Mohihi

Stenogyne scrophularioides Bentham

Stenogyne scrophularioides Bentham, Bot. Reg. 15, no. 1292, n. 88, 1830.

SPECIMEN SEEN.—Hawaii I.: Hilo, in woods, 28 Feb. 1887, Rev. T. S. Lea (BM).

This sterile sheet is of a slender herbaceous climber, tending to root at the nodes, with opposite exstipulate leaves, palmately tripartite to the base, the segments deeply lobed and the lobes of the lateral segments lobed again; stems squarish, pilose in lines. The long petioles conspicuously hirsute pilose, blades pilosulous and beset with sessile glands. At first this specimen was not placed even to family, but on a hunch was compared with Stenogyne. At Kew a specimen, Hillebrand 351, shows a series of stages from having the leaves ovate and undissected, with crenate-serrate margins, to almost as dissected as those of the Lea specimen, indicating that the latter is probably a juvenile plant of S. scrophularioides.

Solanum L.