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Labordea.) APOCYNACEAE, 293 
oblong, 2—4/ > 3/4—11/2‘, on petioles of 2—6”, acuminate at both ends, 
chartaceous, glabrous. Flowers many in a paniculate cyme of 1'/2—4' in 
length, with a peduncle of !/:—1‘, the primary branches opposite and 
rather distant, the ultimate pedicels 3—9, subequal. Bractlets subulate. 
Calyx 1/2", divided beyond the middle into 5 triangular acute lobes. 
Corolla greenish, very slender, salver-shaped, the tube 3—4", glabrous, 
but pubescent within, the lobes about 1/s as long. Capsule globose or 
short ovoid, somewhat obtuse, a 5“ high, slightly salen 2- wide ed or 
very rarely 3-valved, the valves rounded at the back. — A single cap- 
sule in my numerous specimens is 3-valved. 
Oahu! Maui! 
8 var. — Leaves smaller, 1j2—-2' X '2—%/s’. Cyme few - flowered. 
Capsule obovoid, 3—4". 
Molokai! Kalaupapa. 
+ var. — Capsules ovoid, areet 6“ long. 
cles Maui! Kaanapali; Lan ll obtuse, almost rounded at the base; 
Hawa 
. triflora, sp. __ Habit as in no. 8. Leaves ovate- or obov 
Sieag $—3' [3° XC I— ie subsessile or on short petioles of scarcely a 
acuminate, cordate or emarginate at the rounded or truncate base, thin 
chartaceous, glabrous. Cyme 3- flowered, with a slender, often reflected 
peduncle of 1!/2—2‘, the pedicels all equal, 6—12", minutely picts 
about the middle, rarely 4—5-flowered by division of the median brane 
Calyx and corolla as before, the tube of the latter 5—6”. Capsule conico- 
elongate, pointed, 7—10" high, 2-valved. f 
olokai! Mopulehu 
Orper LIV. APOCYNACEAE. 
Sepals 5 or rarely 4, free, or united at the base, imbricate in the bud. 
Corolla with 5 or rarely 4 lobes contorted in the bud and usually oblique. 
Stamens as many as lobes of the corolla, alternate with them, inserte 
in the tube and generally Soc, the anthers opening inward, free, 
or cohering with the stigma. Ovary either 2-celled, or rarely 1 celled 
with 2 parietal placentas, or more frequently the 2 “ are distinct, 
Ree ce) 
2 follicles opening inward. Seeds laterally affixed or pendulous, rarely 
erect, usually with albumen. — Trees, shrubs, woody climbers, 
the sap mostly milky. Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate, entire, 
without stipules, but frequently having glands between the leaves or in 
