Mann.] ' 318 



liglit ; the petioles one half to two inches long. Peduncles about 

 equalling the petioles in length, bearing ovate-subulate bracts. Cyme 

 three to five-flowered. Pedicels bracted, two or three lines long. 

 FloAvers hermaphrodite, nine to ten lines long by six to seven lines 

 in diameter, campanulate. Sepals four, four or five lines long, 

 decussatingly imbricated, the two outer longer and much thicker ones 

 enclosing the two inner in the bud, clothed with a minute sericeous 

 pubescence extending down on to the pedicels. Petals four, alternate 

 with the sepals, in testivation strongly imbricated or often truly con- 

 volute, inserted under the disk, eight to nine lines long, obovate, 

 thick and fleshy, Avhite, minutely sericeous, bearded on the margins, 

 with the somewhat spreading and recurved tips apiculate. Sta- 

 mens eight, nearly as long as the petals, inserted on the margin 

 of the thin hypogynous disk; the much dilated filaments mona- 

 delphous to the middle ; the sagittate introrsely dehiscent anthers 

 wholly adnate to their interior face, and about two lines long. 

 Ovary globular, the four rounded-triangular carpels joined only by 

 the central columnar stvle, which is four times their leno-th. Stigma 

 terminal, entire, slightly four-grooved. Ovules five in each cell, col- 

 lateral and superposed, hemltropous. Fruit con>isting of four coria- 

 ceous, erect, distinct cocci eight to nine lines long, and three or four 

 in diameter, lined with a hard, smooth, crustaceous endocarp, and half 

 enclosed by the persistent cup-shaped calyx ; usually ripening two 

 seeds which very much resemble those of Pelea. Embryo not seen. 



Zanthoxylum Colden. 



Zanthoxylum Kavaiense Gray, 1. c. p. 354. 



"Inerme, glabrum ; follis alternis pinnatls 3-5-foliola.tls ; foliolis 

 coriaceis ovalibus integerrlmis hand punctatis ; panlculls axillari- 

 bus compositis ; fructlbus stipltatls ;" — floribus tetramerls ; caly- 

 cls lobls ovato-subulatis petalis fl. masc. lanceolatls trlplo, fl. foem. 

 lineari-ligulatls quadruple brevioribus ; antherls ovallbus ; ovario soli- 

 tario. 



Kauai, (Expl. Exp.) Hawaii, (Remy, 614.) 



The fruit has been described from the specimens of the South 

 Pacific Ex})lorlng Expedition. I have described the flowers from a 

 specimen, probably of the same species, collected on Hawaii by Remy, 

 but diflering in the thinner texture of the leaves, which appear with 

 the flowers. Calyx four-lobed ; the lobes ovate-subulate, about three- 

 fourths of a line long, in the male flowers thrice shorter than the lan- 

 ceolate petals ; stamens four, a line in length ; filaments capillary ; 



