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above sea level, at' Diamond Head. The leaves are very white 

 wooly. 



March 20 (1957). 



LIPOCHAETA DC. Prodr. 5:610. 1836. 



Lipochaeta calycosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 5:130. 1862. 



A suffruticose plant about two feet high, with stiff, almost 

 sessile lanceolate leaves, and yellow flowers almost an inch in 

 diameter. Collected at the original locality, "Diamond Hill, 

 Oahu," where it grows on steep slopes. 



March 28 (2021). 



Lipochaeta connata (Gaud. ) DC. Prodr. 5:611. 1836. 

 Verbesina connata Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 464. 1830. 



DeCandolle's description of "suffruticosa, foliis sessilibus 

 connatis rhombeo-ovatis argute et grosse duplicato-serratis 

 supra scabris subtus dense hispidis," can apply only to my No. 

 2787, collected at the base of the plateau above Waimea, Kauai. 

 The plants are stout, four to five feet high, with harsh, thick, 

 connate leaves, which are somewhat variable in shape, some of 

 them being very long and linear lanceolate. 



August 31 (2787). 



Lipochaeta 



No. 2563, collected on Kauai near Hanapepe, is one of the 

 numerous plants referred to L. connata. It seems to answer 

 fairly well to Gray's L. australis var. decurrens. The stiff, 

 scabrous, ovate-lanceolate leaves are contracted into a broadly 

 winged petiole, instead of being connate. The plant is woody, 

 erect, about two feet high, and somewhat branched. It grows 

 along the road, on the edge of the precipitous bank of the Han- 

 apepe river, just outside of the town. Apparently the same 

 thing, but with thinner, and sharper serrated leaves, was col- 

 lected in a thicket in Hanapepe valley, some three miles above 

 the first station. Here it is more protected, which would ac- 

 count for the difference in growth. If not specilically distinct 

 from L. connata, it is certainly a well marked form. 



July to August (2563). 



