Rock: SoME NEW HAWAIIAN PLANTS 301 
A diffusely branching shrub 10-12 dm. high, glutinous; leaves 
alternate, chartaceous, entire, obovate-oblong, acuminate, 38-102 
mm. X 12-30 mm., narrowing into a winged petiole of 12 mm., upper 
FiGuRE 3. a, b,’ Sideroxylon rhynchospermum Rock.; ¢, d, fruit and seed of S. 
sandwicense Benth. & Hook., introduced for comparison. Slightly reduced. 
face covered with a glutinous exudation, underneath glabrous and 
pale with prominent nerves; inflorescence viscid; flowers solitary 
in the axils of the upper leaves on pedicels of 38 mm. (50-76 mm. 
