Myrsinaceae. 
is either smooth or covered with lenticels; when cut into, a red sap exudes 
very freely, which was employed by the natives of by-gone days for dyeing 
the tapa or paper cloth. The wood is quite handsome, of a pink color and mot- 
tled throughout. It is not very hard, but was used by the natives for house 
posts and beams; it takes a fine polish and could be employed for cabinet work 
as it can be easily worked. The biggest trees the writer observed on the Island 
of Hawaii on the slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, as well as in Waihou 
forest on the flanks of Mt. Hualalai. It favors an elevation of from 3000-4000 
feet, but descends lower on Oahu, though higher on Hawaii. It grows in the rain 
forests, though its best development is attained in the more open park-like for- 
ests situated on the above mentioned mountains. 
On the Island of Lanai oceurs a tree which must be referred to S. Lessertiana, 
but from which it differs in the decidedly ovate fruits, or even elongate-ovate, 
and is here named forma ovicarpa fm. nov. Collected in Mahana Valley, Lanai, 
fruiting Aug. 1st, 1910; no. 8102. 
Suttonia sandwicensis (A. DC.) Mez. 
Kolea laulii. 
(Plate 152.) 
SUTTONIA ee (A. DC.) Mez Das Pflanzenreich 9. IV. 236. (1902) 336.— 
Myrsine sandwicensis A. DC. in Ann. Se. Nat. 2. Ser, XVI. (1841) et et in DC. 
Prodr. VIII, (1844) 96;—Gray Proc. Am, Ac. V. (1862) 331;—Seem. Fl. Vit. 
(1866) 149;—Mann Proce. Am. Ac. lee (1867) 188;—Wawra in Pics a 
523 ?; ;—Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 281;—Pax in Engl. et Prantl Pfizfam. IV. 1 
(1889) 92;—Del Cast, Ill. Fl. Ins. tae Pac, VIL (1892) 227;—Heller in Minnes. 
Bot. Stud. Bull. TX. sae 874 (not Myrsine lanceolate).—M yrsine Vanioti Lévi. 
e . 
(Lev) Lévl. in Fedde Repert. X. 27/29 444—S. punctata Lane sot LS. 
144, identical with Myrsine caudekeonan DC. var. 8 denticulata Hbd. 
A small tree or shrub of myrtillaceous habit, with the young branches somewhat 
tomentulose, or in Kauai specimens covered with a rufous tomertum, leaves on petioles of 
. 
to 24 mm long, 6 to 10 mm broad, coriaceous, with hidden veins, quite a a rugose 
seCretinceele glabrous, the young leaves often densely punctulate with reddish dots; in 
florescence of 3 to 7 flowers, on not protruding gemmae, the pedicels 4 to 6 mm ; flowers 
2 to 2.5 mm long; sepals little connate, ovate, the margins papillulose-ciliate; sikerg 
atid eo acute, scarcely twice as long as the sepals, yellowish or reddi 
reddish-brown reaks; stamens only half as long as the corolla, anthers s hortly acuminate 
at the apex; ovary ovoid, gabrous, stigma subsessile, large, capitate-pulvinate; drupe black 
or bluish and glaucous, globose or ovoid, 3 to 5 mm in diamete 
This very handsome species is usually found as a shrub, but also as a tree, 
especially in the forest of the southern slopes of Mauna Loa at an elevation 
of 5500 feet, where it attains a height of 25 feet. It is quite conspicuous in the 
woods on account of its small foliage which is less than an inch long, dark 
green above and pale underneath. It oceurs on all the islands of the group 
and is more or less uniform, with the exception of on Kauai, where it is quite 
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