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Sc^voLA * con'acefl; shrubby, low and decumbent, branches ascending; axills 

 sericeous; leaves short, oboval, obtuse, entire, thick and coriaceous, attenuated 

 below; peduncles axillary and terminal, one to three-flowered, the germ bi- 

 bracteolate; calyx almost an entire margin, corolla bearded within, externally 

 smooth. 



Hab. On the island of Atooi, near the sea. A very low decumbent shrub, with cuneate-oval, ' 

 very thick, coriaceous leaves, not much larger than those of Box. Flower white, larger than the 

 last, unilormly bearded within. Stile or stigma hirsute, the latter densely bearded. Drupe two- 

 celled, two-seeded. The calyx a slightly crenate cup. The leaf scarcely an inch long, and about 

 half an inch wide. Branches with a white and rough bark, the ascending ones about half a foot 

 high. 



SciEvoLA Higustrifolia; shrubby and smooth, with slender leafy branches; 

 axills of the young leaves shortly bearded; leaves lanceolate, at either end acu- 

 minate, serrulate or nearly entire; peduncles axillary, dichotomal, filiform 

 and compressed, as long or longer than the leaves; flower very long, and nearly 

 smooth externally; calyx very shortly and obtusely five-toothed, pubescent; 

 bractes linear, persistent; indusium of the stigma smooth and ciliate, the style 

 pubescent. 



Hab. In Oahu; common in the mountains near Honolulu. Flowers rather showy and elegant, 

 white, continuing in a long succession. Every part of the plant smooth, except the calyx, axills, 

 and the exterior of the flower-bud, which are slightly pubescent. Leaves about two and a half 

 inches long, and three quarters of an inch wide. Flower more than an inch long, internally pu- 

 bescent on the tube. Calyx with five shallow teeth; anthers smooth. The stigma pubescent within 

 the smooth margin. Nut two-celled. Allied to S. Charaisgoniana, but the leaves are never 

 toothed, and the older leaves have naked axills. 



SojEVOLA *pnhescens; shrubby, leaves and branches pubescent; and axills 

 shortly pilose; leaves lanceolate, acuminate at either end, sessile, repandly 

 dentate, the dentures glandular, peduncles dichotomal, compressed, nearly as 

 long as the leaves, bractes linear, lanceolate; corolla elongated, the tube smooth, 

 bearded v^^ithin as well as the style; berry smooth, two-celled, two-seeded. 



Hab. Woods of Oahu, near Honolulu: rare. Apparently allied to <5. mo//is. Leaves thinly pu- 

 bescent, except when young, green; about three and a half inches long and about an inch wide: 

 the axills minutely bearded. Flower white, a little more than an inch long. The border a little 

 pubescent externally. Calyx of five pubescent short teeth. Bractes longer than the berry, per- 

 sistent, the former bluish when ripe; peduncles about two and a half inches long, twice forked, 

 six to nine or more flowered. A very elegant and ornamental species. 



