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G-en Coffeao. with EricoiJ foliage, (No. 1). Leaves opposite and fasciculate ; calyx 4-fid ; 

 corolla inconspicuous; stigmas very long; berry black, glutinous, containing two seeds, 

 and in one instance (unless the reference belongs to the next plant), observed double 

 as in Mitchella. Abounding around the Great Crater, where the berries are covered 

 with threads of the capillary obsidian ; occurring also on Mauna Roa, to the elevation 

 of 6700 feet. On Mauna Kea, to the elevation of 10,500 feet. And on Mauna Halea- 

 kala, from the elevation of 3500 to 5500 feet, but somewhat rare. 



Gen. Coifeac. ? dioecious?, (bis No. 2 lower down). On Mauna Roa, to the elevation of 

 6500 feet; where it is a shrub, presenting nothing of the gnarled mountain aspect, the 

 fruit orange-colored and not beaked. On Mauna Kea, twelve feet high at the eleva- 

 tion of 8700 feet, and extending to the elevation of 10,500 feet. On Mauna Halea- 

 kala, from the elevation of 5500 to 9500 feet, where it continues frequent. 



Dubautia (No. 5). A shrub, six feet high ; leaves verticillate in threes, entire, 3-ribbed ; 

 involucral scales uniserial. Upper base of Mauna Roa, at the elevation of about 4000 

 feet. Apparently the same species, a uiulticaul shrub two to six feet high, on Mauna 

 Haleakala from the elevation of 5500 to 9500 feet, where it continues frequent. 



; perhaps not distinct from the last ; the leaves opposite, not verticillate; the stems 



more hairy. In the pastoral district on Mauna Kea. 



(No. 6). Two feet high ; resembling (No. 5), but the leaves denticulate and 



broader ; flowers small. " Leeward side of the Great Crater, commencing at the 

 elevation of 1200 feet," Brackenridge. 



nov. sp. (No. 7). Protea-like ; cinereous ; the leaves verticillate in threes, broad, 



with short pubescence ; the young shoots also pubescent. On Mauna Kea, from the 

 elevation of 9500 to 11,500 feet; at the first-named limit, sometimes a tree, twenty feet 

 high with the trunk nine inches in diameter, the branches overhanging, the leaves 

 pubescent trinerved and pointed, and the flowers small. 



(No. 8). A small tree, twenty feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter ; the 



young shoots pubescent; leaves narrow-ovate, obtuse, 3-5-nerved ; the florets more 

 numerous. Growing in company, or rather, alternating with the scattered Edwardsia 

 trees in the pastoral district on Mauna Kea. 



(No. 9) ; leaves broad, green on both sides ; flowers small. In the pastoral dis- 

 trict on Mauna Kea. 



nov. sp., (No. 10) ; leaves broad, glutinous. On the summit of the dividing 



ridge in the crater-like cleft of Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of about 7500 feet. — 

 In general, the whorled species of Dubautia seemed more peculiarly to belong to the 

 Mountain-region. 



Dubautioid (No. 1); bayonet-shaped leaves, decussate, stellate or verticillate in fives, the 

 under surface green. On Mauna Roa, from the elevation of 6400 to 9100 feet. (No 

 specimens). 



Stevia? (No. 1). One to two feet, decumbent; leaves alternate, entire, or sometimes with 

 a few coarse serratures ; the flowering stem nearly destitute of leaves. Frequent in the 



Mauna Roa, at the elevation of about 5600 feet. Apparently the same species, growing 

 on Mauna Haleakala at the elevation of 7000 feet; and on the barren Leeward verge 

 of the table-land of Tauai. Introduced by colonial Whites. 



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