Goodeniaceae-Compositae. 



feet, but is seldom a tree ; it grows usually in out-of-the-way places, as on the sum- 

 mit ridges of the mountains of Oahu, and in the swampy forest and borders of 

 great bogs on Kauai, usually at an elevation of from 3000-5000 feet. The flowers 

 are the largest of the Hawaiian Xaupaka and are bright yellow. 



Scaevola procera Hbd. 

 Naupaka or Xaupaka kuahiwi. 



SCAEVOLA PROCERA Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 268; Del Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. 

 VII. (1892) 217; Heller in Minnes. Bot. Stud. Bull. IX. (1897) 914; Krause Das 

 Pflzenreich LIV. 4. 277. (1912) 123. Lobelia procera O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PL II. 

 (1891) 378. 



Branches terete, densely and shortly cinereous tomentose, adult ones somewhat glabrous, 

 and barbellate in the leal-axils; leaves chartaceous obovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 

 acuminate at the apex, contracting into a petiole of 1 to 1.6 cm rarely longer, margin 

 acutely serrate-dentate, or the base entire, 6 to 15 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm broad, sparsely 

 hispidulous above, pubescent beneath, with distinct and prominent nerves; flowers large 

 in axillary divaricate trichotomous cymes which are cinereous tomeutulose, and shorter 

 than the leaves; bracts linear lanceolate, acute, 2 to 4 mm long, ovary obovoid-oblong, 

 puberulous or subglabrous, about 4 mm; calyx lobes very short, obsoletely deltoid-otate, 

 subacute, with ciliolate margins; corolla white with purple streaks, 1.8 to 2.5 cm long, 

 outside sparcely but inside densely puberulous, the subpatent lobes shorter than the 

 tube, with somewhat broad wings; stamens at the base little dilated, the filiform fila- 

 ments 7 to 8 mm long, anthers elliptical-oblong, truncate, much shorter than the filaments; 

 style somewhat complanate, sparsely puberulous, quite glabrous at the apex, little shorter 

 than the corolla; iudusium with the upper margin shortly ciliate; fruit ovoid, glabrous, 6 

 mm long, 3 to 4 mm thick, indistinctly and longitudinally costate. 



This rather handsome species occurs as a shrub and small tree 15 feet or so 

 high on several islands of the Hawaiian group, but is most common on Molokai. 

 It resembles somewhat S. mollis. It was first found by Hillebrand on Molokai 

 at the Pali of Pelekunu Valley. It was collected by the writer March, 1910, 

 flowering and fruiting back of Kamoku, near Kawela swamp (no. 6159), and 

 again at Wailau pali (no. 7031 and 7036), Molokai. On Kauai he collected it 

 back of Lihue on the Haupu range with almost entire leaves, flowering March 19, 

 3909. (College of Hawaii Herbarium.) 



COMPOSITAE. 



The Composite, or Sunflower, family, is the largest family of plants, com- 

 prising over 800 genera, with more than 10,000 species. The Composite family 

 is considered one of the youngest of the plant families, as some of its tribes are 

 still in full evolution. 



It is distributed over the whole Globe, and is represented in these islands by 

 about 60 species, only a few of which become trees. Of striking character is 

 the well-known Hawaiian Silversword, Argyroxiphium sandiciccnse (Hinahixa), 

 with its variety macroccplialum from Haleakala crater. Some of the arborescent 

 species of Hawaiian Compositae inhabit the high mountains of the group, up to 

 an elevation of over 10,000 feet. 



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