Rutaceae. 
woods of Kaluaha, Molokai, with flower buds; no. 7066. Owing to very incom- 
plete material the writer is unable to enlarge upon Léveillé’s description. In the 
writer’s hand is a co-type of Faurie’s no. 203, but without flower and fruit. The 
writer is very much inclined to reduce this plant to a variety of P. clusiaefolia, 
as it only differs from that species in the rather small subsessile leaves; but 
owing to insufficient material for study, it is left at present unmolested. It is a 
small tree, also shrubby. 
Pelea sapotaefolia Mann. 
PELEA SAPOTAEFOLIA Mann Proe. Bost. sos as eur " me peel oF 2, et Proce. a 
Ac. VII. xage are et Fl. Haw. Isl Ess. Ins (1867) 165;—Waw 
— (1873) 1 —Hba. FI. Haw. ia “(1888) 63; eam Pi Haw. Isl, 1897) 
—Evodia Bana eel Drake Del Cast, Il. Fl. Tne, Mar, Pace. VI. (1890) 133. 
A small tree much branched; the young naked leaf-buds hirsute, the branches and 
inflorescence glabrous; leaves verticillate, in fours, elongated-oblong or slightly spathulate- 
oblong, chartaceous, 10 to 22.5 em long. 5 to 7.5 em wide, somewhat at ttenuated at the 
base, or sometimes obtuse, on a petiole of 2.5 to 3.5 em, with a poh ong, prominent midrib, 
the very numerous primary veins (30 to 50 pairs) running out nearly transversely towards 
the margin, where they unite with a distinct intra-marginal vein; the leaves a some- 
broadly ere sinlorients in keen srg about 2 to 3 n sete petals 4, valvate, ovate, 
a third longer than the sepals, not thickened at the apex. on s 8, much shorter than the 
petals—evidently from a fertile flower (Rock), Bate ents eek lanceolate, glabrous; 
anthers deltoid- agittate, adnate-introrse; hypogyn a very short; ovary glabrous, 
depressed, globular, 4-lobed, 4-celled, the ‘4 oo jane what waited: style a little longer 
than the ovary; 4-par ted nearly to the base, the divisions clavate, stigmatic at and near 
the summit; the immature capsule is pabervient and deeply four-grooved. 
The above is the original description of this species by Mann, as found in 
the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 10, page 313. In 
Hillebrand’s description of this species the fact that the immature capsule is 
eeply 4 grooved is omitted, and the writer thinks it altogether wrong to place 
this species in the key as having cuboid subentire capsules. 
The writer collected specimens of a Pelea on Mt. Waialeale, the summit of 
Kauai, overlooking directly Kealia and Hanalei, on the windward side of Kauai, 
which he must refer as a variety to Pelea sapotaefolia. In trying to place the 
plant according to Hillebrand’s key to the species, the writer was quite unsuc- 
cessful, as his key calls for cuboid capsules; however, in looking up the original 
description of Mann, which is very complete of this species, he came to the con- 
clusion that the Waialeale plant is a variety of this species. The capsules are 
deeply 4-lobed when mature, and evidently likewise in the species found at 
Kealia, of which no one seems to have collected mature capsules. Owing to a 
plant collected by Knudsen at Waimea, Kauai, with cuboid capsules, Hillebrand, 
who seemed not to have collected the species, referred it to the latter, and merely 
took for granted that P. sapotaefolia had also cuboid fruits. The fact is strength- 
ened by Heller’s statement, who collected Hillebrand’s variety 8, which says: 
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