Heller : PLANTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 847 



The type is No. 2699, collected at an elevation of 3000 feet, in 

 the bog at the head of the Wahiawa river, Kauai. In some re- 

 spects it resembles E. multiformis, but appears to be distinct. 

 The erect stems and branches are often partly covered with 

 moss and other swamp vegetation. Specimens were distributed 

 under the name of Euphorbia palustris, but as that name is pre- 

 occupied, the appropriate one of sparsijlora is now substituted. 



PHYLLANTHUS L. Sp. PL 981. 1753. 



Fhyllanthus sandwicensis Muell. Arg\ Linnaea, 32:31. 



1863. 



Not uncommon on the grassy slopes of the Pali, Oahu. It is 

 usually decumbent, due, no doubt, to the high winds which are 

 prevalent there. Also collected on the ridge west of the Han- 

 apepe river, Kauai. Here it was growing in the woods, at an 

 elevation of 3000 feet. It is a shrub, ten inches to two feet 

 high. Hillebrand cites this species as published in DC. Prod- 

 romus, 15: Part 2, 389. 



April to August (2196). 



ILICACEAE. 



BYRONIA Endl. Ann. Wien. Mus. 1:181. 1836. 



Byronia anomala (H. & A.) 



Ilex ? anomala H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 111, pi. 25. 1832. 



Reference to the plate of Ilex ? anomala, in the Botany 

 Beechy, and to that of Byronia sandwicensis in the atlas of the 

 Botany of the U. S. Exploring Expedition, shows that two 

 very distinct plants are figured. The plant here taken up is 

 the only form found on Oahu, and on that island is where Lay 

 & Coolie obtained the type of Hooker & Arnott's species. I 

 do not know whether Endlicher based his Byronia sanclwiscensis 

 upon the same plant or not, but in either case, the specific 

 name of sandwicensis caunot be applied to this Oahu plant, to 

 which the name anomala belongs. It is shrubby rather than 

 arborescent, with short crowded branches. The leaves are 

 thick, broadly obovate-spatulate, or stout, margined petioles, 

 and crowded near the ends of the branches. The inflorescence 

 is practically terminal and compact. Collected on the slopes 

 of Konahuanui, Oahu, at elevations of 2000 to 3000 feet. 



May to October (2212) ; from the original locality. 



