Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 875 



and opposite them, filaments comparatively long, slightly di- 

 lated at the base, anthers oblong, one-third the length of the 

 filaments, slightly pointed; capsule ovoid, woody or crustace- 

 ous, breaking from the style at the top, into as many valves as 

 there are calyx and corolla lobes. 



A genus hitherto confused with LysimacJiia, from which it 

 differs primarily in being composed of shrubs instead of herbs, 

 and by having red or purple, urceolate flowers. 



Lvsimachiopsis daphnoides (A. Gray) 



Lysimachia Hillebrandii var. daphnoides A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 



5:329. 1862. 

 Lysimachia daphnoides Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 285. 1888. 



An erect, simple stemmed shrub, one to three feet high. Oc- 

 casionally there is a tendency to branch, but this seems due to 

 some injury which the plant has received. On some plants the 

 pedicels are very long and recurved. In flowers which have 

 not matured, the calyx is reflexed, as is shown in Plate LVII. 

 The obovate-oblong, crowded leaves are sessile. Collected in 

 fruit only, at an elevation of 3000 feet, in the bog at the head 

 of the Wahiawa river, Kauai, where it is plentiful. . Gray's 

 original came from the large bog on the plateau above Waimea. 



August 21 (2736). 



Lysimachiopsis hillebrandii (Hook, f.) 



Lysimachia hillebrandii Hook. f. ; A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 5:328. 1862. 



Specimens were collected on the ridges west of the Hanapepe 

 river, Kauai, at elevations of 3000 feet and more. The plant is 

 rather common, and answers well to the description of this 

 species, as given by Hill|brand, with the exception of "stamens 

 £ the length of the corolla or little more.*' They are slightly 

 exserted, and therefore longer than the corolla. It is a bush, 

 with rambling branches, which are two or three feet long in 

 some cases. The calyx is almost half the length of the corolla, 

 the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, scarious margined. The cor- 

 olla is about three-fourths of an inch in length, purple, the 

 ovate lobes acutish, with broad greenish or whitish, eroded 

 margins. The filaments are a quarter of an inch in length, and 

 therefore not "short,'' as given by Hillebrand, in his generic 

 description of Lysimachia. No. 2614, from which the generic 

 description is mostly drawn, and represented by Plate LVIII. 



