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3. V. CHAMISSOXIANA Gingins. (Enum. No. 12.) Upright shrub, 

 1 - 6 high, stem ' - ' and more thick, branching, glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, and somewhat cordate or 

 rarely acute at the base, acuminate, serrulate, on petioles i'- 2' long. 

 Stipules scale-like, brown and small, entire or serrate in the manner of 

 the foregoing species. Peduncles axillary, i' - 1' long, 1 - 2-bracted 

 above the middle. Flowers 6" -8" long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 

 very little produced at the base. Petals light blue or violet, oblong- 

 spatulate, beardless, nearly equal, the lower one broadly saccate at 

 the base. Anthers glabrous^ tipped with a slender subulate appendage, 

 the lower two bearing a short and thick appendage on the back. Style 

 curved, thickened and gibbous at the apex. Stigma one-sided, trun- 

 cate. 



On the Kaala Mountains. Oahu, and in the vicinity of Waialua. Mountains above 

 Waimca, Kauat. 



2. ISODENDBION Gray. 



Sepals equal. Corolla of 5 equal linear-spatulate petals, which 

 are connivent in a tube, and with their tips spreading. Stamens with 

 slender filaments, without appendages, the connective not prolonged ; 

 anthers affixed by the base. Ovary with two ovules on each placenta. 

 Style elongated, subclavate, apex incurved, simple; stigma lateral. 

 Ovules collateral, horizontal. Capsule coriaceous, surrounded by the 

 persistent sepals and petals, 3-seeded, 3-valved. Seeds obovate. 

 Shrubs. Leaves alternate, clustered; stipules triangular subulate, 

 appressed, persistent. Flowers axillary, short-pedicelled, small. 

 Genus peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands. 



1. I. PYRIFOLIUM Gray. {Enum. No. 13.) Shrub about 6 high, 

 branching ; branches slender, glabrous except the younger which are 

 a little pubescent, beset with the persistent stipules which remain long 

 after the leaves have fallen. Leaves clustered, membranaceous, ovate- 

 elliptical or oval, obtuse at both ends, l|'-2' long, loosely pinnately 

 veined, crenate or minutely serrate with small glandular-tipped teeth, 

 glabrous, or minutely pubescent below when young, as arc the petioles 

 (3"-5" long). Stipules triangular, acute or acuminate, oblique, scari- 

 ous, keeled with a strong and thick midrib which is minutely silky, 

 pubescent externally, ciliolate on the margins, Id" long. Flowers 

 solitary. Pedicels recurved, 2"-3" long, 2-bracted in the middle. 

 Sepals equal and nearly distinct, ovate and acute, in texture and 

 form like the stipules. Corolla hypogynous, or obscurely perigynous ; 

 petals 4" long. Stamens inserted with the petals, and much shorter 

 and alternate, distinct and glabrous. Anthers oblong. 



Wooded parts of Kaala Mountains, Oahu. 

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