313 [Mann. 



sertlm ad costam pubescentibus, crebre pcnninerviis chartaceis 

 longluscule petiolatis ; calycis lobis late ovatis petalis ovatis breviori- 

 bus ; stvlo quadripartifo ovario longlore ; capsula .... 



Kauai, in the valleys of Kealia and Hanalai, on the windward side 

 of the island. (Mann & Brigham, 559.) 



A small tree, about twenty feet high, much branched. The young 

 naked leaf-buds hirsute, as in all the species ; the branches and in- 

 florescence glabrous. Leaves verticillate in fours, elongated-oblong or 

 slightly spathulate-oblong, chartaceous, four to nine inches long, by two 

 to three wide, somewhat attenuated at the base, or sometimes obtuse, 

 petioled (the petioles one to one and a half inches long), with a strong 

 midrib prominent underneath, the very numerous primary veins (thirty 

 to fifty pairs) running out nearly transversely towards the margin, where 

 they unite with a distinct intramarginal vein ; the leaves are some- 

 what villous pubescent on the under surface, more especially on the 

 midrib, but quite glabrous above. The texture, and especially the 

 venation of the leaves, gives them somewhat the appearance of the 

 larger forms of Sapota Sandwlcensis. Flowers in axillary sessile 

 clusters, the pedicels two to three lines long. Calyx four-parted ; the 

 lobes broadly ovate, imbricated in sestivation, about one and a half 

 lines long. Petals four, valvate in asstivation, ovate, a third longer 

 than the sepals, not much thickened at the apex. Stamens eight, 

 much shorter than the petals : filaments linear-lanceolate, glabrous : 

 anthers deltoid-sagittate, adnate-introrse. Hypogynous disk very short. 

 Ovary glabrous, depressed-globular, four-lobed, four-celled, the four 

 carpels somewhat united. Style a little longer than the ovary, /our- 

 parted nearly to the base ; the divisions clavate, stigmatlc at and near 

 the summit. The immature capsule is puberulent and deeply four- 

 grooved. 



Pelea auriculaefolia Gray, 1. c. p. 343, t. 36. 



Glabra; follis (amplis subcoriaceis) ternatim verticillatis oblongo- 

 spathulatis basi auriculatis sessilibus, junioribus subtus pubescentibus; 

 floribus fasciculatis ad axillas foliorum delapsorum secus caulem vir- 

 gatum ; capsula quadripartita. 



Hawaii, on Mauna Kea, (Expl. Exp.) ; and on the Kohala Ridge, 

 (Hillebrand.) 



* * FoUis oppositis (P. anisata excepta crasso-coriaceis eximie retic- 

 ulatis) : pedunculis cymoso-uni-plurijloris. 



Pelea Kavaiensis sp. nov. 



Follis ovalibus supra glaberrimis subtus prassertim ad costam vel- 

 utino-villosis petiolatis ; floribus in axillis solitariis pedicellatis parvis ; 



