Rutaceae. 
This rather interesting species, called Uahe a Pele by the natives, meaning 
smoke of Pele, owing to the peculiar smoky gray color of the leaves, is only found 
on the Island of Kauai, where it inhabits the drier districts especially near Ka- 
holuamano and Halemanu, above Waimea, at an elevation of 3600 to 4000 feet. It 
is a rather small tree or often only a shrub. It is quite different from Pelea 
cinerea in general aspect as well as in the leaves, which are thinner and curved, 
and mainly in its fruits, which are glabrous, and have also a glabrous endoearp. 
It comes, however, nearest to that species, though specifically distinct from it and 
not a mere form, as Wawra tried to make out. 
Pelea elliptica Hbd. 
PELEA ose afer Hbd. oe Haw. Isl, (1888) 69.—-Melicope ? elliptica Gray Bot. U. 8. 
854) 353;—Mann. Proe. Bost. Soe. Pigg Hist. X. (1866) 317, et Proe. 
hg te Bf Bie (1867). orn et Fl. Haw. Isl. Proc. Ess, Inst. V. (1867) 168. dew 
Kaalae Wawra in Flora (1873) 110.—Evodia elliptic Drake Del Cast. Ill. Fl. 
Mar. Pae, VI. (1890) 131. 
A small tree; sos es thin chartaceous, Adore —— dots, elliptico-oblong 7 oer: “6 
em long, 2 » to 3.5 wide, on petioles of 8 to 16 mm, br oadly obtuse or rou sas a 
emarginate at Se gud. faintly nerved, with the sinuous marginal nerve rather distant 
from the edge, sparsely — = underneath with pale eboney but soon glabrous 
and pale; flowers 1 to 3 on a short angular sedusels of 2 to 6 mm, the pedicels 6 mm, 
bracteolate spate the middle with den chats bractlets; souithines sev eral cymes in one 
ree sepals and petals aero persistent oo the capsule, both rare aph in the 
ud, but sub- die a in a lat r period; se ne als obtuse, petals Bay ate in the bud, 
oblong ; to 5 mm; style pbecwele 4-lobed, rae ‘capilate in the sterile flowers; “rolliele’ 
— to the base, - y, puberulous, 8 to 10 mm, thin papery, dekicront in both sutures, 
ne or more abor 
The plant was first collected by the U. S. Exploring Expedition on Kaala of the 
Waianae range, Island of Oahu. The writer is not familiar with this species, as 
he has never collected it. Hillebrand describes five varieties of this species, two 
from Maui, one from Niu Valley, Oahu, and the last var. «. from Kalae and 
Mauna Loa, Molokai. 
Pelea cinerea (Gray) Hbd. 
Manena on Maui. 
(Plate 90.) 
PELEA ere yp (Gray) Hbd. Flora — qe). oe) 68.—Melicope cinerea Gray, Bot- 
S. E. E. (1854) 350, t. 39, fig. A nn in Proe. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist. = 
(i866) 316, et Proc. Am. Ac, VII. 3867) 159, et Fl. Haw. Isl. Proe, Ess, Ins 
V. (1867) 168;—Wawra in Flora (1873) 18 39.--Evodia ¢ inerea Drake Del Cast, 
Tl. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pae. VI. (1890) 133. 
Young shoots covered with a — or ochraceous tomentum; air opposite, ovate 
oblong a to 10 em long, 3.75 fo 5 em wide, on petioles of 16 to 24 mm, shortly acuminate, 
subcoriaceous, with faint nerves, tho 4 arginal n nerve nagar t sage areuate, tomentulose to 
pubescent underneath, glabrate when sao flow he in short cyme or _Taceme, thi 
m dicels 4 t 
4 mm, valvate in the bud, ap some ates Geicod ay before expansion, gray puberulous; 
Ovary tomentose; capsule 20 to 24 mm transversely, the follicles pee Pe slightly at the 
base only, soon glabrate, thick coriaceous, opening ae fone entral suture, gener- 
ally all maturing; the thick endocarp pubescent; seeds 1 or 2 in each follicle, 4 to 6 mm 
Hh Nore cotyledons pains! extending the hae and and breadth of the 
umen, 
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