230 NATURAL HISTORY OF HAWAII. 



fact is that some of them grow on upright and other on procumbent, creeping 

 stems three to five feet in length. These familiar sweet-scented flowers, together 

 with the moss and lichens, the stunted, creeping kolokolo kuahiwi ^-^ and maieli 

 or pupukeaAve ^-^ combine to form one of the most striking and interesting pro- 

 vinces in the flora of the whole group. 



I>ut it is not to be expected that all the interesting and remarkable forms^ 

 in the plant life of the islands could be touched upon in a few short pages. 

 Only a few have been mentioned; but omissions cannot be wondered at, as the 

 largest books on the subject leave much that is interesting unnoticed and often 

 fail to give the information that one would wish about even the common trees 

 and plants. 



■* Lysimachia da pini aides. ^^ Cyothodes Tameiameice. 



