Heller: PLANTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 845 



Euphorbia clusiaefolia H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 95. 1832. 



Hillebrand says that this species is an "erect shrub, 3-6 feet 

 high, with stiff branches." He is said to have " visited all the 

 larger islands, penetrating to the inmost recesses of their deep- 

 est and darkest ravines, and climbing to the summits of their 

 loftiest mountains," yet it seems strange that he should make 

 such an erroneous statement of a species which is common on 

 the mountains back of Honolulu. It is by no means an erect 

 shrub, but the soft branches are procumbent or reclining, and 

 there is no trace of stiffness about them. To describe them as 

 sarmentose would be much nearer the truth. Collected at 2500 

 feet elevation, on Konahuanui, Oahu. Also seen on Waiolani, 

 at the same elevation. 



May 23 (2345); from the original locality. 



Euphorbia cordata Meyen, Reise, 2:150. 1843. 



A low shrub, with short, gnarled stems and branches. The 

 leaves are crowded, thick, orbicular. It appears to grow only 

 in dry, hot places. Collected at Diamond Head, Oahu 



March 28 (2019); from the original locality. 



Euphorbia genicnlata Ortega, Nov. Rar. PL Hort. Matr. Dec. 

 18. 1797. 



Collected along the roadside in lower Nuuanu valley, Oahu, 

 and in cultivated ground at Waimea, Kauai. It appears to be 

 well established. Hillebrand says it appeared in gardens be- 

 fore his departure. 



March to October (2035); original locality, tropical America. 



Euphorbia multiformis Gaud.; H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 95. 

 1832. 



That Gaudichaud had truly a plant of many forms in view, is 

 evinced by these remarks by Hooker & Arnott: "If we be right 

 in referring this to the plant alluded to by Gaudichaud, it must 

 be a very variable species; that botanist remarking that in ele- 

 vated situations it forms a small tree, the trunk of which is 

 three or four inches in diameter; but, in descending is found 

 smaller, till at last, in low cultivated places, it is only suffruti- 

 cose, or even herbaceous." Hooker & Arnott give Gaudichaud 

 the credit of the name, but say "absque descriptione," which 

 fact simplifies matters very much, for there can be no doubt 

 about the plant which they describe and credit to Gaudichaud. 

 Their plant came from Oahu, and apparently none of the other 



