240 MANN, 



in one species (the Hawaiian) imparipirinate with entire leaflets. Sti- 

 pules small. Flowers corymbed, few or numerous, bracted. 



Genus of 8 species, all natives of the Andes, except the Hawaiian one, which differs 

 from the others in having pinnate leaves. 



0. ANTHYLLIIHFOLIA Lindl. (Enum. No. 127.) A low, very much 

 branched and widely spreading "shrub; the young branches, &c., finely 

 silky with soft hairs. Leaves li'-3' long. Leaflets 11 -21, oblong, 

 obtuse and usually mucronulate, rarely retuse, cuneate at the base and 

 sessile, 3" -9" long, smooth and shining above, silky-hairy beneath, 

 or sometimes glabrate. Peduncles 1 - few-flowered, and, with the 

 calyx, silky or downy. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, a little more 

 than 1" long, one-third the length of the oblong obtuse white petals. 

 Fruit at first hirsute, at maturity smooth, white and edible, ' or more 

 in diameter. 



Very common in many places. Also (a smaller leaved form) from the Loo Choo 

 and Boniu Islands. 



ORDER XXVII. SAXIFRAGACE^E. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate or opposite leaves. Calyx 

 of 4 - 5 more or less united sepals, either free from or more or less ad- 

 herent to the ovary, persistent. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely 

 wanting. Stamens as many or usually twice as many or more, peri- 

 gynous. Ovaries or cells mostly 2 (but in our plant 5) usually united 

 below and distinct above, sometimes completely united and even the 

 styles also. Seeds numerous, with a straight embryo, in fleshy albu- 

 men. A very diversified order. 



1. BROTJSSAISIA Gaud. [Kanawao.] 

 Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Male : Calyx short, free, 5-parted, 

 the lobes triangular or ovate-lanceolate. Petals 5, larger than the 

 sepals, oblong, with a valvate aestivation, deciduous. Stamens 10, in- 

 serted with the petals at the base of the calyx ; filaments thick, subu- 

 late ; anthers ovate, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary imper- 

 fect, the ovules abortive. Female : calyx-tube ovoid more or less 

 adnate to the ovary, with a more or less free, 5-parted persistent limb. 

 Petals small, scale-like persistent. Stamens none ? ovary 5-cellecl ; 

 the placentae thick, projecting from the angles of the cells, 2-parted, 

 many-ovuled. Style very short; stigma thick, radiately 5-lobed. 

 Fruit a many-seeded berry. Seeds oblong, auatropous, with a striate 

 testa. Much branched shrubs with opposite or whorled leaves, with- 

 out stipules. Cymes terminal and many-flowered. 

 Genus peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands. 



1. B. ARGUTA Gaud. {Enum. No. 128.) Large shrub or small tree, 



