176 MANN, 



pressed or somewhat triangular. Leaves simple, varying from broadly 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, and 3' -4' long, to narrow- 

 lanceolate, or oblong-cuneate and very obtuse, or almost linear- 

 cuneate, always narrowed into a more or less distinct petiole, entire 

 or obscurely sinuate, or rarely almost 3-toothed at the end, the pinnate 

 veins usually rather numerous and very divergent, sometimes scarcely 

 conspicuous. Sepals ovate, usually as long as, or rather longer than, 

 the oblong obtuse anthers. Style rarely elongated. Capsule very 

 variable in size, the wings continued from the base to the style, or 

 nearly so. Seeds rather large, dark-colored, opaque or scarcely shin- 

 ing. Var. SPATHULATA : usually a small and low bush, often very 

 viscid. Leaves shorter, obovate-oblong, oblong-cuneate, spatulate, 

 oblanceolate or broadly linear-cuneate, often obtuse or truncate. 



Not uncommon in open land on the sides of mountains. Also Waialua Valley, West 

 Maul. The variety in the high regions of Hawaii and East Maul. 



2. D. ERIOCARPA Smith. (Enum. No. 91.) Agreeing with No. 1 

 in most points, but with the leaves generally duller, and the young 

 branches, petioles, the capsules and margins and midribs of the leaves 

 puberulent with short scattered hairs. Perhaps not sufficiently dis- 

 tinct from D. viscosa. 



In much the same places as the last species, usually in dry situations. 







2. CABDIOSPEBMUM Linn. [Poniu.] 



Flowers polygamous, Sepals 4, broadly imbricate, the two outer 

 ones small. Petals 4, 2 larger with a large scale, 2 smaller with a 

 crested scale. Disk one-sided, almost reduced to 2 prominent glands 

 opposite the lower petals. Stamens 8, oblique. Ovary eccentrical, 3- 

 celled, with one ovule in each cell ; style very short, with 3 stigmatic 

 lobes. Capsule inflated, membranous, more or less 3-cornered, 3- 

 celled, opening loculicidally. Seeds globose, with a thick stalk and 

 small arillus ; testa crustaceous ; cotyledons large, transversely folded. 

 Herbs or undershrubs, mostly climbing. Leaves dissected. Flowers 

 few, small, on long axillary peduncles, which usually bear a tendril 

 under the panicle. 



A small genus, chiefly American, of which 2 species are also spread over the old 

 world within the tropics, and a third is perhaps confined to the old world. The Hawaiian 

 species is one of those most widely diffused. 



1. C. HALICACABUM Linn. (Enum. No. 92.) A straggling, or 

 somewhat climbing annual or perhaps perennial, attaining several feet 

 in length, glabrous, or slightly pubescent. Leaf-segments usually 

 twice ternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed or lobed, the 

 upper leaves smaller, narrower, and less divided. Peduncles 2' - 3' 

 long, bearing a double or treble short recurved tendril, under the small 



