moss-covered tree-trunks. It is strongly hygrophytic. Native 

 names " Polielihca" and "Kalili." 



6. Viola Mauiensis Mann. Described in Enumeration of 

 Hawaiian Plants, no. ii, 1866. 



Stem simple, or dividing at the base, prostrate or ascending, 

 woody below, a few inches to 2 feet long. Its upper portion is 

 covered with dark brown, sharply cut, long-acuminate stipules, 

 and foliose near the ape.x. Leaves on petioles of about i inch, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, broadly ovate and obtuse or rounded, i~i}/2 

 in. diam., truncate or cuneate at the base, serrulate with callous 

 teeth. 



Scapes or peduncles 1-3 on a stem, 2-6 in. long, with 2 narrow 

 acute bracts about the middle, bearing an umbel of 2-4 flowers 

 on pedicels of i inch, which are again bracteolate. Sepals 

 narrow- lanceolate, 4 lines, purplish, scarcely produced at the 

 base. Petals twice as long, unguiculate, obovate, dark blue, 

 the lowest saccate. Anthers oblong, i-i/^ lines long, not mar- 

 gined, tipped with a short papilla, the 2 lowest broadly spurred. 

 Style curved, thickening toward the stigma. Capsule 6 lines 

 long, with 8-10 seeds to the placenta. 



Characteristic of the summit bog of West Maui, but also re- 

 corded from the Kawela swamps of East Molokai, 4,000 feet- 

 Strongly hygrophytic. 



7. V. Mauiensis var. Kohalana Rock. Described in College of 

 Hawaii Bulletin i, 191 1, p. 5. 



"Caudex 10-16 dm. long, woody, more or less prostrate. 

 Stipules ovate-lanceolate, reddish-brown. Leaves like the 

 species, on petioles of 2-7 cm. Peduncles blackish-blue when 

 with dark blue flowers, light yellow when with white flowers; 

 bearing umbels of blue or white flowers on bi-bracteolate pedicels 

 of 3-9 cm. length ; capsules as for the species." 



Recorded only from the summit bogs of the Kohala Moun- 

 tains, island of Hawaii, at altitudes of 4,600-5,200 feet. "The 

 flowers are very fragrant and large, the dark blue-flowered speci- 

 mens occurring down to an elevation of 4,600 feet, while the white 

 ones are found only higher up, 5,200 feet elevation. . . . This 

 variety differs from the species in its very long caudex, scapes, 

 and petioles, as well as pedicels and in its large flowers which are 

 also white." It grows both in the swampy soil and epiphytically 

 on mossv tree-trunks. 



