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Only the sterile plant is in the collection. Some of the leaves being 

 " very broadly ovate, with a truncate subcordate base," as DeCandolle 

 (Syst. 1, p. 534) describes his G. discolor, from the Moluccas, I have 

 ventured to refer our plant, although with some misgiving, to that 

 species. But most of the leaves are distinctly cordate, or even reni- 

 form-cordate, and canescent with a fine pubescence underneath, al- 

 though glabrous above ; and the short peduncles, as well as the crowded 

 and cymulose, minute flowers, are very hirsute with spreading bristly 

 hairs. The corolla is a minute three-lobed cup, surrounding the base 

 of the androecium, which consists of four subsessile, peltately-disposed 

 anther-lobes. 



3. NEPHROICA, Miers. 

 Petdla bifida, lobis acutis vel acuminatis. — Gcetera omnino Cocculi. 



Nephroioa, Miers, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Jan. 1851. 

 Nephroia, Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (ed. Willd.) 2, p. 691. 



1. Nephroica Ferrandiana. 



N. ramulis retrorsum hirsutis; foliis subcoriaceis ovatis vel ovato-lanceo- 

 latis acuminatis nunc obtusis mucronatis basi obtusa rariusve subcor- 

 data 3—5-nerviis, adultis glabratis; peduncuMs pauci—pluriflorispetiolo 

 brevioribus. 



Gocculus Ferrandianus, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 477, t. 101 ; Walp. Eel. Meyen. 

 p. 268. 



Hab. Kaala Mountains, behind Honolulu, Oahu ; Districts of Puna 

 and Waimea, Hawaii; also on the mountains of Kauai, Sandwich 

 Islands. 



Stems herbaceous, slender, twining, hairy with a reflexed pubescence, 

 at length nearly glabrous. Leaves rather coriaceous, varying, often 

 on the same individual, from ovate and subcordate, sometimes obtuse 

 and retuse, to ovate-lanceolate, commonly acuminate, mucronate, some- 



