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forwarded to him, as well as to Dr. Baker, who inquired if he 

 could obtain specimens of the various species of Eucalypts -cul- 

 tivated in the Islands. The identification of the latter is still 

 pending. Of natural grown Eucalypts in Australia the Herb- 

 arium contains an almost complete set, authentically named. 



PLANTS NEW TO SCIENCE. 



In the mountains at Punaluu, Oahu, at an elevation of 2000 

 feet, on August 24, 1908, I discovered and collected specimens 

 of one tree new to science belonging to the genus Euphorbia and 

 of one violet. These, together with a plant belonging to the 

 genus Lysimachia, have been described by C. N. Forbes of the 

 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in the Occasional Papers of that 

 Institution, as Euphorbia Rockii, Viola oahucnsis, and Lysiina- 

 chia longiscpala. The first two, Euphorbia and Viola, were col- 

 lected by me (August 24, 1908). The Lysimachia he obtained 

 when in company with me at Punaluu, November 14-21, 1908, 

 and not as given by him, on August 14-21, 1908; his first four 

 specimens having been collected by me. 



It may be remarked that Mr. Forbes overlooked the creeping 

 rhizome in Lysimachia longiscpala, which my co-type speci- 

 mens, collected November 14-21, 1908, plainly show. 



Besides the above, the following plants new to science were 

 discovered and described by the writer, with exception of 

 Sidcro.vylon rhynchospcrinuni, which was first collected by Dr. 

 H. L. Lyon of Honolulu. 



Scaevola Swezeyana Rock Bull. Torr. Bot. CL, 36:645, 1909. 



A shrub 9-12 dm. high, with stiff, glabrous, rambling branches. 

 Leaves glabrous, oblanceolate, 38-76 mm. X 12-18 mm., on 

 petioles 6-13 mm. long, mucronate, entire, somewhat fleshy; 

 peduncle single-flowered, 4-6 mm. long, entire, slightly pubescent, 

 with two oblanceolate, foliaceous bracts below the calyx 6-18 

 mm. long by 2 mm. broad ; calyx 4 mm., glabrous, with short, 

 bluntish teeth of unequal size ; corolla pubescent, 5-lobed, yel- 

 lowish green with reddish brown streaks ; tube 18 mm.- long, 

 erect, corolla-lobes linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, scarcely 

 margined, 16 mm. X 3 mm. ; stamens somewhat longer than the 

 tube ; style incurved, pubescent throughout, little shorter than 

 the corolla, indusium glabrous, ciliate ; drupe glabrous, crowned 

 by the calyx-teeth, 5-6 mm., two-celled, putamen black, crusta- 

 ,ceous. 



The type is No. 4804 (in the herbarium of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry), collected in the woods on the middle ridge 



