Myrsinaceae. 
variable. It is plentiful in different forms in the forests of Halemanu, above 
Waimea, Kauai, where it is a small tree or shrub. 
It is not found at low elevations where S. Lessertiana abounds, but is more 
or less restricted to the higher levels, that is between 3000-5500 feet, or occa- 
sionally even higher. To this species are referred Léveillé’s numerous new 
species, which are not even forms of S. sandwicensis. His 8. punctata is identical 
with Hillebrand’s var. 8. denticulata a low shrub, which occurs on the high 
plateau of Kauai in open bogs, or often also in the swampy forests. The 
writer had at his disposal co-types of Léveillé’s plants, which were kindly loaned 
to him by the Brothers of the Catholic school of Hilo, to whom Abbé Faurie sent 
one set of his duplicates. With the help of these plants the writer was en- 
abled to straighten out Léveillé’s species, which could not have been done satis- 
factorily with Léveillé’s short description only. 
Var. apodocarpa (Lévl.) Rock. 
Suttonia apodocarpa Lévl. et Faurie in Fedde Repertor. X. 27/29 (1912) 44. 
Leaves aren Recor sperie cabathas teen to 2 to 5 mm wide, acuminate 
aka a iets evolute margin, subpetiolate, pe pita uate, fruits usually single 
<? , on ae shoe pedicels, (according to Lév eillé sessile ise his specimen 
ae eet pated neither flower nor fruit) g lobose, 3 to 4 mm, crowne d by the capitate 
at 
stigma. Abbé Faurie’s number is 446, coll. neck Kauai, Febr., 19 
The writer’s own material of this plant, which is not specifically distinct from 
S. sandwicensis, but is a variety, was collected on the central plateau of Kauai in 
September, 1909, fruiting no. 5605. Hillebrand’s var. B.denticulata occurs also 
in that locality, flowering and fruiting no. 4967, Sept., 1909, and Oct., 1911. 
Suttonia lanceolata (Wawra) Rock. 
| Kolea. 
Myrsine sandwice var. lanceolata bale in ora (1874) 526. gies a 
lanceolata Heller in Minnes, Bot. Bull. "Tx. (1s tee 873, not M. angustifolia, 
Heller —Suttonia angustifolia Mez Das Pfizenreich 9. IV. 236. (1908) 337. 
Branches slender, glabrous, nodose, dark reddish brown, foliate only at the apex; 
leaves, linear-lanceolate, dark green above, ale aay meen caudate- igen n at => 
th se ela reticulate eugene. minutely 
apex, ‘acute a e base, sessile or subsessile, m “ppd 
punctulate above, with black dots, 40 to 65 mm long, o 8 mm ; flowers single : 
two in the axils of t aves on pedi 0 am, tak rs yea 
ovate, subacute, sparingly ie tate, half the length of the corolla; petals oblong, egpenenty 
receded punctate, with eddish thickene argin, sta — on nrc bles 
w ute 
ich is less than half iis pam of the petal, anthers ae oT caaahieta bluish-black, 
with a sessile maybe Siac drupes usually on the 
glaucous, 8 mm in diam 
This very distinct species is peculiar to the high mountains of Kauai, and 1s 
not uncommon at the summit of Kauai, Mt. Waialeale, elevation 5200 feet, where 
it grows as a small tree 15 feet or more in height in the open boggy country, in 
company with Labordea Waialealae, Pelea Waialealae, Dubautia paleata, 
Tetraplasandra Waialealae, Lobelia Kauaiensis, and others. It is an exceedingly 
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