900 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL, STUDIES. 



To this species is also referred No. 2442, collected near the 

 same place, but on a steep bank above the Hanapepe river, 

 while the former grew near the water's edge. This differs in 

 being a branching shrub, two or three feet high, with broader 

 leaves on longer petioles. The calyx lobes are also shorter 

 and broader. Were it not for the fact that forms intermediate 

 between this and No. 2440 were noticed wherever the two oc- 

 curred, I would not hesitate to describe it as a distinct species. 



Kadua glomerata H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 85. 1832. 



Hillebrand records this species from Oahu.but on the Waianae 

 mountains only. We are not told on what part of Oahu, Lay & 

 Coollie collected their specimens, but one would naturally sup- 

 pose that they did the greater part of it in the neighborhood of 

 Honolulu. My specimens were collected on Konahuanui, back 

 of Honolulu, where it is plentiful at an elevation of 2500 feet. 

 The herbaceous, hollow branches are usually four or five feet 

 long and reclining. The slender tube of the corolla is almost an 

 inch in length. As described by Hooker & Arnott, the calyx 

 and corolla are both strongly pubescent, and "the teeth of the 

 calyx are linear and very rigid " 



November 2 (2907); probably from the original locality, 



Kadua knudsenii Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 162. 1888. 



No. 2606, in part, collected July 23, at the head of the valley 

 opposite Gay & Robinson's Hanapepe valley house, Kauai. 

 The plants were growing alongside of a small waterfall. The 

 slender, almost vine- like branches were eight or ten feet long, 

 and drooped over the bank. Specimens in both flower and 

 fruit were obtained. The following is Hillebrand's descrip- 

 tion: "Branches slender, bilineate, the longest in ternode 2|'. 

 Stipules triangular. Upper leaves 3xlf inches, on petioles of 2 

 lines, broad oblong, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 chartaceous, faintly puberulous beneath. Lowest floral leaf 

 cordate, sessile, 1 inch, the uppermost very small, not over one 

 line long. Panicle pyramidal, ample and open, 8 inches long, 

 with six nodes, the lowest branches again ramifying divari- 

 cately with simple or compound cymes at their ends, the lat- 

 eral flowers on pedicels of 1-H lines; the ultimate bractlets 

 linear-spatulate to dentiform, about | line long. Calyx lobes 

 ovate or lanceolate, shorter than their tube. Corolla glabrous, 

 its tube 3 lines, the spreading lobes more than -| that length, 

 with tips inflected in the bud. Anthers sagittate, sessile below 

 the throat. Style £ as long as the tube, with linear lobes, 

 hairy at the base." 



