Rutaceae. 
dull, glabrous above, pubescent to ama underneath in the young leaves, pubescent 
along the prominent reddish midrib, the marginal nerve close to the edge and continuous 
to 8 em long, 5 to 7 em wide, on petioles of 15 ies ape ——. hirsute in the axils o 
the leaves, 6 to 15 flowered; male flowers: sepals ovate acute, 3 mm, petals little longer, 
stamens of — length some as long as “the see aoihass ov sar _—_ hirsute; female 
flowers: stamens rudimentary, half the height of the ovary, the latter 3 mm high , pubes- 
ork deeply parted, style filiform, 1.5 mm, with a bluntly 4-lobed piece the lobes thick; 
capsule not k 
This small stunted tree is peculiar to the summits of Puu Kukui, West Maui, 
and to the summit of Mt. Waileale, Kauai, where it grows on the borders of the 
great swampy plateau and in little guleches of the summit swamp proper. 
The writer collected specimens of this tree on West Maui, Puu Kukui elevation 
5700 feet, flowering August 21, 1910, in company with Mr. G. Hammond, no. 
8154; also on the edge of Honokawai Gulch at 4300 feet, flowering August 24, 
1910, no. 8184. 
On the summit of Kauai, Mt. Waialeale, the writer collected this species flow- 
ering on September 24, 1909, no. 4987, and again flowering October 20, 1911, no. 
880. The plants from this latter locality have the leaves from orbicular to ovate 
and even oblong on the same branch; however, they do not differ in other respects 
from those on West Maui, with the exception that they are shrubs on Waialeale, 
Kauai. 
Pelea kauaiensis Mann. 
Pilo ula. 
PELEA KAUAIENSIS Mann in Proce. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X. (1866) 313, et Proc. Am 
Acad, VII. (1867) 158, et Fl. Haw. Isl. Proe. Ess. Inst. V. (1867) 166; geotatg Fl. 
aw. Isl. (1888) 64.—Pelea cruciata Heller Pl. Haw. Isl. Minn. Bot. Stud. IX. 
(1897) 839, pl. 48.—Evodia Kavaiensis Drake Del Cast, Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar. ‘Pae. 
VI. (1890) 132 
Leaves opposite, ovate or seneeghe oblong, 10 to 22 em long, 5 to 10 em Nu ide, thick 
eoriaceous, (and not chartaceous) rounded or bluntly acute or emarginate at the apex, 
giadually papestag into a villous angola — of 2.5 to 3.5 em, the marginal nerve 
mote from the edge, arched, uniting t ondary veins, which are parallel and almost 
wers single, 2 to elu ‘s : 
mm; sepals ovate, rounded, bro ee: ies high, wi with subeiliate margins; petals some- 
what longer, oblong-ovate, ge ts a rainpsohdoan thin, glabrou preteen about 5 mm long, 
anthers rudimentary in the flow f the height of t e glabrous ovary; see 
filiform, nearly 2 mm, with an obtases Pabed stigma; capsule enon 15 to 30 mm 
diameter deeply four parted, the cocci thick in the full grown fruits, one to two saad, 
the cocci elongate, one or two often cabs rtive. 
The Pilo ula is a small tree, reaching a height of 15 feet, and has rather stout 
villous branches. Its trunk is short and only a few (6 to 8) inches in diameter. 
It inhabits the high central plateau of Kauai in the gray swampy, loamy soil near 
aholuamano, especially in the forests bordering the bog Lehua Makanoe. It 
grows in company with several species of Pelea, Wikstroemia sandwicensis var. 
furcata, Platydesma campanulatum, ete. It is not uncommon also at Halemanu 
9? s 
above Makaweli. Heller in his ‘‘Plants of the Hawaiian econ deseribed it 
as a new species ‘‘Pelea cruciata’’ and remarks as follows: ‘‘Mann’s description 
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