Heller : PLANTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 901 



This is the original No. 2606, and very much resembles 

 Gouldia elongata, which was collected several days later, and 

 included under this number, so much alike are they in appear- 

 ance and habit when only superficially examined. Examination 

 will show that it differs from the Gouldia in having terete stems, 

 a capsule dehiscent at the apex, and an ovate, cordate, sessile 

 floral leaf at the end of the first node. Several specimens were 

 also collected at the base of the plateau above Waimea, not far 

 from the original locality. The type was collected by Knud- 

 sen, on the west side of the Hanapepe river. 



Kadna waimeae Wawra, Flora (II) 32:264. 1874. 



A glabrous shrub, branching above, the slender branches 

 drooping; leaves sessile, with cordate, clasping base, ovate, 

 shortly acuminate, one to two inches long. The specimens are 

 rather old, and the leaves have turned dark in drying. Col- 

 lected at an elevation of 2500 feet, on the ridge opposite Gay & 

 Robinson's Hanapepe valley house, Kauai. Originally includ- 

 ed under No. 2615. 



July 23 (2615a); original locality, "Kauai, Wiilder von Hale- 

 manu." 



MORINDA L. Sp. PI. 176. 1753. 



Morinda citrifolia L. Sp. PL 176. 1753. 



Occasional trees are found in Hanapepe valley, Kauai The 

 fruit which is the size of an ordinary orange, is "insipid and 

 very foetid when decaying," according to Hillebrand. It is a 

 small tree, ten or fifteen feet high, with spreading branches, 

 and large, ovate, pointed leaves. 



August 14 (2716); original locality, "in India." 



NERTERA Banks & Sol. ; Gaertn. Fr & Sem 1 : 124, 

 pi. 26. 1788. 



Nertera depressa Banks & Sol. ; Gaeutn. Fr. & Sem. 1 : 124, 



pi. 26, f. 1. 1788. 



Very common in wet woods, near the head of the Wahiawa 

 river, Kauai, where it creeps over the ground and forms thick 

 mats. The stems root at the nodes. Properly the flowers are 

 terminal, but those of young and short branches have the ap- 

 pearance of being axillary . 



August 12 (2702); original locality, "in regionibus antarc- 

 ticus." 



