Aquifoliaceae-Celastraceae. 
sionally met with in the drier districts. It can be found usually in company 
with Perrottetia sandwicensis (Olomea), Cheirodendron Gaudichaudii (Olapa), 
Straussia, Bobea, Elacocarpus bifidus (Kalia), and others peculiar to that zone. 
The tree is seldom tarnished by insects or blight, and the dark glossy leaves make 
the tree a conspicuous object in the forest, and more so when it is in full bloom, 
exhibiting its cymes of white flowers in the upper axils, and abundant small black 
fruits below the leaves, along the stem. 
The leaves vary tremendously in size, shape and texture, and so does the in- 
floreseence, which is sometimes very shortly peduncled and appears to be ter- 
minal. A form with very small leaves is not uncommon on Kauai, while the 
biggest fruited specimens the writer collected on the slopes of Mt. Hualalai, in 
North Kona, Hawaii. 
The wood of the tree is whitish and rather soft. It has been employed for 
saddle-trees by the Hawaiians of today. 
CELASTRACEAE. 
With the exception of the Arctic Zone, the Celastraceae are to be found in all 
floral regions, but especially in southern and tropical Africa, including Madagas- 
car; also in tropical and subtropical Asia, in China, and Japan. 
The genus Perrottetia, which oceurs in the Indo-Malayan region, is also to be 
found in tropical America, with one species in the Hawaiian Islands. The family 
consists of 38 genera with numerous species. 
PERROTTETIA H. B. K. 
wers hermaphrodite or unisexual; calyx paaeeul a 4 meee to ceawerriaas lobes 
Sarge 5, short, , open or imbricate in the Petals 5, erect, similar to the 
. ; ing- 
ame n he dis 
flowers longer than the etal in bat Bersep a flowers very short, sterile, filaments filiform 
or subulate, anthers broa nd o val, versatile; ovary ide or lageniform, free from 
the disc, mostly 2 celled or ‘often ner ‘eats 4-celled at the base. Ovules 2 in each cell. 
Style short, stigma 2 or 3 to 4 parted, 1 to 2 erect ovules in each cell. : Fruit a thick Roshy 
globose berry with persistent calyx, corolla, dise and stamens, 2 to 4 celled, cel to = 
seeded eeds round with thin fleshy album cea nioa trees or shrubs with alternate, 
thin coriaceous serrate leaves; stipules triangular, small and deciduous. florescence 
single in the leaf-axils, paniculate or cymosely branched. Flowers small. 
Perrottetia sandwicensis A. Gray. 
Olomea, or Waimea on Maui. 
(Plate 103.) 
PERROTTETIA SANDWICENSIS A. Gray Bot. U. S. E. E. (1854) 291, pl. 24;— rie 
Proce. Am. Ac. VII (1867) 161, et Fl. Haw. Isl. (1867) hae ci ca lora 
(189 39;—Loes. in Engl. et Prantl eg pe os 1996). 220, ie Nachtr. 
- (1897) 224 —Heller PI. tae Isl. (1897 
Leaves alternate, ovate oblong, somewhat acuminate, e either obtuse ee agin igs 
base, serrate, rather chartaceous, pinnately veined, shining above, pale un ’ 
and nerves as well as petioles red, the latter 12 to 25 mm in length; stipules minute, 
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