130 MANN, 



8. S. SPERGULiNA Q-vay. {Enum. No. 32.) Shrubby at the base, 

 about 2° high, erect, much branched and very leafy, glabrous. Leaves 

 spreading, approximate, and usually with smaller ones fascicled in 

 their axils, filiform, 2' long and only h" wide, 1-nerved, channelled 

 above, mucronulate. Inflorescence much like that of *S^. ligustrina. 

 Bracts of the lower part of the thyrsus like the leaves; of the 

 upper, short, and ovate-subulate. Peduncles and pedicels minutely 

 pubescent, 1" - 2" long. Calyx about 1" long ; the sepals ovate, obtuse, 

 rather fleshy, nearly nerveless, very slightly pubescent near the base. 

 Capsule ovoid, 3-valved, a little longer than the calyx. Seeds several, 

 the testa obscurely tuberculate or roughened, nearly smooth. 



Kauai. Lauai. 



9. S. Eemyi H. Mann. {Enum. No. 33.) Barely shrubby at the 

 base. The lower leaves very narrowly linear, 2' -3' long, 1" wide, 

 with smaller ones often fascicled in their axils, the upper ones subulate, 

 all thin and flat, 1-nerved. Thyrsus much contracted and crowded, 

 minutely pubescent. Sepals a line or less in length, ovate, obtuse, 

 many-nerved. Styles 4-5, rather long. Capsule ovoid, shorter than 

 the calyx. Seeds numerous, very nearly smooth. 



Molokai. 



10. S. GLOBOSA If. ilfa?m. QEnum. No. M.) Low and herbaceous, 

 pruinose-puberulent on the upper part of the stem and on the inflores- 

 ceuse, otherwise glabrous. The simple branches rising from the base, 

 a span to a foot high, bearing 4-5 pairs of leaves. The lower leaves 

 obovate-lauceolate from a narrowed sessile base, somewhat fleshy, 

 about 4' long and 1' wide, 3-5-nerved, the upper diminished into small 

 subulate bract-like 3-nerved leaves but 10" long and l"-2" wide. The 

 upright stem bearing a compact globose thyrsus (rarely with two late- 

 ral ones) of an inch in diameter, composed of numerous many-flowered 

 short cymules. Sepals ovate, obtuse, nerved below the middle, Ik" 

 long, shorter than the 4-valved ovate-lanceolate capsule. Staminodia 

 very short, blunt, entire, of about the length of the stamens. Seeds 

 few, larger than in the other preceding species, and tuberculate rough- 

 ened. 



In the region of Koko Point, Oahu. 

 11. S. viscosA H. Mann. (Enum. No. 35.) Suff'ruticose, decum- 

 bent and spreading, with branches 2° - 3° long, sending up somewhat 

 erect flowering stems 8' -11' high. "Whole plant covered with a glan- 

 dular pubescence, especially viscous on the peduncles and pedicels. 

 Leaves li'-l|'long, 4" -5" wide, evenly tapering at each end to a 

 sharp point, borne on a margined petiole 2" long, and becoming gla- 

 brate on the upper surface with age, nerved with three well-marked 



