874 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



Myrsine lessertiana A. DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. (II) 16: 85. 1841. 



This species is described as having lanceolate leaves, acute 

 at each end. Specimens with such leaves were collected on the 

 lower slopes of Konahuanui, back of Honolulu, at an elevation 

 of about 1800 feet. The leaves are also stiff and coriaceous. 



May 13 (2304). 



Myrsine sandwicensis A. DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. (II) 16:85. 1841. 



Collected on the slopes of Konahuanui, Oahu, at 2500 feet 

 elevation. This species appears to grow only on the edges of 

 steep slopes where vegetation is more or less stunted. It was 

 seen in similar situations on the ridge west of the Hanapepe 

 river, Kauai. The leaves are small, often not over an inch in 

 length, obovate or spatulate, thick and coriaceous. It is a 

 freely branching shrub. No. 2379. 



With the last number was collected a form with leaves of the 

 same shape and texture, but considerably larger. The flower 

 clusters were also much thicker. This is probably Wawra's 

 variety grandifolia "aus Hillebrand's Herbar. 2381," but Hille- 

 brand makes no mention of it. No. 2380. 



PRIMULACEAE. 



ANAGALLIS L. Sp. PI. 148. 1753. 



Anagallis arvensis L. Sp. PI. 148. 1753. 



On the grassy slopes of the Nuuanu Pali, Oahu, this little 

 plant has obtained a foothold, and is well established. There 

 is no record of its occurrence in the Islands, nor was it seen at 

 any other place. 



May 24 (2366); original locality, "in Europae arvis." 



LYSIMACHIOPSIS gen. nov. 



Shrubs, either loosely branched and spreading, or simple and 

 erect; branches and stems often roughened with the scars of 

 fallen leaves, the growing ends covered with reddish tomen- 

 tum; leaves of medium size, alternate, sometimes appearing as 

 if whorled; flowers in the upper axils, on pedicels nearly as 

 long, or sometimes longer than the leaves, purple or red; calyx 

 parted to the base or almost so, into five to nine lobes; corolla 

 urceolate, the lobes imbricate, five to nine in number; stamens 

 united at the base by a granular membrane, which is attached 

 to the base of the corolla, as many as the lobes of the corolla, 



