317 [Mann. 



Melieope elliptiea Gray, 1. c. p. 353. 



Glabra; foliis elllpticis utrinque obtusis petiolatis retlculatis; pe- 

 dimculis petiolo longiorlbus ; floribus pedicellisque canescentibus ; 

 calycis lobls ovoideis acutis petalis ovatis dimidio brevioribus; cap- 

 sula quadripartita ; coccis ovoideis apiculatis tomentulosis. 



Oahu, Kaala Mountains, (Expl. Exp.) Maui, forests on the slopes 

 of Haleakala. (Mann & Brigham, 377.) 



Platydesma Nov. Gen. Medlcosmce affinis. 



Flores liermapbroditl. Calyx quadrisepalus, persistens, imbricatus ; 

 sepalis rotundatis, exterioribus majoribus interiora OBstivatione in- 

 cludentibus. Petala 4, jestivatione late convoluto-imbricata vel 

 convoluta, ampla, obovata, apice recurva. Discus planus, leviter 4- 

 lobus. Stamina 8, disco inserta, infra, medium monadelpha ; fila- 

 mentis nudis ovatis seu ovato-lanceolatis crassis ; anthera? sagittatic, 

 facei interiori infra apicem filamenti adnatse. Ovarium 4-partitum: 

 stylus centralis : stigmate 4-lobo : ovula in loculis 5, amplii- 

 tropa. Cocci erecti, omnino discreti, subsucculenti, abortu sa?- 



pissime dispermae, endocarpio tenui cartilagineo. Embryo 



— Arbuscula SandAvicensis, fere glabra, graveolens. Folia opposita, 

 ampla, simplicia, lanceolata vel obovato-lanceolata, obtusa vel acumi- 

 nata, petiolata. Cymae axillares pauciflorae, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis. 

 Flores magni, albi. 



Platydesma campanulata sp. nov. 



Oahu, on the mountains behind Honolulu, at middle heights. 

 (Mann & Brigham, 94.) 



A tree twenty-five or thirty feet in height, with a spreading croAvn, 

 and a trunk eight or ten inches in diameter, nearly glabrous ; 

 the younger branches and leafy shoots of a light color, or when 

 quite young greenish, striped Aviih narrow ridges and depressions : 

 exhaling a strong terebinthine odor when cut or bruised. Leaves 

 varying in size on different parts of the tree, from three to fourteen 

 inches long, by one to four or five wide, lanceolate, or more usually 

 obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, dark green above, and 

 lighter beneath, tapering at the base, of a not very thick coriaceous 

 texture, pinnately veined (six to eighteen pairs of veins) ; the veins 

 divaricating after reaching about three-fourths of the distance to the 

 margin, not uniting to form a distinct intra-marginal vein, and not 

 strongly reticulated ; the leaves very copiously punctate with innu- 

 merable small raised glandular dots appearing black by reflected 



