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defile across West Maui. The same species ? on the mountains behind Honolulu. — 

 Young Phyllostegias creeping on the base of ti'ees, sometimes resembled small lobed- 

 leaved species of Hydrocotyle. 

 Nov. gen. Phyllostegioid, (No. 1). Rigid, upright, " eighteen inches to two feet high ;" 

 leaves large ; racemes below the leaves, bristly ; flowers deep violet, and ornamental ; 

 calyx dividing into five narrow equal lobes. " Woods in the district of Puna," rather 

 rare, Brackenridge. 



G-en. Durantoid, (No. 1). Decumbent, with the branches upright, and two to three feet 

 high ; flowers labiate, blue, ornamental. Tauai ; and in the sands of the low isthmus 

 on Maui. 



Plumbago (No. 3 ; compare No. 2 Feejee Islands) ; furfuraceous beneath. Tauai, and 

 elsewhere. 



Boerhaavia (compare Paumotuan to Phoenix and Wake's coral-islands). Prostrate, smooth; 

 having small and purple flowers. Maritime ; growing on rocks on the Southeast coast 

 of Hawaii. 



Pisonia (No. 1). Arborescent, becoming a small tree ; seen wild, and often reserved. 

 Oahu, and elsewhere ; the birdlime used by the natives was said to be procured from 

 this plant. 



Plantago (No. 1). Smooth; stem a foot high; leaves broad, 7-ribbed, the petioles ani- 

 plexicaul at base ; spikes from below the leaves. Maritime; growing among stones by 

 the sea-side, at the Northern base of Mauna Kea. 



• Queleniana, (No. 2). A shrub; usually upright, but sometimes trailing. On the 



mountains behind Honolulu. — Apparently the same species in West Maui, with larger 

 leaves; and again, six to ten feet long with the stem half an inch in diameter, on the 

 North flank of Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of 6700 feet. 



Gen. Alternantheroid ?, (No. 1) ; but the leaves opposite. A shrub, four to five feet high. 

 " Near the sea. South of the Great Crater," Brackenridge. 



Achyranthes (No. 8) ; very woolly. Oahu; and near Lahaina on West Maui. 



Charpentiera (No. 1) ; leaves large, penninerved, ovate, obtuse at base. On the moun- 

 tains behind Honolulu. 



(No. 2); a second species. Smaller, with smaller flowers; leaves elliptical, lan- 

 ceolate. On the Mauna Kaala ridge. 



Chenopodium (No. 1). Stem sufl'ruticose, or even woody at base. On the arid leeward 

 portion of Oahu. 



Phytolacca (No. 1) ; referred by Hooker to P. Abyssinica, (if correctly, the species has 

 been misnamed). Ilambling; leaves when fresh, strongly and remarkably reticulate, 

 - but this character disappears in drying; styles about five; berries reddish. On the 



Piper methysticum, (bis No. 6 Samoa to the Feejee Islands). Seen under cultivation on 



the South flank of Mauna Kaala ; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 Canna Indica, (bis Taheiti to the Feejee Islands, and No. 1 Brazil and Lower Peru); 



scarlet flowers. Said to have been "brought from China by the way of Maui." Seen 



only in the Mission garden at Hilo. 

 (No. 5 Tropical America) ; a second species. Yellow-flowered ; and " the only 



kind cultivated here in former times." Naturalized in the gorge leading back from 



Honolulu. 



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