396 EUPHORBIACEAE, | Huphorbia. 
uneven base, chartaceous, with distinct oblique dark veins. Stipules very 
low. Flower-heads terminal and axillary, generally single, subsessile on 
pedicels of less than 1/2“, uae by several short roundish bracts, 
rarely 2--4 in a dense cluster. Invol. less than 11/2‘, pubescent outside, 
glabrous within, with 4 suborbicular glands; the lobes obovate or quadrate, 
with ragged margins. ae hores exserted; bracteoles 3--4-fid. Styles 
free to the base, very pe bifi ‘a seth clavate branches. Capsule erect 
on a short stalk, V2 af seins baie obtuse at the angles. Seeds rugoso- 
scrobiculate. — FH. adtlitorwae: var. lorifolia, Gray, in Mann's Enum. 
no, 439; also the forma angustifolia of fi. multiformis in DC, Prod. lL. ¢., 
te idea Maui! Lanai! Molokai! A tree at elevations of 2000—4000 ft.; the form 
vith narrow lin es from E. Maui. Perhaps the true E. multiformis (without 
desertion) = Gaudichaud, who during his first nc collected also on Hawaii and Maui. 
The native 
e «Koko» or «Akoko» (blood), which is given a a age kth on account 
of the ne Paige pplies s principally to the present species. The same nam urs in Tahiti 
for the Euphorbias of that island. The is much used as yn od. 
. E. multiformis, Hook. & Arn. I. c. (an Gaud?). — A glabrous 
out 2—5 ft. high, with slender nodose branches, the internodes rather 
long. Leaves opposite, obovate or obovate-oblong, 9—18" x 4—9”, on 
petioles of 1, obtuse, rounded or retuse, entire, moderately narrowing 
at the base, thin chartaceous, pale underneath and papillose, the 
conspicuous veins oblique and purplish. Stipules very low, 1/2‘, round 
ower-heads single, terminal and axillary, on aoe of aha ut 1", 
Invol. less than 1”, glabrous, with 4, rarely with 5 glands which are 
broader than high and Seats t on the inner side, the lobes broad 
pita or ovate, fimbriate. Staminophores not exserted; bractlets 
short, finely slit Bee wee Styles very short, connate at the base, 
with por be oe branchlets. Capsule nodding on a Jong stalk, less 
than 1'/2", glabrous, the cocci slightly keeled. Seeds ovoid-tetragonous, 
Sey rugose ee scrobiculate. — Boiss. in DC. . le. and Ie 
uphorb, tab. 2. — Gray, var. « and 7, in Mann's ae — Wawra, 
l. ¢., var. tenuior. 
Oahu! in the lower and middie regions, not uncommon. 
var. tomentella, Gray. — Young branches, leaves and inyolucres 
tomentulose. Plant low prostrate, with thick diverging branches. Leaves 
smaller, 6—12” long. — 
Oahu! along the seashore in Kailua and elsewhere; Maui. 
6. E. Hookeri, Steud. Nomencl. I, 612. — A glabrous shrub, 3—5 ft. 
high, with slender subherbaceous elongate branches, the nodes scarcely 
thickened. Leaves opposite, oyate, 1'/2—2’ d< 3j4—1‘, on petioles of 1'/2"; 
somewhat acute, repando-crenate or crenato-serrulate, rounded at the base, 
sometimes ate, membranous, pale, polished underneath, with veins 
