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3. SCHIEDEA NlTTTALLII, Hocik. 



S. glaberrima ; panicula ampla ramosissima patentissima ; foliis breviter 

 petiolatis oblongis ovatis seu ovato-lanceolatis crassiusculis obscure pen- 

 ninerviis; sepalis ovatis acuminatw capsula brevioribus; seminibus 

 tubercidatis. 



JSchiedea Nuttallii, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 649, 650; Walp. Repert. 5, p. 789. 

 Eucladus suffruticosus, Nutt. in herb. Hook. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands ; on rocks, near Honolulu ; where it 

 was also collected by Nuttall, and recently by B. Seemann, in the 

 cruise of the British surveying ship, Herald. Also on the mountains 

 of the west side of Maui ? (the specimen not in flower) . 



Plant entirely glabrous. Stems branched from the base, suffruticose, 

 2 or 3 feet high; the branchlets spreading, angled. Leaves of a thick 

 texture, opposite, 2 or 3 inches long, and 12 to 18 lines wide, or the 

 lower considerably larger, oblong, ovate, or the upper ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse and abruptly apiculate, the lower rounded, the upper mostly 

 acute at the base, short-petioled, marked with a rather prominent 

 midrib, but with no lateral nerves, obscurely pinnately-veined. Panicle 

 terminal, compound, deliquescent, ample, sometimes a foot long, diffusely 

 spreading ; the slender branches elongated, divergent, subtended by 

 small ovate-subulate bracts, or the lowest by small leaves. Pedicels 

 capillary, 3 to 6 lines long, glabrous. Calyx a line and a half long, 

 five-parted; the sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather fleshy, with 

 whitish hyaline margins, persistent. Staminodia, stamens, pistil, &c, 

 nearly as in the other species of the genus. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 longer than the calyx, three-valved, few-seeded. Seeds tuberculate- 

 roughened. Embryo curved around the farinaceous albumen into 

 almost a complete ring. 



This species and the next are undoubted congeners of the preceding 



ones, notwithstanding the effuse paniculate cymes, and the acute 



sepals. There is only a single and poor flowering specimen of S. 



Nuttallii in the collection. 



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