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3-15 mm. deep, the apex acute, the base 
deeply cordate, texture membranous, above 
pustulate scabrous, pale green, the veins 
lighter green, below densely pustulate sca- 
brous and on the veins scabrous puberulent, 
the margins appearing subentire but under a 
lens seen with a few veins ending in minute 
apiculate projections, palmately 3-nerved from 
the base, the lateral veins forking; blades of 
more vigorous juvenile branches 6.7-9. 5 cm. 
long, 6.2-11.3 cm. wide, suborbicular 3-5- 
lobed about halfway to base, the sinuses 
2.5-4 cm. deep, wide U-shaped, the margins 
subentire or few-dentate and remotely apicu- 
late denticulate; staminate panicle 1.5-9= 5 cm. 
long, glandular puberulent; peduncle 12-70 
mm. long; pedicels 2-7 mm. long, slender; 
bud much depressed suborbicular, 2-3 mm. 
in diameter, pale yellowish or whitish; peri- 
anth in anthesis rotate, 8-8.5 mm. in diame- 
ter, the tube 1.5 mm^long, almost rotate, the 
five lobes unequal, 3-3.5 mm. long, 1.8-2. 2 
mm. wide, broadly lance-ovate, capitate 
glandular puberulous without, minutely so 
within; staminal column 1.5 mm. tall; the 
five anthers 1 mm. long, hippocrepiform; 
pistillate inflorescences capitate, axillary; pe- 
duncles 10-15 mm. long, capitate glandular 
puberulent; pistillate flowers 9-13 in a head; 
corolla epigynous, shallow saucer-shaped or 
almost rotate, minutely capitate glandular 
puberulous without and even more minutely 
so within; the tube 1.2 mm. in diameter, the 
lobes 1 mm. long, elliptic ovate; style 1 mm. 
long, glabrous; stigma lobes 3, recurving, 
ligulate; ovary 3-5 mm. long, narrowly top- 
shaped, the lower third naked or but sparsely 
hirsutulous, the upper two-thirds covered 
with m.any fingerlike or thick spatulate proc- 
esses and each of these densely shaggy 
hirsute, the hairs at first minutely capitate 
glandular; fruiting heads 12-17 mm. in di- 
ameter, globose, densely hairy; fruits 6-7 mm. 
long, 5-6 mm. wide, 2-3.5 mm. thick, 
broadly lanceolate, the lower part white pu- 
berulent, the upper part covered with ascend- 
ing processes which are 1.5-3 mm. long, 
thick fingerlike or spatulate, simple or forked 
and densely shaggy catenulate gland-tipped 
hirsute; seed single, 3.9 mm. long, 3.5 mm. 
wide, 1.9 mm. thick, lenticular, the edges 
rounded, the testa pale yellow or brownish, 
hard, smooth, shining, the hilum 1.9-2 mm. 
long, raised, cartilaginous, white, shaped like 
two pairs of slightly open lips in a line. 
HOLOTYPUS: Niihau, 1 mile W. of Kii, 50 
ft. alt. (also common on Kaali cliff), grassy, 
sandy flats, elongate vine climbing Prosopis 
tree, leaves, pale green, veins lighter, stami- 
nate flowers white, March 29, 1949, H. St. 
John 25,367 (BISH). 
The closest known species is 5. pachycarpus 
H. & A. of Oahu which has the petioles 
glabrate; blades shallowly 5 -lobed; fruits 2.3- 
2.8 mm. wide and 1-1.8 mm. thick with the 
upper part glabrous; seed 2.8 mm. wide, and 
the hilum 0.8 mm. long. 5. niihauensis differs 
by having the petioles scabrous puberulent; 
blades shallowly palmately 3-lobed; fruits 5-6 
mm. wide, 2-3.5 mm. thick, and the upper 
part covered with ascending fingerlike proc- 
esses, densely glandular hirsute; seeds 3.5 
mm. wide, and the hilum 1.9-2 mm. long. 
LOBELIACEAE 
Delissea niihauensis^ sp. nov. 
Fig. 8 
DIAGNOSIS HOLOTYPI: Frutex, caule 1-2 cm. 
diametro glabro, cicatricibus 9-10 mm. lads 
4-5 mm. aids aggregads stramineis depresso- 
scutelliformis, fasdculis 8-11 exsertis in ellipse 
disponids, internodis reductis ad oras inter 
cicatrices congregatis, foliis glabris in fasci- 
cule terminal! denso aggregads, pedolis ple- 
rumque divergentibus 2-4 cm. longis sed in 
sicco 1-1.5 mm. diametro, laminis 5. 5-7. 5 
cm. longis 3.4-5 cm. lads chartaceis late 
ovatis apice acuto margioibus crenatis nervis 
lateralibus ad apicem diffuse ramosis, costa 
paulo recurvata sed lateribus foliae adscenden- 
tibus, inflorescendis axillaribus mulds tam 
numerosis quam petiolos obscurantur, cymis 
