Rutaceae. 
Wahiawa, May 15, 1909, no. 3026; and Waikane Mts. flowering January 23, 
1909, no. 1238. The inflorescence in the specimens from the last locality is 
more than 10-flowered. 
Pelea molokaiensis Hbd. 
PELEA oe Hbd. Fl. Haw. ee (1888) 65.—Evodia Molokaiensis Drake Del 
Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. VI. (1890) 182. 
Re sna be about 6 m high, the young shoots slightly puberulous, leaves 10 - ao : 
ong, 6.5 to 8 em or more wide, on petioles of 12 to 24 mm, or hapirse subsessile, 
petioles of 8 mm (in Lanai sapere quite ph iei even the reddish Inidrib, 
obovate, with retuse base and rounded or emarginate apex, the marginal. nerve at some 
binge het the edge, with one or two sets of meshes ners ening; flowers glabrous, or 
puberulous, 2 ey in a cyme or pseudo-raceme of 18 to 36 mm in length, the terete slender 
rhachis with o 3 nodes, the Se ppesecsds 10 to 12 mm, nodose near the middle and thickened 
bey sate sepa triangular 3 t mm; setae reddish 5 to 6 mm; capsule as in P. volcanica 
20 to mm transver 
ee to Hillebrand this is the most prevailing form on Molokai and is 
also found on West Maui. The writer’s material of this species is scanty and 
incomplete, several forms having been collected which may be referred to this 
species. A few plants have sessile leaves, others subsessile, others again on 
petioles as called for in the description, but the leaves are much smaller. On 
Lanai the writer collected specimens from a shrub with rambling branches which 
are undoubtedly Pelea molokaiensis, though differing somewhat from the original 
description. The leaves are prominently veined on both sides, while Hillebrand 
Says: “‘nerves little prominent’’; the species in question is evidently a very 
variable one, and as the writer’s material of this species is without fruit in 
every case, the diagnosis is somewhat doubtful. However, no. 8023 from the 
main ridge of Lanai is here referred to P. molokaiensis, flowering July 25, 1910. 
At first glance it resembles somewhat Pelea rotundifolia. Willebrand records a 
variety 8 (doubtfully) of this species from Oahu, Niu Valley; leaves as in P. 
orbicularis, all on long petioles. 
Pelea macropus Hhbd. 
PELEA hata Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 65.—Evodia macropus Del Cast. Ill. FL 
- Mar. Pac. VI. (1890) 132. 
mall tree about 5 m high, as glabrous, leaves a oe pee con- 
Fell and not emarginate a the base; flowers single, on a short peduncle 2 to 4 mm, 
which bears 1 or 2 pairs of minute Seactiete the ii beyond them aviary Mickined 
to ass length of 24 to 30 neg petals greenish; oe early 3.75 em transversely and 
$ mm high, its carpels parted more than 1% their length 
This species was first collected by V. Knudsen of Kauai (no. 189), on which 
island it is found, probably in the forests of Halemanu, back of Waimea. 
To the writer the species is not known, though a shrubby variety of it occurs 
on the high plateau of Kauai near Waialeale. 
Pelea pseudoanisata Rock sp. nov. 
the plan 
A very variable small tree or shrub; branches ascending; every part of t 
emits an exceedingly strong odor of anise, leaves ovate, obovate . oblong, or oblong, silsing 
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