Myrsinaceae. 
In Niu Valley, Oahu, occurs a small tree which belongs to this variety. In 
specimens from the latter locality the fruits are densely clustered along the 
branchlets, especially on defoliate ones, making them appear like axillary 
racemes, 
Collected flowering (no. 1217)) January 23, 1909, Waikane Mts., Oahu, and 
Niu Valley, fruiting Aug. 22, 1909 (no. 4807), and Feb. 8, 1913, fruiting (no. 
10232), same locality. 
Suttonia Lessertiana (A. DC.) Mez. 
Kol 
olea. 
(Plates 149, 150, 151.) 
oes LESSERTIANA (A.DC.) Mez Das ee 9. IV. 236, OF on iil eo 
n Engl. et Prantl Pfizfam. Nachtr. IV. (1908) Usa oo am Kapa 
in Mem, B. P. Bish. Mus. (1911) 148 an 89,—-Myrsine og in 
Ann. Be. vie te ue ee (1841) 85 ‘et in DC. Prodr. cr: I (1844) 96; .—Gray 
in Pro (1862) 331;—Seem. Fl. Vit, (1866) 149;—Mann in Proe 
Am, pets WIL eer 188;—Hhbd. FI. Haw. a (1888) Bik, —Del Cast. Ill. Ins. 
Mar. Pac. VII. (1892) 297 ;—Heller in Minnes. Bot tud, IX, (1897) 874.— 
Myrsine Gaudichaudit Wawra Bg ae in Flora “aar) 523; Paap 1. ¢. 331; 
Seem. 1. a ag - i or 
Fauriei Lévl. ag dde Bip : re “asity aba. _-Susvonia Panriel 1 td vi. 
Fedde Repert. ‘x. 24-26. (1912) ae. Beibook cuneata argiape et Faurie in Fedde 
Repert. X. 27-29, (1912) 443;—Suttonia pukooensis Lévl., 1. 44, 
Branches thick or very thick, ante f peue old ones verrucous; leaves very shortly 
petioted or often broadly sessile, bro narrow elliptical, or elli ptical- lanceolate or 
obovate, somewhat obtuse at both Pigs or pecuiat at the apex, often mre at t ase, of 
nd width, he ad i 
shove with black dots, the veins little prominent and connected by a str aight mar 
; flowers in the axils of the oldest leaves sal all along the branchlets and on 
jecting spurs of the bare branches, in fascicles of 3 to 7 or more, pedicels slender, pabrets, 
m with fl , and longer with fruits; flowers 3 to 3.5 mm long, glabrous, sepals 
bes 07 
te at the base; sone void-conical, stigma sessile 
r a short style, capitate, fi mbriate or 5- —— on the fruit; drupe globose, reddish 
or blee k, 4 to 6 mm with seaviaieoes pyren 
This species is one of the most variable ones in the genus, and that to such 
an extent that hardly two trees are alike. The leaves are the most variable 
part of the plant; also shape and branching habit vary ereatly. It certainly is a 
graceful tree in the rain forests of Oahu and Hawaii, as well as on the other 
islands of the Hawaiian group. Should one undertake to describe all the vari- 
ous forms as new species, as H. Léveillé did, one would certainly be naming 
individuals, and swell the synonyms of Suttonia Lessertiana, into which most 
of H. Léveillé species have wandered to remain there forever; the remaining 
ones are synonyms of S. sandwicensis. 
nds of the group In many 
ted in the de- 
Scription to some extent. The trees = often a heig 
with a trunk of one to two feet in diameter, and clothed in a gray bark which 
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