Myrsinaceae. 
once an interesting forest is still to be found. The tree was at once conspicu- 
ous by its thick leathery bronze colored leaves; it was just beginning to flower. 
It is associated with Osmanthus sandwicensis, Xylosma Hillebrandii, and Maba 
sandwicensis. From a distance the tree looked almost exactly like a Sideroxylon 
or Chrysophyllum. Collected flowering July 27, 1910, (no. 8078), type in the 
Herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 
Suttonia Fernseei Mez. 
SUTTONIA FERNSEEI Mez. in Das Pfizenreich 9. IV. 236. (1902) 336.—Myrsine Gaudi- 
chaudii var. grandifolia Wawra in Flora (1874) 524. 
Branches very thick, at the very apex beset with minute ferruginous scales; leaves 
on petioles of 7 mm or more, elon ngate and narrowly e dpe _— at the base, shortly 
contracted, 210 mm or more iong, 65 mm broad, n =: gente ee mare 
s 5-8, 12 mn ong pedicel beelly 20 glabrous, 8 mm; 
flow m long, glabrous; sepals connate one-third their length, the lobes pa ere 
wi ith Hey ma eeuie densely ciliate, petals acute, very obscurely marked with lines; anthers 
of the female flowers little reduced, acute; ovary glabrous, with a sessile capitate stigma. 
This species named by Mez in honor of Wawra, Ritter von Fernsee, was col- 
lected by the latter on the Island of Kauai (no. 2019). It is not known to the 
writer. It may, however, be identical with an exceedingly large Suttonia tree 
with a trunk of 2 feet in diameter, and very large leaves, found at Opaiwela 
near Kaholuamano, Kauai. Owing to the size of the tree it was impossible to 
secure specimens. The writer did not meet with any other tree of this sort, and 
was assured by Mr. Francis Gay of Kauai, who is more familiar with the Kauai 
forests than any other man, that the one in question is the only one known 
to him in the surrounding forests. 
On the Koolau range on the Island of Oahu, in the mountains of Punaluu, the 
- writer collected specimens of a Suttonia (no. 473) but without flower or fruit, 
whose leaves answer well Mez’s description of S. Fernseei, and it is here doubt- 
fully referred to that species. Among the numerous duplicates of the various 
Suttonia, the writer found a sheet numbered 2364 collected at Kaholuamano, 
Kauai, March, 1909, but without flower or fruit; it must however be referred 
to S. Fernseei, as the leaves answer the description. 
Suttonia spathulata Rock sp. nov. 
Kolea. 
A small tree 6-8 m high, glabrous orig dae branches stiff, more or less vane 
leaves decidedly soathelees: bluntly ae the apex or roun nded, thick fleshy, rather 
succulent, on short rgined petioles of hg mm, or often subsessile, ark green above, light 
underneath, petioles reddish, ns quite inconspicuous, sparingly punctate h minute 
black dots, 5-7.5 em long, 2-3 em wide; Fier chlets densely flowered their whole length, 
(flowers unknown); fruits usually 4-6 in a cluster on ae icels of 16 ~ bracts broad, 
triangular; pedicels and the per al pe a ovate sepals glabrous, the lat — pat 
fimbriate margins; fruit globose, black, 6 mm in diameter, crowned by a stig 
This rather striking species is a small tree of 15-20 feet or little more, and is 
peculiar to Mt. Haleakala, Maui, where it grows on the northwest slope at an 
elevation of 6500 feet in the gulehes back of the extinct crater of Puunianiau, 
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