Sapotaceae. 
Var. 8 densiflorum Hbd. 
Leaves large 7.5 em long, generally glabrous when ; flowers in clusters of 4 to 6 
in the axils ade nt pict tt: see set leaves, on pedicels oy 4 mm, completely covering ee 
end of the bra 
Hillebrand records this variety from the leeward slopes of Mt. Kaala of the 
Waianae range on Oahu. The plant is not known to the author, but he eol- 
lected specimens of another variety, coming rather close to this one, on Molokai, 
near Kapulo’u below Kamoku camp in the rather dry district, in company 
with Myoporum sandwicense, Ochrosia sandwicensis, and Nothocestrum lati- 
folium. It may be described as follows: 
Var. molokaiense (Lévl.) Rock comb. nov. 
Myrsine molokaiensis apse in Fedde Rep. het nov, regn. veg. X. cs 14 (1911) 154 et 
Suttonia saaeieectane nsis Levl. nov. nom. in Fedde, 1. e¢. x. 24- 26 (1912) 3 
Leaves eel Se cuivka. dark gre reen, Sains above, with a fine ee ery pubescence 
peter drives ung leaves yellowish pubese ent; flowers either sing gle or 4 to 6 in the axils 
se leaves, often very densely flowered, on es edicels of 1 to 12 mm, whole in- 
i eee go olden yellow, athe. es brous petals longer than phe ealyx, staminodia 
petaloid, os ie nsely hirsut e with distinct style; fruit subglobose, beaked, resembling 
the fruit of S. spathulatum. 
In Abbé Faurie’s collection, which I have at hand, is a plant numbered 435 
and labelled ‘‘Myrsine molokaiensis Levl. sp. nov. Molokai, Kamolo 1000 m. leg. 
Faurie Junio 1910.’’ The plant is at a first glance recognizable as a Sideroxylon 
and is identical with my number 6154 Siderorylon spathulatum var. molokat- 
ense Rock. 
At first the writer could not believe that such a gross error could be committed, 
but after reading the most incomplete deseription by Léveillé, which says: ‘‘ Af- 
finis M. sandwicensis DC. a quo secernitur foliis supra atro-viridibus, subtus in- 
canis vel incano-tomentosis,’’ it can be no other plant than Faurie’s specimen 
marked 435. Faurie’s specimen is in fruit, but quite immature. 
The material collected by the writer came from almost the identical locality 
where Faurie collected his plants, but a little more toward the west. However, 
one cannot depend very well on Faurie’s exactness in citing localities, as can be 
seen in Léveillé’s publication, who places Hilo on the Island of Maui and Mt. 
Haleakala on a different island than Maui. Some plants are simply marked: 
Sandwich. It is indeed very regrettable that the material of Abbé Faurie (which 
is often beyond recognition) fell in the hands of H. Léveillé, whose ambition 
seems to be to bring the number of his new species up to 1000. A goodly 
number of his new species are European weeds which have been imported by 
the cattle estates with grass seeds, and have become scattered over the mountains 
in the pasture lands which he calls in herbidis; may it be said that in these vast 
meadows not even a native grass can be found, still less herbaceous native plants, 
which have been crowded out by imported grasses and such weeds which Léveillé 
deseribes now as new species, and thus would change the whole endemic aspect 
of our most interesting flora. 
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