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anthers 4.5-6 mm. long; penicillate brush 1- 
1.3 mm. long; berry 10-12 mm. in diameter. 
In contrast, D. niihauensis has the blades 5.5- 
7.5 cm. long, 3.4-5 cm. wide, broadly ovate, 
crenate; petioles 2-4 cm. long; calyx teeth 
deltoid, hirsutulous; corolla 22-25 mm. long, 
with one conspicuous dorsal and two lateral 
knobs; anthers 6-8.5 mm. long, the penicil- 
late brush 1.5-2 mm. long; berry 6-7 mm. 
in diameter. 
Rock { 1919 a: 353, 357) lists two of his own 
collections, 3,950 and 10,053, from the west- 
ern side of the island of Hawaii, simple 
stalked trees more than 30 feet high, and 
relates his surprise at finding these on Hualalai, 
Puuwaawaa, and Pulehua. A similar specimen, 
Forbes 265. H, from Kanahaha, Kona, Hawaii, 
has recently been described as Cyanea arguti- 
dentata E. Wimm. Its only two mature flowers 
scarcely show the single gibbous corolla 
hump, but it is evident on the flowers of 
other collections of what, is considered the 
same species, all from Kona, Hawaii: Puu- 
waawaa, Rock 5,960; Pulehua, Mauna Loa, 
Roc^ 10,065, and Kanehaha ( = Kanahaha) 
Forbes 264. H; and Hanehane, Forbes I96.H. 
For the latter there is a drawing showing the 
single, proximal gibbous swelling at the apex 
of the corolla tube, and recording the swelling 
as red, while the lower part of the corolla as 
white, the upper part with reddish dots, the 
corolla lobes, filament tube apex, and stigmas 
pea green. Since this population has the 
technical characters, the following transfer 
is proposed. 
Delissea argutidentata (E. Wimm.) comb, 
nov. 
Cyanea argutidentata E. Wimm., Engler’s 
Pflanzenreich IV, 276b(l): 16-16, fig. 21, 
1943. 
HOLOTYPE: Hawaii, "Wald unterhalb Koa 
Kanehaha-Kona, bliihend im Juni (C. N. 
Forbes n. 263 H)” (BISH). This was a trans- 
lation by Wimmer of the original data: Grow- 
ing in the forest under koa, Kanehaha 
( = Kanahaha), Kona, June 26, I 9 II. J. F. 
Rock has subsequently redetermined Wim- 
mer’s species as Delissea undulata Gaud., re- 
affirming his opinion of the Hawaiian plants 
expressed in his monograph of 1919. That 
grouped the diverse plants of Kauai, Niihau, 
Maui, and Hawaii as one species. The writer 
here shows that the holotype was from West 
Maui, a plant having flowers with three gib- 
bous humps; that the Kauai record is dubious; 
that the Niihau one is a new species, D. 
niihauensis; and that the one from Hawaii 
having calyx lobes 1-2 mm. long, and usually 
smaller, shorter leaves is still a different one, 
D. argutidentata. This latter is very close to 
D. fallax Hbd. from the Hilo region on east- 
ern Hawaii, which is known only from the 
type collection and shows calyx lobes "about 
3 mm. long.” When more collections are 
found to represent D. fallax, its placement 
should probably again be re-examined. Con- 
cerning the other segregates, the evidence is 
more abundant, and the conclusions more 
certain. 
A close examination of Forbes’s field note- 
books reveals that his no. 265. H was an un- 
determined grass, and that no. 264. H is the 
correct number of this collection of Fobelia- 
ceae. Forbes himself made the correction on 
one sheet (BISH), but the duplicate sent to 
Wimmer went under the number 265. H. Thus 
the holotypic collection of D. argutidentata 
should now read Kanehaha ( = Kanahaha). 
COMPOSITAE 
Lipochaeta kawaihoaensis sp. nov. 
(§ Fipochaeta) 
Fig. 9 
NOM. VERN.: "ko’oko’olau.” 
DIAGNOSIS HOLOTYPi: Perennis suffruticosa 
erecta 3-8 dm. alta, corona pluri-ramifera, 
caulibus principalibus griseis deinde brunneis 
longitudinaliter sulcatis multi-ramosis in basi 
2-7 mm. diametro, ramis lateralibus anguste 
pluri-angulosis adpresso-hispidulosis late di- 
vergentibus, petiolis 4-18 mm. longis gracili- 
