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color. The leaves do not appear, as a rule, until after the 

 flowers have dropped. There are a number of trees on the 

 grassy slopes along the Hanapepe river, Kauai. It was not 

 seen on Oahu. 

 June 24 (2445). 



IND100FERA L. Sp. PI. 751. 1753. 



Indigofera anil L. Mant. 272. 1767. 



Common in the valleys and on the slopes back of Honolulu. 

 The specimen in the Mann and Brigham collection, at the Ber- 

 nice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, is not this species as 

 labeled, but probably /. tinctoria, as it has a straight pod. /. 

 tinctoria, according to Hillebrand, has been introduced but was 

 not seen by me. 



March 21 (1967); original locality, "in Indiis." 



MEDICAGO L. Sp. PL 778. 1753. 



Medicago intertexta Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. No. 4. 1768. 



Rather common about Honolulu, in yards, gardens, and grassy 

 places along "the streets, but not noticed at any distance from 

 cultivated land. Flowers small, yellow. The creeping stems 

 are often three or four feet long. Not recorded as growing in 

 the Hawaiian Islands. The Index Kewensis says that M. inter- 

 texta Willd. Sp. PL 3:1411, is equal to M. ciliaris Crock., a 

 name which has been used four times in the genus. Whatever 

 the latter plant may be, M. intertexta of Willdenow is identical 

 with Miller's plant, and was not published as a new species, as 

 can readily be seen by referring to the Species Plantarum, 

 where Willdenow says: " Medica leguminibus cochleatis spin- 

 osissimus, aculeis utrinque tendentibus, Mill. Diet. n. 4." 



March 22 (1982). 



MEIBOMIA Adans. Fam. PL 2:509. 1763. 



[Fleurobolus St. Hil. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1812, 192. 1312.] 

 [Oesmodiuiu Desv. Journ. Bot. 3: 122. 1813.1 



Meibomia triflora (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 197. 1891. 



Hedysarum tnflorum L. Sp. PL Ed. 2, 1057. 1763. 

 Desmodium trijlorum DC. Prodr. 2: 334. 1825. 



This diminutive species must be much more common than 

 formerly. Hillebrand says that it grows "on the Waikiki 

 plains near Honolulu, and probably elsewhere, in spring." It 



