Euphorbiaceae. 
conspicuous in that small area on account of its pale glaucous foliage. The wood 
is exceedingly heavy, close grained and very hard. The sap wood is red, while 
the heartwood is black, making a beautiful contrast. The type is no, 10030 in 
the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 
It is associated with Antidesma pulvinatum, A. platyphyllum, Pittosporum 
Hosmeri var. longifolia, Maba sandwicensis, Alphitonia excelsa, Colubrina oppo- 
sitifolia, Santalum Freycinetianum, Osmanthus sandwicensis, Tetraplasandra 
Hawaiiensis, and many other interesting tree species. 
ANTIDESMA Linn. 
Flowers shearer Calyx 3 to 5 lobed. Discus teeth be contend united. Male flow- 
Stamens 2 to 5, se ney the sniste: pet nie ward in the bud, later erect. 
The rudimen iti ovary sm Female flow Ova —very rarely also 2-celled. 
Style 3, very short, 2 lobed. gies fruit small ere te Seeds without caruncle. 
A genus of trees and shrubs, with more than 70 species in the warmer re- 
gions of the old world. It is distributed from tropical Africa to Australia, 
Japan and the islands of the Pacific. 
Two species or probably three are to be found in these islands, with one in 
the Viti (Fiji) Islands, one in Samoa, and two in New Guinea. The only repre- 
sentative of the genus in tropical Polynesia, a doubtful one, is recorded by 
Hemsley from Admiralty Island. None have so far been discovered in America. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves ovate or obovate, glabrous...........2--eeee eee e ese eee cette: A. platyphyllum 
Leaves cordate with a patch of Sais in the angles of rib and veins...... A, pulvinatum 
Antidesma platyphyllum Mann. 
Hame or Haa. 
(Plate 94.) 
ANTIDESMA PLATYPHYLLUM Mann Proc. Am. Acad. VII. (1867) 202;—Hbd. Fl 
Isl. (1888) 402; a Cast. Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pacif. VII. (1892) 289; —Heller PL. 
Haw. Isl. (18 97) 8 
Leaves ovate to obovate or orbicular 8 to 12 em long, 4 to 10 em wi ide, on petioles of 
about 5 mm, shor rtly acuminate, glabrous, shining above but punctato papillose, chartaceous 
to coriaceous, panicles pube erulous; male flowers: subsessile along the simple branches oF 
a paniculate rhachis of about 8 em; bracts conchoid, as long as the calyx or *Tonger; 
calyx less than x mm, a aelig a4 with 5 to 4 roundish lobes; petals rudimentary, dise 
glabrous, lobed, s5o0 ong exserted; ovary rudimentary, with peltate stigmas. 
Female flowers: poroar ee ties the branches of a agree axile, paniculate rhachis ts) 
5 to 14 em; bracts linear; calyx less than 2 mm, 5 to 8 cee: dise small, annular; ovary 
glabrous; style terminal; drupe reddish or dark purplish, fleshy, compr , . 
the — putamen irregularly ridged. alge ledons ic iat. as broad as the scanty 
albumen, 2 or 3 times as long as the radic 
The Hame or Haa is a very handsome tree, reaching a height of 20 to 30 feet, 
with a trunk of a foot or more in diameter; the bark is fibrous, deeply corru- 
gated, and whitish. It has no round crown, as the few branches are rather as- 
cending and have only a few branches. It is conspicuous by its large leaves, 
which are bright green and glossy, and is on that account often mistaken for 
the Maua tree (Xylosma Hillebrandii or X. Hawaiiense), which it resembles 
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