Heller: PLANTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS' 913 



GOODENIACEAE. 



SCAEYOLA L. Mant. 145. 1771. 



Scaevola ckamissoniana Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 461, pi. 



82. 1830. 

 A common and variable species. A shrub, six to ten feet 

 high, freely branching, the flowers white, tinged with purple. 

 No. 2052, collected at an elevation of 2,000 feet on Tantalus, 

 back of Honolulu, had rather narrow, oblanceolate leaves, and 

 short cymes. No. 2340, collected at the head of Kalihi 

 valley, Oahu, has broader leaves, more abruptly contracted 

 below, and longer cymes. No. 2569, collected at an elevation 

 of 2,500 feet, near the Wahiawa river, Kauai, has broad leaves 

 on longer petioles, and densely flowered cymes, which are 

 much branched, and extend beyond the leaves. The leaves in 

 all three forms are serrate, and more or less acuminate. 



Scaevola glabra H. &A. Bot. Beechy, 89. 1832. 



This seems to be unlike the other species, and perhaps is 

 generically distinct. It was collected in fruit, on the plateau 

 above Waimea, Kauai, where it grew far back in wet woods. 

 The linear, persistent calyx lobes are half the length of the 

 fruit. The yellow corolla is thick and leathery, and, judging 

 from illustrations, is very different from the corollas of other 

 Hawaiian species. 



September 15 (2806); original locality, Oahu. 



Scaevola koenigii Vahl. Symb. Bot. 3:36. 1794. 



Collected along the seashore at Mana and Waimea, Kauai. 

 Hillebrand, who calls it Scaevola lobelia L., describes it as "an 

 erect shrub, 4-6 ft. high, extensively branching from the base, 

 the succulent branches, leaves, and inflorescence generally 

 silky pubescent, rarely glabrate." Not one of the bushes seen 

 at Mana or Waimea were erect, but decumbent and much 

 branched, the branches somewhat ascending. The berries are 

 white. 



August to October (2730). 



Scaevola mollis H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 89. 1832. 



Collected on Konahuanui, Oahu, at an elevation of 2500 feet; 

 The lanceolate leaves are thick, dark green above, densely to- 

 mentose beneath. The flowers are pale purple. 



May 23 (2346); original locality, Oahu. 



