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nervoso marginibus membranaceis, petalis 
lateralibus 10 mm. longis anguste spatulatis 
limbis 2.8 mm. longis 1.5 mm. latis ovatis 
firmis valde pinnati-nervosis, unguibus 7 mm. 
longis 1.3 mm. latis canaliculatis in medio 
firmis 3-nervosis marginibus membranaceis, 
petalis superioribus angustiore spatulatis 
limbis 2 mm. longis 1.5 mm. latis ellipticis 
firmis, unguibus 7.2 mm. longis 1.3 mm. 
latis 3-nervosis firmis canaliculatis marginibus 
membranaceis, staminibus subaequalibus, 
filamentis 0.8-1 mm, longis 0.2 mm. latis in 
basi planis attenuatis, antheris 0.9 mm. longis 
0.5 mm. latis sagittato-ovatis, connectivo 
armato in apice aculeam incurvatam 0.2 mm. 
longam ferrentibus, capsulis 8-11 mm. longis 
ovoideis profunde 3-lobatis apice rostrato, 
placentis 4-ovuliferis biseminiferis, seminibus 
3-3.5 mm. longis 2-2.2 mm. diametro obo- 
vatis olivaceo-brunneis sublucidis in apice 
truncatis excavatis. 
DESCRIPTION OF ALL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Shrub; branches often erect and simple, the 
older branches 3-4 mm. in diameter, bark 
reddish brown with many close longitudinal 
fissures, finally somewhat corky and gray, the 
nodes prominent and salient; internodes 1-10 
mm. long, the younger rigidly scaly from the 
persistent stipules; leaf scars 1.3-1. 8 mm. 
wide, depressed obcordate; bundle scar 1, 
broad lunate; small twigs appressed puberu- 
lent and, even well below the leaves, rough 
from the stiff, persistent stipules; young 
branchlets leafy for a distance of only 5-15 
mm., the bark appressed puberulent but this 
almost completely concealed by the overlap- 
ping stipules; the leaves 4-9, ascending or 
spreading in a close terminal plume; stipules 
3.9-5 mm. long, 1.4-1. 8 mm. wide, obliquely 
ovate or oblong-lanceolate, with a heavy, 
thickened, pale midrib and dark brown body, 
appressed puberulent on midrib and central 
strip, the membranous margin ciliolate; 
petioles 3-5 mm. long, appressed puberu- 
lous; blades 1. 3-5.0 cm. long, 8-28 mm. 
wide, oval, chartaceous, more or less per- 
manently appressed puberulous on the veins. 
apex short apiculate or obtuse, margins apic- 
ulate crenulate; flowers axillary, numerous; 
peduncles 2-4 mm. long; pedicels single, 5- 
8 mm. long, closely appressed puberulous, at 
the apex of the peduncle bearing two sub- 
opposite bracts like the stipules but ovate, 
3-4 mm. long; sepals 3-4 mm. long, ovate, 
appressed white puberulous on the enormous 
midrib, the sides membranous, brown, the 
margins ciliolate; corolla irregular, the lower 
three fifths of the petals forming a concave 
channel-like claw, the limb expanding and 
reflexing in anthesis, the outer surface ap- 
pressed puberulent along the veins; lower 
petal longer and larger than the others, spatu- 
late, 11 mm. long (when boiled), the limb 3 
mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, oval, thick and 
fleshy, the halves down-curved to the narrow 
median crease, the apex retuse and revolute; 
claw 7.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, rather firm, 
concave and channeled, 5 -nerved from the 
base, the margin membranous; lateral petals 
10 mm. long, narrowly spatulate, the limb 
2.8 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, ovate, firm, 
strongly pinnate nerved, the claw 7 mm. long, 
1.3 mm. wide channeled, the body firm, the 
margins membranous, 3-nerved at base; upper 
petals 8.3 mm. long, very narrowly spatulate, 
the limb 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, elliptic, 
firm, the claw 7.2 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, 
the margins membranous, the rest firm, 
channeled, 3-nerved at base; stamens sub- 
equal, filaments 0.8-1 mm. long, 0.2 mm. 
wide at base, flat, tapering upwards; anthers 
0.9 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, sagittate-ovate, 
the connective bearing from the distal side of 
its apex a firm, incurved prickle 0.2 mm. long; 
capsule 8-11 mm. long, ovoid, deeply 3- 
furrowed, the apex tapering into the per- 
sistent style, the placentae 4-ovuled, the at- 
tachment in two oblique pairs, 2-seeded; 
seeds 3-3.5 mm. long 2-2.2 mm. wide, obo- 
vate, the apex truncate, sunken, the surface 
olive brown, sublucid. 
TYPUS: Lanai, collected by Dr. William 
Hillehrand and /. M. Lydgate, ex Herb. J. M. 
Lydgate (BISH), (st. If. fl. fr.). 
