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PACIFIC SCIENCE, VoL VI, July, 1952 
DESCRIPTION OF TYPE: Shrub; 1-2 m. tall, 
older branches 1.5-3. 5 mm. in diameter; bark 
of older branches with long persistent stipules, 
but later rather smooth, gray, checked with 
longitudinal and a few lateral fissures; leaf 
scars 0.7-1. 3 mm. wide, depressed rounded 
shield-shaped, prominent, pale, with 3 bundle 
scars; twigs leafy for 3-15 mm., bearing 6-9 
leaves, rather crowded, diverging; upper 
leafy stem 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, dark red- 
dish, glabrous, almost completely covered by 
the closely imbricate stipules; nodes 2-10 
mm., commonly 3 mm. apart; stipules 2.8- 
3.3 mm. long, broadly ovate-deltoid, with the 
slender midrib thickened and raised and ap- 
pressed puberulous, the wide sides brown 
membranous, the margins ciliolate; petioles 
5-10 mm. long, 0.3 mm. in diameter, slender 
and white puberulent; blades 2-6.4 cm. long, 
10-29 mm. wide, narrowly ovate-elliptic to 
lanceolate or even narrowly lanceolate, char- 
taceous, sparsely appressed puberulent, espec- 
ially on the veins, secondary veins 6-8 on a 
side, sharply ascending, diffusing to the mar- 
gin and interconnections, the apex obtuse or 
short mucronate, above dark green, below 
paler, the margin obscurely low serrulate; 
flowers single, axillary; peduncle 2-5 mm. 
long, appressed puberulent, bibracteolate at 
summit; pedicels 2-4 mm. long, appressed 
puberulent; sepals subequal, 4-5 mm. long, 
the thickened wide central strip densely ap- 
pressed puberulent, appearing like one big 
midrib but containing 5 buried veins, the 
narrow sides thin, greenish or brownish, 
glabrous except for the ciliolate margins; 
corolla greenish, irregular, the lower two 
thirds of the petals forming a channel-like 
claw, the limb expanding and reflexing in 
anthesis; lower petal the largest, 12.8 mm. 
long (when boiled), contracted two thirds 
way from the base; claw almost ligulate but 
tapering slightly at base, 3-nerved from the 
base, the margins membranous, but the cen- 
tral strip thickened, fleshy, opaque, channeled, 
limb narrowly elliptic, 5.2 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide, thickish at the very base, but beyond 
that thin petaloid and translucent; lateral 
petals 10.9 mm. long, strongly contracted 
two thirds way from the base, the claw oblong 
elliptic, 6.9 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide, 3- 
nerved from the base, the margins mem- 
branous, the central strip opaque, thick, fleshy, 
firmly channeled, the limb 4 mm. long, 1.7 
mm. wide, narrowly elliptic, pilosulous with- 
out, thick, fleshy, opaque, the margin wavy; 
upper petals 11.1 mm. long, contracted 3/5 
way from the base, the claw 1.5 mm. wide, 
oblong-elliptic, 3-nerved, the wide margins 
membranous, the central strip gradually 
thickening upwards to the throat which is 
fleshy, opaque and strongly channeled, the 
limb 4.7 mm. long, 1.7 mm. wide, narrowly 
elliptic, firm, fleshy, opaque; stamens equal, 
2.8 mm. long; filament ligulate with a broad 
nerve, at the middle this has a deltoid en- 
largement which supports a distal surface 
swelling bearing minute short glandular hairs, 
hence a nectary, apex of filament and base of 
connective joining in a cruciform enlarge- 
ment as broad as the anther; connective nar- 
rowing upwards, and on the lower stamens 
bearing a prominent hamate prickle; anthers 
1.5 mm. long, ovate in outline, the anther 
sacs narrowly elliptic-oblong, salient pointed 
at the base; ovary 2 mm. long, ovoid, lightly 
3-ribbed; style 5 mm. long, sinuous, terete, 
stigma oblique; capsule 12 mm. long, ovoid, 
deeply 3-furrowed, glabrous, greenish, strong- 
ly veined, beaked by the persistent style; 
seeds 3.2 mm. long, 1.8-2. 2 mm. in diameter, 
obovoid, olive brown, the apex truncate, 
sunken. 
TYPUS: lies Sandwich, Hawaii, 1851-1855, 
/. Remy 333 (GH), (st. If. fl.). An isotype 
(Paris) bears more data on an original ticket: 
"Violacee. (Vahinenohokula), Janvier, Bords 
du chemin dans le Kekaha, sur le lave de- 
compose au pied du Hualalai, Hawaii, attenu 
de 3 a 6 pied, fl. verdatre.” 
J. Remy (the correct spelling of his name, 
though on his printed labels the ''e” was not 
accented) was in Hawaii for 5 years, long 
enough to learn to speak and write Hawaiian. 
