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Hab. Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, Sandwich Islands; on the moun- 

 tains, a. Aleala, Hawaii ; a small form. j3. Mouna Loa ; a common 

 shrub from the crater of Lua Pele to the elevation of 8,000 feet. 

 Mountains of Kauai ; a very small form, without flowers, y. Mouna 

 Kea; also Mouna Loa, with the preceding form; abundant through 

 the region of Edwardsia. East part of Maui, on the banks of the 

 crater Haleakala. 



A shrub, one or two feet or more in height, much branched ; the 

 foliage very variable as to size and pubescence. Branches glabrate, 

 or the younger ones cinereous, at least in vars. /?. and y,, thickly 

 beset with the scaly and persistent stipules. These are subulate from 

 their dilated and connate bases, as in the foregoing species. Leaves 

 crowded on the branchlets, coriaceous in texture, from 5 to 12, or even 

 18 lines long, and from 3 to 6, or 9 lines wide, wedge-shaped,, with the 

 apex truncate, or very obtuse, and 3-5-toothed, tapering to an acute 

 base, the sides entire, strongly 5-7 r -nerved; the nerves parallel, simple, 

 or very sparingly forked at their apex. Their surface is either gla- 

 brous or glabrate (very minutely pubescent under a lens), and green, 

 as in the var. a. ; or silvery -white, with a fine silky pubescence under- 

 neath, while the upper surface is green and glabrous or nearly so,' as 

 in var. (3.; or else silvery-whitened and shining both sides, as in var. y. 

 Petioles 2 or 3 lines in length. Peduncles terminal or opposite the 

 leaves, shorter than the leaves, or often elongated, cymosely several- 

 (5-1 2-) flowered, or by abortion 1-3-flowered ; the peduncles or branches 

 of the cyme being pluribracteate. Bracts subulate, small. Pedicels 

 3 to 8 lines long. Sepals 2 or 3 lines long, ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 barely mucronulate, nearly glabrous in the smooth-leaved form, in 

 the others silky-canescent. Petals white, obovate, 4 or 5 lines in 

 length. Hypogynous glands minute, hairy. Stamens as in G. multi- 

 florum; but the filaments rather more hairy at their dilated base. 

 Ovary and beak minutely pubescent. Styles little prolonged beyond 

 the beak, their summits distinct; in fruit recurved from the base, 

 glabrous inside. Seed smooth and glabrous, very minutely striate- 

 reticulated under a lens. 



The specimen gathered by Menzies, in Vancouver's voyage, and 

 figured by Hooker, resembles the more common form of our var. 



hololeucum, except that the leaves are wholly glabrate. The speci- 



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