Compositae. 



a silky canescent pubescence which is not glandular. The leaves are lanceolate 

 a.nite, leathery in texture, and concave when young. The flowers are yellow. 

 It is found lower down in company with Argyroxiphium sanrtwiccnse, or Silver- 

 sword, Silene, etc. 



Raillardia Menziesii Gray 

 Naenae. 



(Plates 213, 214.) 



RAILLAKDIA MENZIESII Gray Proc. Am. Acad. V. (1862) 133; Mann Proc. Am. 



Acacl. VII. (1867) 176; Wawra in Flora (1873) 79; Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 



228; Hoffm. in Engl. et Prantl Pflzfam. IV. 5. (1889) 248; Del Cast. 111. Fl. 

 Ins. Mai-. Pac. VI. (1890) 214. 



A shrub or small tree, branches stiff and stout, or at lower elevation profusely branch- 

 ing, densely foliose, cinereous or with a rufous hispid not glandular pubescence; leaves 

 ternate or opposite, sessile, elliptical-oblong, or lanceolate, acuminate, entire, or faintly 

 and remotely denticulate, coriaceous, 3 to 5 nerved, glabrate when full grown, but retain- 

 ing a fringe of stiff scabrous ciliae among the margins; heads 10 mm or less, few in a, 

 foliose raceme or panicle of o cm or more, on pedicels of 2 to 8 mm; involucre 

 obcouical, or oblong, florets 2 to 25, but usually only 2 to 10, corollae funnel-shaped, not 

 exserted; achenes glabrous or slightly hispid, ribbed. 



The typical Raillardia Menziesii Gray, (no. 8621 and 8546, in the Herbarium 

 of the College of Hawaii) is a shrub with stiff stout branches and thick, fleshy 

 leathery, ternate leaves, and occurs on and near the summit of Mt. Haleakala at 

 an elevation of from 7000-10000 feet. At 6000 feet elevation, and in gulches 

 at 7000 feet, above Ukulele, on the same mountain, there are quite a number of 

 trees some of them 20 feet high and pictured on plate 214 ; the leaves are thinner, 

 opposite, and approach more Raillardia linearis Gaud. In order to ascertain the 

 identity of the tree, the writer sent several specimens of the species in question 

 to the Gray Herbarium for comparison. In the absence of Prof. M. L. Fernald. 

 Mr. E. W. Sinnott kindly compared the material, of which he writes as follows : 

 "Of R. Menziesii we have but two sheets, one of them the type. Your speci- 

 mens no. 8621 and 8546 (the latter from the summit of Mt. Haleakala with 

 ternate leaves) are obviously typical //. Menziesii upon comparison. The other 

 two, no. 8573 and 8590, (the latter a specimen from the tree figured on plate no. 

 214) are probably referable to the same species, but seem to approach R. linearis 

 Gaud. These two species are placed next each other by Dr. Gray, in his review 

 of the genus in 1862." 



The writer collected the typical R. linearis on the lava fields of Auahi, Kahi- 

 kinui, southern slopes of Mt. Haleakala where it is a shrub 3 feet high at 2000 

 feet elevation. At present it will be advisable to retain the tree in question 

 under R. Menziesii rather than create a new species, until the vast Hawaiian 

 composite material is thoroughly worked up and monographed. 



HESPEROMANNIA A. Gray. 



Heads homogamous, all florets hermaphrodite and equal. Involucre turbinate-cam- 

 panulate, the bracts imbricate, in many rows, dry, thin, chartaceous to coriaceous, the 



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