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states of the species were collected; at the latter locality also the 

 (probably abnormal) form with elongated styles, some of them 5 or 6 

 lines in length ! Similar specimens were gathered at Oahu by Gaudi- 

 chaud, in the Voyage of the Bonite. 



2. DODON^A SPATHULATA, Smith. 

 Dodoncea spalhulata, Smith, in Rees' Cycl. no. 2 ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 616. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. On the mountains of Hawaii, near the 

 crater Lua Pele, and on Mouna Loa, at the elevation of 8,000 feet. 

 Mountains of Maui, on the eastern side (a narrow-leaved variety) . 



Although it would be difficult to point out any absolute characters, 

 yet I cannot but regard the specimens before me as belonging to a 

 species different from D. viscosa; and I presume they are rightly 

 referred to Smith's D. spathulata, which is said to be smaller than the 

 former. The leaves, in our numerous specimens, vary from an inch 

 to at most 2 inches in length, and from spatulate-obovate to narrowly 

 oblanceolate, the apex mucronate, the base tapering into a short 

 petiole; their texture dry and rather coriaceous; the surface often 

 somewhat furfuraceous, probably from the exsiccation of the viscous 

 exudation. The racemes or corymbs are simple, short, and few- 

 flowered. The orbicular fruits are pretty broadly winged, half an 

 inch or more in diameter, glabrous or nearly so, with scarcely any 

 notch at the base, but with a deep and very broad one at the apex. 

 The style is usually very short ; but in one instance I find it elon- 

 gated, as in the peculiar state of D. viscosa, mentioned above. 



3. Dodoncea eriocarpa, Smith, I. cJ 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. District of Waimea, Hawaii. 



To this I doubtfully refer two imperfect specimens, entirely des- 

 titute of fruit, but with minutely hairy branchlets, &c, which I 

 should have taken as a form of D. viscosa. None of our specimens 

 from the interior of the Sandwich Islands exhibit a pubescent or 

 hairy fruit. 



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