Lysimachia.] PRIMULACEAE. 285 
aked, 2—21/a", nae small triquetrous. — L. Hillebrandi, var. angusti- 
jotta, Gray, l. ¢. 
Maui! Haleakala, Enis Waiehu; Molokai! Halawa, Waikolu. Collected also by 
Remy. - 
5. L. daphnoides, Hillebr. — Stem 1--3 ft. high, erect, undivided, naked 
below and rough with permanent leaf-scars, densely foliose near the end 
and tomentose with rufous wool, as are the peduncles. Leaves thick 
chartaceous, pea aeee erect, alternate or almost binate or ternate, spa- 
thulate to g, 1!/2—3/ XX !1/2—11!/4‘, shortly acuminate, sessile 
with a heandich bane, papilloso-pubescent underneath or glabrate. Pedicels 
1—2’, nodding, thickened at the end when with fruit. Calyx glandular- 
pubescent, half the length of the corolla or more, parted to the base 
6—7 narrow lanceolate sepals. Corolla large, 9—10”, divided into 
a8 many obovate lobes as the calyx, dark bluish purple when dry (with 
a white border when fresh), Capsule 5“, lignescent. — L. iilterandi 
var. daphnoides, pas, and Wawra, I. ec. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 27. — 
Flowers sweet-scented. 
e\bogs of the high gear above Waimea, which derives its name fro 
the native | ai “a the plant, «Lehua makanoe». (Kn.). Mrs. Sinclair has the native eae 
»Kolokolo kuahiwi» (mountain- -cree i on 
6. L. spathulata. — Benth. d Hook. Gen. Pl. II, 635. — A perennial herb 
with a lignescent base, the erect stem not exceeding a couple of inches, 
thickly foliose at the top and sending off a number of elongate horizontal 
simple or Tir ombscns divided branches which are loosely foliose and end 
in flowering racemes. Leaves alternate, fleshy, glabrous or papillose un- 
ae apedhilaks, 11/2—2’ X 1/4—1/2‘, inclusive of the rather long petiole 
into which the base gradually runs out, shortly acuminate, —, the 
e 2—3/' long 
when in fruit. Flowers single in the axils 
angular pedicels of 1—2‘’ (3—6" when with fruit). Sepals fre 
the base, imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, acute and strongly keeled, half 
the length of the corolla, punctate. Corolla thin, siinreles yellow 3—31/2" ; 
parted two thirds of its length into 5 obovat obe Sia s free 
from each other, inserted at the base of the lobes, enclosed, the anthers 
affixed at the back, introrse. Style as long as the stamens, with puncti- 
form stigma. Capsule crustaceous, ovoid, 3“, opening with 5 short teeth. 
Seeds numerous, ar angular-convex. — me binia spathulata, Vent. — 
DC, in P > -— Lysimachia lineariloba, Hook. & Arn, in Bot. 
Beech. p. 268. — be in Prod. VIII, 61. — Gray, l. c. — L. lubinioides, 
Sieb. & Zuccar. 
Near the seashore; Hilo, Hawaii (U.S. E. E.); Maui and Niihau te dest ae 
Molokai! (Hbd.). — The plant has been collected also on the Maria and 
Bonin Islands, and in J 3 oe 
