56 Diiiito?-'s Report for igiy. 



I/agenophora maviensis Mann. 



H. Mann in I'loc. Am. Acad. .\rts and Sci.. Vol. II, p. 172 (1867). 

 I., viaiiiijisis Hbd. in Klora II. I.. y>. ig.s (iSSS). 



Mann's type represents the robust form as compared with other 

 Hawaiian forms and species. 



Type locality, top of the mountain of West Maui. Mann & 

 Brigham, No. 440. 



Minutely viscous-pubescent herb with a thick creeping rhizome. 

 Leaves radical or crowded on a short stem, coriaceous, sessile, 

 cuneate to spatulate-oblanceolate, acute or rounded at the apex 

 which is coarsely serrate, entire toward the base, covered with 

 resinous glands and a short, evanescent, pubescence above, pale 

 and glabrous below, 4.8 cm. long, 6 mm. wide ("About 2 inches 

 long, 4-6 lines wide," Mann). Scape 18-23 cm. long, distantly 

 foliose with 3-9 linear-spatulate bracts. Heads globose, large for 

 the genus, 1.5 cm. in diameter. Involucral bracts linear-oblong, 

 acute, membranous, pubescent, equaling the disk. Raj- florets 

 entire, pointed, in 3-4 series, slightly longer than the yellow disk 

 florets, reddish purple. Achenes narrow -lanceolate, the beak 

 glandular-hispid . 



Specimens in B. P. B. M. Herbarium. Type, Mann & Brig- 

 ham, No. 440. Top of mountain of W. Maui, 6,500 feet; Dr. Hille- 

 brand and J. M. Lydgate, Eeka (Puu Kukui, W. Maui); C. N. 

 P'orbes, No. 55, M., Puu Kukui, W. Maui, May 1910; Forbes, No. 

 378, M., P^ke, \V. Maui, October 191 7; G. C. Munro, No. 622, 

 open bog, Puu Kukui, W. Maui, September 1916. 



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