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including the pubescent peduncles of '/s their length, puberulous, distantly 
flowered, with shallow elongate foveoles. Berries very small, subglobose, 
with apical stigma. 
nly two specimens without label, mixed w aaneaty she ype collected on the 
high ridge of Waiolani to the left of the pali of he anu, ee mall creeping plant, 
in appearance like P. Deppeana, Schl., from tropical Amer 
18.2. sy okiana, Cas. DC. in Prod. 1. c. p. 450. — Stem herbaceous, 
bes 1/2" thick, rooting below. Leaves ternate to quaternate, 
mei, the upper ones elliptico- unoulane: 8’ long, on pubescent 
petioles 3—5", m -coriaceous, opaque, pubescent underneath, 
3- OT: Spikes diay “ ?), with wren peduncles. Bracts orbicular, 
peltate. Ovary subimmersed; stigma apical, fleshy- papiliae: (Deser. 
from the Prod.) 
Sandw. Islds. (Gaud. in herb. De Cand.). — I have suites of plants from Eeka above 
Lahaina and Kaanapali, edelsel and from the pali of Wailau, Molokai! which agree 
with most of the above characters. As Gaudichaud collected above Lahaina, his plants 
eta derive from there. sob were found growing between moss on th 
old tree 
Stems decumbent, rooting below, 4—7! long, slender, coarsely pubescent, 
horizontally branching from the base upward as in P. leptosta ea the 
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ranches opposite below, ternate above. Leaves opposite to quaternate, 
elliptical or ovate, obtuse or pee acuminate or obovate and eaten 
the lower ones suborbicular, 4—12’  3—7“, on petioles of 2—4”, hispid 
or glabrate above, puctisscans and pale underneath, thin, reticulate and 
dotted, or more or less opaque, with an excurrent median anek 2 2 indistinet 
each branch or of short axillary shoots, slender filiform, 1—3‘ long 
including a hispid peduncle of 3—6“, glabrous, loosely flowered. Berry 
small ovoid, with sessile apical stigma. 
It is a much smaller plant than P. tacit ig: coarser in texture, io like it in eaeion 
and profusion of spikes, which are however much shorter. Yet Maui specimens 
larger and thinner ovate leaves exhibit also anes spikes, t la ch 
toward that species. Some Molokai plants have thick and rather acutely ovate leaves, 
Opposi nd about 12“ long, answering to the descriptio e 
other hand, in plants from t island obovate leaves with rounded apex lengthen 
ut eate _ and pass into the form of P. Mauiensis, to which also sgh es 
divided stem m begins accommodate itself: Stem-leaves are generally much Jarger a 
more pointed than fasbe of the branches 
19. P, Separates sp.n. — Erect, much stouter than the preceding 
Species, 6— 10‘ high, the stem fleshy, 2—3” thick near the base and 
densely = Aliy throughout, horizontally branching from the base upward, 
the branches again dividing at nearly every node. Leaves opposite 
below, ternate and quaternate above, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, acuminate, 
9—15" & 4—7", on pubescent petioles of 3—4“, hispid above, pubescent 
underneath, thick, opaque, without pellucid dots, dark-colored when dry, 
