146 MacCauGuey: Forest TREES OF HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
research. Some of the important workers have been: Nelson, 
1778; Menzies, 1792-4; Chamisso, 1816; botanists of the United 
States Exploring Expedition, 1840; Seeman, 1848; Remy, 1853; 
Mann and Brigham, 1864-65; Wawra, 1869; Hillebrand, 1888; 
Heller, 1896; and Forbes and Rock in recent years. 
In the present list the nomenclature of Engler and Prantl is 
generally followed, and all available data have been incorporated 
This is the first time that a comprehensive and concise check list 
of this character has been prepared, covering the Hawaiian forest 
trees. 
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CYATHEACAE 
. CrsotrumM Menzizrsu Hook. Hapu i’i’i or Hei'1; Greater Tree-Fern; all 
islands; 2,000-6,500 ft.; aie tiny 25-40 ft.; trunks fibrous and spongy, 
used for enero roads, et 
- CIBOTIUM CHAMISSOIL ok Hapu; Lesser Tree-Fern; all islands; 1,500- 
6,500 ft.; ; hydro- and mesophytic; 12-25 ft.; trunk as in the precedin ng. 
. CrpoTruM GLaucuM Hook. & Arn. Glaucous Tree-Fern; Hapu; all islands, 
rare; elevation and ecology as for C. Chamissoi; 10-20 ft. 
PANDANACEAE 
. PANDANUS OporRATissimus L. Hala or Lau-Hala; Pandanus, Screw-Pine; 
all islands; sea-level to 2,000 ft.; meso phytic; 15-25 ft.; leaves and fruit used 
by natives; widely distributed throughout the Old World tropics, the islands 
of the Pacific, and most abundant in Malaysia. 
PALMAE 
. PritcHARDIA. Loulu; Hawaiian Fan Palm; all islands, including Nihoa 
and Laysan; sea-level to 4,500 ft.; hygro ophytic, rarely semi-xerophytic; 
8—40 ft.; there are at least two well defied species, P. Gaudichaudii H. Wen 
and P. Maritii H. ave igs te area ee of ee forms, some of which 
will probably full 
fully investigated. 
. Cocos NUCIFERA L. ieee Palm; Nia ae tstanda: “Bitora! and lower 
valleys; 40-100 ft.; mesophytic; this is th limit of the coconut palm 
in the Pacific; it occurs in Peis oe regions and telaside. particularly 
in tropical America and the Paci 
LILIACEAE 
. DRACAENA AUREA Mann. Hala-pepe; all islands; 1,000-2 ,000 ft.; Sibaniiede: 
20-40 ft.; wood very soft and white 
ULMACEAE 
TREMA AMBOINENSIS (Willd.) Blume. Oahuand Molokai only; 1,000-3,000 ft.; 
mesophytic; 20-30 ft.; very rare; abundant on many of the islands of the 
Pacific, particularly in the South Pacific. 
MORACEAE 
(Endl ) Bureau At 
D, 
ai; Hawaiian False Mulberry; 
all islands; r,000-3,000 ft.; ; xerophytic; 20-40 ft.; wood hard and durable, like 
