Solanaceae. 
eaten out by thirsty cattle, and are often covered with peculiar looking sears, 
and covered with knobs, increasing the ungainly appearance of the tree. It 
may be said here that none of the species of Nothocestrum (Aiea trees) deserves 
any claim to beauty; in fact they are the most ugly trees which the Hawaiian 
Islands possess. In the forests of Naalehu, southern slopes of Mauna Loa, 
Hawaii, the writer met with a form of this species, which owing to the fact 
that it grew in a wetter forest had a somewhat different aspect. The fruits 
were more or less oblong instead of globose, but agreed otherwise well with 
N. breviflorum. Collected fruiting June, 1909, North Kona, Hawaii, (no. 
3552) ; and flowering and fruiting Jan. 15, 1912, in Hilea forests, Kau, Hawaii, 
(no. 10016). 
The tree is usually found at an elevation of between 2000-2500 feet. 
Nothocestrum latifolium Gray. 
Alea. 
(Plates 172, 173.) 
NOTHOCESTRUM LATIFOLIUM Gray in Proc, Am, Acad. VI, (1862) 48;—Seem. Flora 
Vit. (1866) 173;—Mann oe Am. Acad, VII. " (1867) 191;—Wawra in Flora (1873) 
62;—Hbd. FI. Haw. ie mi 8) 308;—Del Cast. Il. FI. Ins. Mar. Pacif. VII. (1892) 
249 ;—Heller in Minnes. Bot, Stud. Bull. IX. (1897) 8 
A small tree; branches rigid. ascending; leaves broad o wie or obovate-oblong, or 
suborbiewlar (Lanai spee.) entire or with very s siatlaw sinuses, acute or obtuse and often 
rounded at the apex, covered with an ochraceous tomentum when yo ung, puberulous at a 
later age, of somewhat thick texture when fresh, thin chartaceous in dried specime 
pellucid, 4 a 12 em lon to 7 em wide, on petioles of 10 to 50 mm; fl 
on short spurs, the pedicels 4 to 18 mm, calyx ureceolate, pos 6 mm, trune 
globose, Omen ins ose or glabrate, open wit th fruit; corolla greenish-yellow, silky, 
twice as long as the calyx, the lobes less than half its length; anthers protruding, some- 
what oles sa in the foregoing species; ovary globose, style as long as tube, berry 
globose 4 to 6 mm, whitish. 
This species a Aiea oceurs on all the islands of the group with the exception 
of Hawaii. Like the former it prefers the dry forehills on the leeward sides 
as well as aa lava fields. It is one of the most common and ungainly looking 
trees on the Island of Lanai, where it can be found in the Kaa desert, the most 
Western point of Lanai. It is taller than any other tree in that locality and can 
be recognized from a distance by its long stiff ascending branches, which are 
only slightly foliate; on Molokai it is common at Mapulo’u in the dry seoun delet 
and rocky situation 2000 feet above Kaunakakai, where it associates with 
Sideroxylon, Acacia Koaia, Myoporum sandwicense, and other trees; collected 
March 22. 1910, Mapulo’u, Molokai, no. 6155 fruiting; flowering at Mauna Lei, 
Lanai, July 26, 1910, (no. 8082). 
On the Island of Maui, on the southern slopes of Haleakala on the lava fields 
of Auahi, land of Kahikinui, occurs a variety enumerated as 8 by Hillebrand in 
his Flora During the winter months, especially in the month of November, 
the trees are adorned with large dark green foliage hiding the ugly gnarled stiff 
branches, while in the month of March they are either bare or with only very 
Scanty foliage. 
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