Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 903 



Psychotria hirta (Wawra) 



Collected in flower only, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, on the 

 plateau above Waimea, Kauai. A slender tree, fifteen feet 

 high, with obovate, abruptly pointed leaves, which are pubes- 

 cent underneath on the veins and midrib, and also brown 

 scaly in the spaces between the veins. The flowers are large, 

 lemon yellow, but the cymes are not specially contracted, al- 

 though they are few flowered. 



October 12 (2876); original locality, "Gebirgs walder von 

 Halemanu," 



RICHARDIA L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753. 



Richardia scabra L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753. 



Common in cane fields on the lee side of Kauai, and also in 

 pastures. Specimens were collected near Hanapepe, in a cane 

 field, and on the plateau above Waimea, where it was growing 

 on the edge of the woods. 



July to September (2564);. original locality, "in Vera Cruce." 



STRAUSSIA A. Gray, Proc. Am, Acad. 4:42. 1860. 

 It seems that Nuttall had recognized that these plants be- 

 longed to an undescribed genus, and has labeled his specimens 

 Apionema, with three species, obovata, penduliflora • and 

 sulcata. Unfortunately he never published a description of 

 them, and Dr. Gray did not take up his name, but substituted 

 Siraussia in its stead. 



Straussia kaduana (C. & S.) A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 4:43. 

 1860. 



Coffea kaduana C. & S. Linnaea, 4: 33. 1829. 

 A variable species, one number of which (2193) I distributed 

 as "Siraussia parviflora n. sp." It is merely a small leaved 

 form, collected on the steep slopes of the Nuuanu Pali, Oahu. 

 On the slopes of Konahuanui, at an elevation of 2,500 feet, an- 

 other form (2350) was collected. This has longer leaves and 

 larger fruit. Another form from the head of Kalihi valley 

 (2333), has long, erect, pubescent peduncles. The length of 

 the corolla tube is variable in this species, but it is always 

 supposed to be smooth in the throat. Though the leaves are 

 variable, they are more or less obovate and short peticled in 

 all cases, as in the original description: "Folia breviter petio- 

 lata, firmia, opaca, cuneato-obovata, angulo apicali obtuso, 



