130 MANN, 



8. S..SPERGULINA Gray. (Ennm. No. 32.) Shrubby at the base, 

 about 2 high, erect, much branched and very leafy, glabrous. Leaves 

 spreading, approximate, and usually with smaller ones fascicled in 

 their axils, filiform, 2' long and only i" wide, 1-nerved, channelled 

 above, mucronulate. Inflorescence much like that of S. ligustrina. 

 Bracts of the lower part of the thyrsus like the leaves; of the 

 upper, short, and ovate-subulate. Peduncles and pedicels minutely 

 pubescent, 1" - 2" long. Calyx about 1" long ; the sepals ovate, obtuse, 

 rather fleshy, nearly nerveless, very slightly pubescent near the base. 

 Capsule ovoid, 3-valved, a little longer than the calyx. Seeds several, 

 the testa obscurely tuberculate or roughened, nearly smooth. 



Kauai. Lanai. 



9. S. REMYI H. Mann. (Enum. No. 33.) Barely shrubby at the 

 base. The lower leaves very narrowly linear, 2' -3' long, 1" wide, 

 with smaller ones o'ften fascicled in their axils, the upper ones subulate, 

 all thin and flat, 1-nerved. Thyrsus much contracted and crowded, 

 minutely pubescent. Sepals a line or less in length, ovate, obtuse, 

 many-nerved. Styles 4-6, rather long. Capsule ovoid, shorter than 

 the calyx. Seeds numerous, very nearly smooth. 



Molokai. 



10. S. GLOBOSA H. Mann. (Enum. No. 84.) Low and herbaceous, 

 pruinose-puberulent on the upper part of the stem and on the inflores- 

 cense, otherwise glabrous. The simple branches rising from the base, 

 a span to a foot high, bearing 4-5 pairs of leaves. The lower leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate from a narrowed sessile base, somewhat fleshy, 

 about 4' long and 1' wide, 3 -5-nerved, the upper diminished into small 

 subulate bract-like 3-nerved leaves but 10" long and l"-2" wide. The 

 upright stem bearing a compact globose thyrsus (rarely with two late- 

 ral ones) of an inch in diameter, composed of numerous many-flowered 

 short cymules. Sepals ovate, obtuse, nerved below the middle, li" 

 long, shorter than the 4-valved ovate-lanceolate capsule. Staminodia 

 very short, blunt, entire, of about the length of the stamens. Seeds 

 few, larger than in the other preceding species, and tuberculate rough- 

 ened. 



In the region of Koko Point, Oahu. 



11. S. VISCOSA H. Mann. (Enum. No. 35.) Suffruticose, decum- 

 bent and spreading, with branches 2 - 3 long, sending up somewhat 

 erect flowering stems 8' - 11' high. Whole plant covered with a glan- 

 dular pubescence, especially viscous on the peduncles and pedicels. 

 Leaves li'- If long, 4" -5" wide, evenly tapering at each end to a 

 sharp point, borne on a margined petiole 2" long, and becoming gla- 

 brate on the upper surface with age, nerved with three well-marked 



