Euphorbiaceae. 
gto about 200; female flowers: calyx 2 to 3 mm, eager ovate, glands 3, oblong, nearly 
the siz cs the s sepa pet ovary tomentose. or silky; styles short, spreading; capsule dividing 
ut i, 5 mn high a d 6 mm broad, deeply furrowed; seeds globose, rugose; embryo 
axile, ooty fedois orient ae ce as long as the radicle. 
The Poola is a very small, soft-wooded tree, reaching a height of not more 
than 15 to 18 feet, rarely 20. The trunk is usually branching 6 to 8 feet above 
the ground with pale, spreading branches, forming rather an unsymmetrical 
crown. 
On East Maui, on the southern slopes of Haleakala, on the lava fields of 
Auahi, it grows to a small tree at an elevation of 2000 to 2500 feet, in company 
with Alectryon, Xanthoxylum, Xylosma, Pelea, Tetraplasandra, ete. On Ha- 
waii it is not uncommon on the lava fields of Puuwaawaa, where it is a small 
tree. The plants from the latter locality differ somewhat from those of other 
localities, in that their leaves turn to a steel-blue color on drying, and in some 
other minor points. On Lanai, the Poola is most plentiful in the valleys of 
Kaiholena and Mahana. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. No record 
remains as to the usefulness of this tree. 
The second Hawaiian species, C. tomentosum (ibd. ) Heller, is a shrub, and 
occurs on Kauai only. 
ALEURITES Forst. 
Monoecious to almost beetiedan Male flowers: esp aban ences 2 to 3 cleft. Petals 
longer than the calyx. Stamens inserted on a ——— 1 receptacle, in 1 to 4 — the 5 
cuter ones epipetalous. pee his ago dise-glands 5, thou rudimentary ova Fe- 
male flowers: corolla the same male ae Dise much reduced. seh 2 to 5- 
celled. tyle divided into rey tick. linear branches; stone fruit ee exocarp 
thin, endocarp a 2 to 5 ice Testa thick, woody. Album n thick, hard, very 
oily—tTrees with tellate So aye Leaves alternate, long pet! tioled, large, 5 to 7 
nerved at the base, phi mag! 8 to 5 at lobed; pedunele at the apex with two glands. Flow- 
$ in loose, widely bra ened eymose corymbs. 
A small genus of 3 to 5 species, of which A. moluccana (L.) Willd. is the 
most common and widely distributed species; it occurs in the tropies and sub- 
tropics of the old world, in the West Indies and Brazil, Pacific islands, ete. 
Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd. 
Kukui. 
(Plate 99.) 
es MOLUCCANA a Willd. SP: Pl. TV, (1805) 590;—Mull. Arg. in DO, Prodr. 
XV. 2. (1866) 723 Proe Mead. VIL. (1867) 203; a . Fi. Vit 
: 18 
Telopia perspicua Soland. Prin. Fl. Ins. Pac. ” (1858) 332, et in Park. co 
Pl. 105, et. 106 (ined. ef. Seem.).—Camirium m moluccanum O. Ktze. Rev. Gen : 
anceolate, undivided or 3, 7 lobed, 
beo-l 
varia hie shape, ovate or rhom oa toavenbues: eas 10 to 
Leave 
with ian acuminate lobes, pale, with the rib and nerv 
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