate 
petioles of 2“. Flowers solitary in the axils of full-sized leaves, 4—6 
to a branch, on erect or nodding naked pedicels of about 1’, Calyx 
green, elgprous, about 1/2 the length of the corolla, st ns the capsule, 
rte base into 5—7 ovate acute lobes which a ed 
in the Bite Corolla urceolate to mpm , 6—7" long, réddiah- -purple, 
with darker veins, the tube very s 1—1)9", with 5—7 broad obovate 
lobes. Stamens 1/2 the length of sis ae or little more, the filaments 
dilated at the base and subconnate, the anthers erect basifixed. Style 
nearly as long as the corolla. Capsule ovoid, smooth, crustaceous, breaki 
from the style at the top into 5—7 valves. Seeds numerous, black, p seakety 
affixed to a thick ba the ventral side eho conical, os dorsal 
side flat. — Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 521 (in part 
Oahu! on bare a ridges of Kalihi and Manoa. Nat. name: «Puahekili>. 
8 var. subherbacea. — Prostrate, 1!/2—2 ft. high, with elongate branches, 
glabrate. Leaves distant, all alternate, longer acuminate, 2—3' x 4— 6", 
Pedicels ae —3‘. Lobes of calyx and corolla 5—6. Capsules 4” long, 
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Gulch igs Halawa, Molokai! among pebbles alongside the stream. 
~ var. — Tall, erect, 5—8 ft. high, the elongate branches and peduncles 
ferruginous. Leaves distant, alternate, opposite and ternate, obovate- 
oblong, 21/3! ey 1’, suddenly acuminate from a broad apex, obtuse 
