Rutaceae. 
calls for a small capsule, while these are large.’’ But had Heller seen the original 
description he would have noticed Mann’s remark, ‘‘Ripe fruit unknown,’’ which 
accounts for his capsules being small, as they were not fully developed. The 
writer has abundant fruiting material in which the capsules are of various sizes 
from 12 mm to over 30 mm in diameter. Collected Halemanu flowering and 
fruiting February 14, 1909, no. 2292, and Kaholuamano, September, 1909, no. 
5292, and fruiting October, 1911, no. 10214 in Herbarium, College of Hawaii. 
Faurie no. 226 with immature fruits March, 1910, in College of Hawaii Her- 
barium. 
From within 5 minutes walk of the summit of Kauai, Mt. Waialeale, the writer 
collected a specimen of a Pelea which must be referred to this species; it 1s, how- 
ever, a small stunted shrub, but answers otherwise the description of P. Kauai- 
ensis. The capsules are much larger and all cocci are fully developed; the diam- 
eter of the mature capsule is 3.5 em. Collected September 24, 1909, Waialeale, 
Kauai, 5000 feet elevation, no. 4990. 
Willebrand reports a variety 8. glabra from the same locality with glabrous 
leaves which are on longer petioles; perhaps the writer’s no. 1994 from Hale- 
manu, without flowers or fruits. 
Pelea rotundifolia Gray. 
PELEA ROTUNDIFOLIA Gray. Bot. U. S. E. E. (1854) 344, pl. 37, fig. Man 
Proe. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X. (1866) 315, et Proc. Am. Ac, VIL Ais) 168, Hf 
Proc. Ess. Inst. V. (1867) 167;—Wawra in Flora (1873) 137;—Hbd. Ts. 
(1888) 68;—Heller Pl. Haw. = Si ig Bot. Stud, (1897) 84 10. Eivodia “rotidl 
folia Drake Del Cast. Tl. Fl. fax At OVI (Pr eN0) 183, 
tree or shrub, leaves sessile or subsessile, orbicular to ovate, rounded and 
ps als or acute at the apex, oe te at the eae thick coriaceous, prominently nerved 
below, the intramarginal nerve. arched, distant from th edge, with intervening meshes 
entirely glabrous 6 to 12 em hae ittle less wide owers several in a sho eduncled 
ose cyme in the axils of the upper or sipageaemed lower leaves; bracts 
and bractlets opposite inute, ovate, subulate; male flowers sepals ovate, acute, puberu- 
ous, 4 m gh, petals more than twice the len th, shlong. acute, glabrous; stamens 8, 
4 longer than the petals, protrudin , the remaining ones shorter and of unequal size, 
broadened filaments; h sagittate, acute; rudimentary ovary pubescent, four lobed, 
bescence encroaching on lower part the style, which is 2 m leng nd ter 
minates bluntly 4 lobed igma; f wers shorter, about half the length of 
- e flowers. petals slightly longer than the sepals, the 8 stamens not longer than the 
vary; ovules 2 in each cell; fruit ee as in Pelea roleanica, but smaller, minutely 
pill the BE united at the bas 
This peculiar species can be found not uncommon in the mountains back of 
Honolulu, and is easily recognized by its rather large sessile cordate leaves, and 
rambling or long drooping branches. Wawra quite correctly remarks that the 
otherwise excellent figure shows undeveloped flowers; the detailed drawings rep- 
resent female flowers, so does Gray’s description, as he had not seen the much 
larger male flowers. It is peculiar to Oahu and oceurs throughout the main 
Koolau range at an elevation of 2000 to 2500 feet. 
Flowering, Punaluu Mts., November 21, 1908, no. 577; flowering and fruiting, 
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