in Kona, slope of Mt. Hualalai, elevation 2000 feet, and on the slopes of Mauna 
Loa, land of Keauhou, at an elevation of 4000 feet, near Kilauea voleano; on the 
Parker Ranch near Waimea, and also on Molokai. 
The fruits of this, as well as other species, were used by the natives for catch- 
ing birds, and was spoken of as the ‘‘he kepau kapili manu,’’ or bird lime. The 
wood is very soft and of no value. Pisonia inermis extends over the Society, Gam- 
bier, Fiji, and Tonga groups, as well as Australia and Ceylon. It forms part of 
the beach forests of the Andaman Islands. The fresh leaves are used in India 
medicinally to subdue elephantiae inflammation in the legs or other parts. it 
is not uncommon in New Zealand, where it is called ‘‘ Para-para’’ by the northern 
Maoris. 
LAURACE AE. 
The family Lauraceae is distributed over the tropical and subtropical regions 
of both hemispheres. It consists of 39 genera, with about 950 species. The 
genus Cassitha, also occurring in the Hawaiian Islands, is the only genus with 
parasitic species, which reminds one very much of the Dodder or Cuseuta species. 
In these islands only one genus (Cryptocarya) has a single arborescent repr2- 
sentative, which is peculiar to Kauai and the Waianae range of Oahu. 
CRYPTOCARYA R. Br. 
Flowers ine tga icon e. Tube of perianth, es flowering, constricted. Staminodia 
oe > i 4 ei irel es ovate, shortly focal a ate. Fruit dry, but enti ae pret: within 
eshy periantheal tubes. Testa of the seed eanaily zeparable sabres pericarp. Flowers 
poe in oc axillary panicles. a with alternate penninerved leaves. 
The genus Cryptocarya, which consists of about 40 species, reaches its best de- 
velopment in South-east Asia, especially Java and the Sunda Islands. A few oe- 
cur in South Africa, nine in tropical Australia and a single one in the Hawaian 
Islands. Ten species are American, especially Brazilian. To this genus belongs 
Cr. moschata Mart., the American nutmeg. 
Cryptccarya Mannii Hbd. 
Holio. 
CRYPTOCARYA MANNII Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 382;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. Mar. Pae 
VI. ~~ 278; ;—Heller Pl. Haw. Isl. (1897) 826—Oreodaphne? Mann in "Proc. 
Am. Ae. VIT. (1867) 1 
Branches angular, the young leaves and inflorescence silky with a hdide lg tomentum; 
leaves thick coriaceous, glabrate, oblong 7 to 10 ¢ m long, 30 to 40 mm wide, obtuse, nar- 
at the base, th i i 
anicles or racemes mepiarele 12 to 18 mm long few flowered; flowers hermaphrodite; 
i ; lobes 6 
se u é 
free, ovoid; style short obtuse; as ovoid globose, bluish-black, about 16 mm long, 
12-ribbed, the thin n putamen closely adherent to the perianth; seed with thin testa; the 
Tupe is crowned by the remains of the perianth. 
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