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the terminal one, bearing four rays, each ray three to five 

 flowered; calyx a line long, with inconspicuous lobes; flowers 

 white, three lines long, the tube pubescent, lobes spreading, as 

 long as the tube, oblong, obtuse; stamens short, slightly ex- 

 serted, inserted at the junction of the corolla lobes with the 

 tube; filaments not longer than the anthers, somewhat pubes- 

 cent; style not exserted, two lobed; ovary glabrous. 



The type is No. 2300, collected May 13th, on the heights of 

 Pauoa, Oahu. It is possible that this may be Nuttall's Apio- 

 nema penduliflora, published by Dr. Gray as a synonym of 

 Straussia kaduana. There is apparently no way of determining 

 this, except by comparing it with Nuttall's specimen in herb. 

 Hooker. It seems to be Hillebrand's Straussia kaduana var. 

 gamma from Pauoa and Makiki. To this species must also be 

 referred No. 2210, which differs in having broader leaves on 

 shorter petioles. In texture, though, they are the same as those 

 of No. 2300. It was also collected on the heights of Pauoa. 



LOBELIACEAE. 



CLERMONTIA Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 459, pi. 71-73. 

 1830. 



Clermontia clerniontioides (Gaud.) 



Delissea clermontiokles Gaud, in Mann, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:178. 



1867. 

 Clermontia gaudichaudii Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 243. 1888. 



Figured by Gaudichaud, but not described, in the atlas of 

 the Botany of the Voyage of the Bonite, as plate 47. The first 

 description appears to have been drawn up by Mann, and cred- 

 ited to Gaudichaud as cited above. It occurs at intervals in 

 wet woods near the source of the Wahiawa river, Kauai. A 

 much branched bush, eight or ten feet high, with thick, pale 

 green, elliptical oblong, pointed, crenulate leaves. The yellow 

 fruit is almost an inch in diameter. 



August 12 (2704). 



Clermontia kakeaua Meyen, Reise, 358. 1843. 



Clermontia macrophylla Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 8: 251. 



1843. 

 Clermontia macrocarpa Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bon. pi. 49, without de- 

 scription. 

 Hillebrand takes up the specific name macrocarpa, and re- 

 marks as follows: "Meyen's name is older than Gaudichaud's, 

 but, as it was published without description, and the word 



