826 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



RANUNCULACEAE. 



RANUNCULUS L. Sp. PI. 548. 1753. 



Ranunculus mauiensis A. Gray. Bot. U. S. Expl. Exped. 

 15:11. 1854. 



Although the Kauai form differ somewhat from the type, 

 collected on Maui, in having narrower and more dissected 

 leaves, and has more pubescence, it cannot well be separated. 

 The plants are erect, spreading. In general appearance and 

 habit, it is more like R. recurvatus, than the plants which have 

 been promiscuously called R. repens, and to which Hillebrand 

 likened it. Specimens were collected on the ridge west of the 

 Hanapepe river, at 3500 feet elevation, where it occurs spar- 

 ingly, and also on Kaholuamano, above Waimea, where it is 

 plentiful in the forest at an elevation of 4000 feet. None of the 

 plants were in good condition, however. It was originally des- 

 inated as var. beta. 



July to September (2635); original locality, "mountains of 

 Kauai.'' 



LAURACEAE. 



CASSYTHA L. Sp. PI. 35. 1753. 



Cassvtha liliformis L. Sp. PI. 35. 1753. 



This peculiar, leafless plant, with the habit of a Guscuta, is 

 plentiful on the left bank of the Hanapepe river, just above 

 Gay & Robinson's house. It twines over the grass and Guava 

 bushes in dense taugled masses. 



August 14 (2729); original locality. " in India." 



CRYPTOCARYA R. Br. Prodr. PL Nov. Holl. 402. 1810. 



Cryptocarya mannii Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 382. 1888. 



A small tree, ten to fifteen feet high, which is rather common 

 in the woods of Kaholuamano, above Waimea, Kauai, at an ele- 

 vation of 4000 feet. The fruit is crowned by the remains of the 

 perigone, or at least has a well developed projection, a point 

 about which Hillebrand was not certain. 



October 4 (2854); from the original locality, "mountains 

 above Waimea, Kauai." 



