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tg hairy. Leaves opposite and ternate, obovate-spathulate, 
0—12” 8”, on hairy petioles of 5'‘, shortly eet on both faces, 
membranous, subopaque, pellucid-punctate, reticulate, 3-n the 
median nerve reaching to the apex, the lateral ones falling ae but 
continued to it by a weak duaettan nerve. Spikes axillary (?) and terminal, 
—4 times as long as the leaves, including a peduncle of about 10”, 
filiform, rather densely flowered. vary semi-immersed, with minute 
oblique stigma. Ber ead impressed, ovoid-globose. (Descr. foie the Prod.) 
iq. Ill. Pip. p. 19, tab. 14. — Wawra, 
Oahu (Meyen in herb. eda — A good species, characterized by the sgyoneny or 
cuneate-obovate leaves in conjunction with the unusually bes sa spikes. These i all m my 
specimens, which were collected on Molokai and W. } are single a and etn inal 
at the ends of the stem and branches, as is the case also in Sevens lant in herb. Berlin. 
The Molokai plants have terete stems, 4—6‘ “ton rcantods with oa ns ss spreading branches 
op or obeordate, 
n petioles of 4-6” pore: § pial spathalnte be ; dhovats-oblong and 
shetty end imi acuminate, thick, opague, not 
impressedly 3-nerved, the lateral nerves scarcely aro ha ae Spike 3—5‘ long 
including a ae peduncle of Rad bei! BL its oe not filiform, often avian: 
swelling toward the apex, densely fi 
& var. -- Upper leaves rhomboidal or shortly obovate, purplish-red 
underneath as in var. 3 of P. pachyphylla, those of the long branches 
eae — Spike single. 
faui! Kaanapa 
14.2. ea Wawra, S c. 2. 141. — Reacts oe sneak ee 
long, erect, striate, of Pe I 
branches. Leaves 3—6 in whorl, tei Si spat tinlate or cuneate, 6— io” 
XX 2—3", on petioles of e “rounded at top, glabrous, 1-nerved, thin, 
treaks according to Wawra). Spikes 
terminal, 2—2'/2‘ long, on slender peduncles of ies distantly flowered. 
Bracts chiadlac with hyaline margins. Stigm a: eabobities, papillose. 
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to differ much from the American P. ewesereake, Kth i 
8 var. parvifolia. — Leaves elliptico-oblong, obtusely acuminate, 4—6” 
me 1-nerved. 
ui! Kaanapali. 
15. P. ligustrina, sp. ». — Stems several, erect, 6—9“ long, slender, 
angular, nodose below with short internodes, and only a few short branches 
near the soit Leaves opposite below, ternate above, narrow-lanceolate- 
acute, 8—10”  2—3“, 1-nerved or with 2 short evanescent lateral nerves, 
quite glabrous, dark-green, rather pale underneath, thin but opaque, 
