Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 893 



wrote their descriptions, and not the plant described by Cha- 

 misso and Schlechtendahl. 

 April 23 (2198). 



Plantago queleana Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 445 pi. 50. 1830. 



Cited by Chamisso and Schlechtendahl in Lindaea, 1 : 168. 

 1826, "Gaudichaud ined." They say the plant was collected on 

 mountain heights, and ask whether it may not be their P. prln- 

 ceps. All the descriptions show that P. queliana is not pros- 

 trate, but has an erect stem, but that there was uncertainty about 

 its being simple. On the ridge west of the Hanapepe river, 

 Kauai, at an elevation of 3000 feet, were collected specimens 

 from plants with stems which were simple and almost an inch 

 in diameter, up to a height of nearly four feet, at which point 

 they sent out five candelabra-like branches, on the ends of 

 which were borne thick clusters of linear lanceolate, long 

 pointed leaves, and long, flowering spikes. It can readily be 

 seen how the earlier botanists, who did not see the living 

 plants, could not be certain about whether the plant branched 

 or not, for only one of the five branches can be used in making 

 a specimen, and even then part of it must be, cut away, so as to 

 make it small enough to go on an ordinary sized sheet of 

 mounting paper. That this and the plant from the Pali, with 

 such a great difference in habit and appearance, can belong to 

 the same species, is hardly possible. 



July 23 (2610). 



RUBIA1EAE. 



BOBEA Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 473, pi. 93. 1830. 



Bobea elatior Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 473, pi. 93. 1830. 



A slender tree, twenty to thirty feet high, with spreading, 

 grayish branches. The leaves are light green, glabrous, and 

 drop off easily. Collected on the heights of Pauoa, back of 

 Honolulu, where it is occasionally found. Bobea is a genus 

 found only in the Hawaiian group. 



October (2897). 



Bobea niannii Hillebr. PI. Haw. Is. 173. 1888. 



The type of this species is M. & B. 621, in the Gray Herbar- 

 ium, Cambridge, Mass. Mann erroneously referred this num- 

 ber to Bobea brevipes A. Gray, being misled perhaps by the 

 pubescence which is common to both species. It is not un- 



