Myrsinaceae. 
This exceedingly interesting and handsome species, which is undoubtedly very 
closely related to 8. Aauaiensis, occurs only in the very dense forest of the in- 
terior of Kauai, often bordering the extensive bogs. It is quite conspicuous on 
account of its dark green leaves which are dark reddish pubescent underneath, 
and also for its fruits, which are blackish blue with glaucous hue. It rarely 
attains a height of more than 12 feet and is often shrubby; the writer collected 
it on the borders of the bog Kauluwehi, elevation 4300 feet, in the heart of the 
Kauai forests, fruiting October, 1911, (no. 10229) ; and flowering, Kaholuamano 
forests (no. 2362), March 3-10, 1909; (no. 5956) fruiting from the tabular 
summit of Kauai Sept. 4, 1969. Abbe Faurie flowering March, 1910, (no. 424). 
Suttonia lanaiensis (Hbd.) Mez. 
SUTTONIA LANAIENSIS (Hbd.) Mez Das Pfizenreich 9. IV. 326, (1902) 336.—Myrsine 
naiensis Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 281.—Del Cast. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pae, VII. (1892) 
mall ee glabrous throughout, the bark of the rather stiff branches covered with 
kautieis; leaves on petioles of 4-18 mm, elliptical, or obovate-oblong, shortly acute at the 
h 
rameal and at dace? axils of leaves, flowers peo 5-8 or ev e, pedicels 5-6 mm, 
slender, glabrous; flowers 3 mm es sepals almost free, ov ae ry pibeebiegher: with the 
margins peiicae iahvists, petals elliptico- lanceolate, subacute, bisa bait black roundish 
dots or lines; anthers o sh e, subacute, the apex papillulos oid, n red toward 
the a glabrous, peeled one, stigma’ asic tee ae pel globos se, gp eect 5-6 mm in 
This handsome species, which has hitherto been thought to be peculiar to the 
Island of Uanai, has also been collected on the eastern part of Maui in open dry 
gulches back of Makawao at an elevation of 2500 feet, where it reaches a height 
of 30 feet 
It is exceedingly common on the Island of Lanai in the open dry gulches, 
such as Kaiholena, Mahana and Koele, where it is a small tree, and quite con- 
spicuous on account of its pale, graceful foliage, which has always a pinkish 
tint. It is associated with Rauwolfia sandwicensis, Xanthorylum hawatiense 
var. 8., Pisonia sandwicensis, and many others. 
It is collected by the writer on Lanai, flowering July 27, 1910, (no. 8027); 
and flowering and fruiting Sept., 1910, (no. 8533) in a gulch above Makawao, 
Island of Maui. 
Var. coriacea Rock var. -nov. 
the base, Slightly contracted on puberulous stout petioles 
pedicels of 6 mm, glabrous, otherwise as in the species; seed not se 
Of this variety only one tree was observed in the xerophylous forest on the 
Western end of Lanai, called Kaa, where a remnant of what must have been 
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