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Fig. 10. Isodendrion molokaiense. a, Habit XV 2 ; b, stipules X 8; r, sepals X 2; d, lower petalX2; e, lateral petal X 2; 
/, upper petal X2; g, lower stamen X4; h, pistil X4. From the type, Molokai, Remy 533. 
0.1 mm. longo, ovario 1.5 mm. longo oblique 
lanceoloideo glabro, stylo 5.7 mm. longo 
tereto pallido glabro, stigmate orbicular! ob- 
liquo; fructu ignoto. 
DESCRIPTION OF TYPE: Shrub; older branch- 
es 3-5 mm. in diameter, the bark gray, longi- 
tudinally ridged, roughened by prominent 
nodes and persistent stipular bases; leaf scars 
1.2-1. 8 mm. wide, depressed obcordate; 
bundle scars 3; twigs leafy for 5-10 cm., 
bearing 10-18 leaves, these crowded; upper 
leafy stem 1-2 mm. in diameter, dark reddish 
green, puberulent, at least the upper part con- 
cealed by the imbricate stipules; nodes 2-12 
mm. apart; stipules 4.2-5 mm. long, 2. 3-2. 5 
mm. wide, deltoid to oblong-deltoid, the 
midrib much widened below, thick and 
densely appressed white pilosulous distally, 
the sides membranous, drying brown, gla- 
brous, the margins closely pilosulous ciliate; 
petioles 4-9 mm. long, 0. 5-0.8 mm. in dia- 
meter, appressed white puberulent; blades 
22-52 mm. long, 16-26 mm. wide, firm 
chartaceous, ovate, acute, the base rounded, 
above dark green and puberulent, with a few 
hairs appressed along the midrib, below pale 
green and finely reticulate, sparsely appressed 
white puberulent; inflorescences 1-flowered, 
axillary; peduncle 4 mm. long, appressed 
pilosulous, at apex with two stipule-like 
bracts -3. 5-4. 5 mm. long; pedicel 2 mm. long, 
appressed pilosulous; sepals 4-4.6 mm. long, 
oblong ovate, the very heavy, triangular mid- 
rib densely white appressed pilosulous and 
excurrent as an acute tip, the pale or brownish 
margins pilosulous ciliate; corolla irregular, 
the lower two thirds of the petals forming a 
concave channel-like claw, the limb reflexing 
