Theaceae. 
EURYA Thunb. 
Trees or shrubs with coriaceous leaves. Flowers single or exceptionally in 
very short racemes, which are axillary. 
Subgenus TERNSTROEMIOPSIS Urb. 
Flo corolla fleshy. Male flowers, with 10 5 stamens in one row 
the anthers twice as long a s the filaments, linear lanceolate, ne dows to the base Ovary 
which the mos 
1g af WwW. 
Cotyledons shorter than the radicle of the embryo.—Leaves spiral. To 
this siete belongs the Hawaiian species (Hurya poe es ere Gray) only. 
The genus to which the Hawaiian species belongs consists of about 36 species 
and several subspecies which are distributed over Mexico, South America and 
the East and West Indies. 
Eurya sandwicensis A. Gray. 
Anini or Wanini. 
EURYA SANDWICENSIS A. Gray. Bot. U. 8S. E. E. (1854) 209;—H. Mann. Pro 
Am. Acad, VII (1867) 156, et FI. Haw. ie L807 oles: Wawra in Flora ast) 
168:—Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl, (1888) 41;—Del Sg ll. Fl. = El VI. (1890) 
117;—Szyszyl. in Engl. e Peat Bhzfam 6. es 139, Engl. in Nachtr. 
(1897) 247;—Heller Pl. aw. cist) ae A ecuincehanean sandwicensis 
Urban in Ber, Deutsch. Bot. ae ie. (1896) 49. 
mall tree 5 to 6 m in height, or at higher altitudes a shrub 2 to 3 m, the ultimate 
heaaekicts pu escent; leaves obovate oblong, obovate or oval, obtuse, or pluntl acuminate 
at the apex, cordat a the base, closely serrate, thiek coriaceous, or subchartaceous, 
somewhat shining ae 5 to 7.5 em long, 25 to 30 mm wide, on short petioles of 2 to 3 
mm; flowers solitary ar he axils, subsessile or on pedicels of 6 mm; sepals dark purplish, 
coriaceous, suborbieulay, Ziti petals deciduous in the fertile flowers, somewhat 
soy, rs x le obovate, about 8 mm, yellowish; stamens free, very short; anthers mucro- 
Ss 2 to 3, pl ber rry. dryish, pee se, ceopat about 10 mm in diameter, 
parser crowned by the styles; seeds 12 in each ce ,g lobular-reniform, with a thin 
testa; albumen scanty; ber eee thick and noni: sick somewhat longer. 
Hillebrand in his Flora of the Hawaiian Islands describes a variety P, with 
larger leaves, rounded or acute at the base, from Kealia, Kauai. 
Wawra in Flora (1873), page 168, describes this particular form as Eury4 
sandwicensis Gray, fm. grandifolia Wawra, arbuscula foliis tenerioribus, sparsis, 
4 poll. longis, 114 poll. latis, basi rotundatis vel acutis, minutissime serrulatis ; 
pedunculis 4 lin. longis. Kauai um Kealia, ete. 2025. 
The variety is not known to the writer. The species occurs on all the islands 
of the group, especially in the middle forest zone up to 5000 feet and even 
higher. It is a small, rather glabrous tree, but more often a shrub. It is 
known to the old natives as Wanini, or Anini. On the summit of Waialeale, 
Kauai, the writer met with this species as a stiff shrub, with very large fruits, 
as compared with those of the middle forest zone, where the berries do not 
become larger than 6 mm. 
The Wanini is peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands, outside of which it has not 
been found. 
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