308 SOLANACEAE, { Nothocestrum. 
1. N. longifolium, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. VI, 48. — A shrub or small 
tree with rather slender branches, quite glabrous. teavis thin pee 
nous, lanceolate or elliptico-oblong, acuminate at both ends, 4—7‘ K 
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2—2'/2', on petioles of 3—4". Flowers axillary, single, rarely 2 or 
3 together, drooping on pedicel ig". Cal r, 4—6” with 
flower, 7—10” with , glabrous, sharply or obtusely and always un 
cant 4-toothed. Corolla pale yellow, with the tube not longer than the 
the reflexed lobes silky in ities bud but soon glabrate, more than 
+ aks length of the tube, obovate, with broad and crisp margins. Anthers 
2”, partly exserted. Stigma clavate, included. Berry elongate or fusiform, 
6—10" long, orange-colored, ratber fleshy, included in the calyx or ex- 
serted beyond. 
Oahu! Pauoa, Makaleha (flowers 2—3 together); Molokai! Kalae (leaves monger 
robb mas tg Maui! Mukawao, Ulupalakua, Lahaina (flowers 2 or 3, sometimes 
6 var. brevifolium. — Leaves short, 2—4‘  1—1'/2‘, acuminate or 
obtuse at both ends. 
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2. N. breviflorum, Gray, J. c. p. 49. — A tree, 20—30 ft. high, with white 
bark, greenish wood and short scraggy branches. Leaves oblong, 2'/2—4'/2' 
 1'/4—21/4‘, on petioles of 1—2!/4‘, acute or obtuse at both ends, thin 
ary spur 
4—5", campanulate with flower, globose with fruit and closed over it, 
dentate, almost bilabiate. Corolla greenish- set silky at first, with the 
tube enclosed or only little exserted, 5—6” lon sh the lobes 1/2 as long 
and preceded margined. Berry globose, ag 4“ in 
Hawaii! Kawathae agua Kilauea (leaves narrow acute), Waimea ieee broad obtuse, 
the oder: often few to t miy). 
8 var. longipes. — Leaves as above, acute at both ends. Pedicels 
crowded at the base of short branches, supported by scaly bracts, slender 
and long, 1—2‘, drooping. Calyx ovoid, 3—4“ with fruit, shortly 4-toot thed 
or: 2-lipped. 
Communicated by Mr. Lydgate without indication of habitat The singular inflorescence 
may be owing only to an accidental ra: evelo ae f the spur, but the pedicels 
are much longer than in any other ang a 2 gen 
3. N. latifolium, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 48. — A small tree with rigid branches. 
Leaves broad ovate- or obovate- -oblong, 2—5‘ XX 1'/2—2'/2‘, on petioles 
of %/4—2', obtuse, often rounded, ochraceo-tomentose underneath when 
young, puberulous at a later age, mostly of thick texture. Flowers clus: 
tered on short spurs, the pedicels 3—4”. Calyx urceolate, 2—4", truncate, 
at length , tomentose or glabrate, open with fruit. Corolla greenish 
yellow, silky, the tube twice as long as the calyx, the lobes less than 
