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seems to be most abundant on hot, dry slopes, as around Salt 

 Lake and Diamond Head. Also common in moist ground in 

 Pauoa valley, where specimens were collected. Noticed also 

 on Kauai, near Hanapepe, where it grew along the roadside. 

 There is a superficial resemblance between it and Lespedeza 

 striata. 



Map 16 (2323); original locality, "in Indiis." 



Meibomia uncinata (Jacq. ) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 197. 1891. 



Hedysarura uncinatum Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 3: pi. 298. 1798. 

 Desmodium uncinatum DC. Prodr. 2: 331. 1825. 



Abundant in rich, damp ground, rangiug from the valleys 

 near Honolulu, to an elevation of 2000 feet or more, on Tanta- 

 lus. An erect or reclining perennial herb, with white or purple 

 tinged, rather large flowers. 



March 21 (1968). 



PHASEOLUS L. Sp. PL 723. 1753. 



Phaseolus semierectus L. Mant. 100. 1767. 



Common in rich ground about Honolulu, especially at the 

 northern base of Punchbowl. A long stemmed, herbaceous 

 plant, with dark red flowers, which open fully only in the after- 

 noon. A lower and stouter form (2096), was collected on the 

 beach at Diamond Head. No specimens of P. truxiUensis were 

 found, which is recorded as growing at Diamond Head. 



March 25 (1997); original locality, "in America calidiore." 



OXALIDACEAE. 



OXALIS L. Sp. PL 433. 1753. 



Oxalis corymbosa DC. Prodr. 1 : 696. 1824. 



Oralis martiana Zttcc. Denkschr. Akad. Muench. 9: 144. 1823-24. 



This handsome species has become well established in the 

 neighborhood of Honolulu, and is even found on the outskirts 

 of the forest. In the matter of nomenclature, I have followed 

 the Index Kewensis, the author of which probably has data to 

 prove that the specific name corymbosa was published previous 

 to the apearance of Zuccarini's name, which, accepting this 

 view, must have been published during the latter part of 1824. 



April 9 (2098); original locality, "in ins. Borboniae et Mau- 

 ritii." 



