A shrub from 1 to 6 feet high, with woody stems and branches bearing broad seven-ribbed leaves in tufts, the long flower spikes arising from below the leaves. This plant is more singular than pretty. Found on West Maui at an elevation of 6000 feet, also behind Honolulu.

One of the most interesting plants of this group is the Argyroxiphium Douglasi, (Hooker) belonging to the natural order of Compositae, the arrangement of whose leaves resembles very much that of Bonapartea or Yucca, only more compact and very persistent, clothed with a white silky down which glistens in the sun. This is only to be met with on elevated and dry situations on Mauna Kea, as high as 10,000 to 12,000 feet, where we have met with it in such quantities that when viewed at a distance resembled very much a flock of sheep with their lambs. About the same elevation, but usually a little lower, we find that yellow flowering tree, Edwardsia chrysophylla,(Salisbury) which attains a height of 20 to 30 feet; its stem a diameter of 8 to 10 inches; altogether this resembles very much the E. grandiflora of New Zealand, but would, I think, be more hardy. Native name, Mamani.

There are many other notable plants to be found there, as an Exocarpus, very much resembling the E. cupressiformis of Australia. This produces "the cherry with the stone on the outside," as the Australians say, and which they reduce to a conserve.

On the island of Hawaii there is a species of Cyathodes, nearly related to a New Holland Epa-cris; very desirable. And in open glades grows the Osteomelis anthyllidifolia, a spreading bush nearly related to Mespilus, bearing clusters of white astringent berries; also a Freycinetia, a twin brother of Pandanus, only having a rambling habit, forming almost impassable thickets on high mountain ridges behind Honolulu, ascending to the tops of trees on the other islands; the surrounding flowers are of a pale orange color. A very ornamental plant.