Solanaceae. 
The leaves are large with sinuate margins, subcordate at the base, densely 
tomentose, dark green with pale venation; inflorescence also covered with a 
dirty yellowish pubescence; otherwise as in the species. At the same locality 
cccurs, however, also the species with entire leaves or just a slight indication 
of a wavy margin. 
The tree illustrated was photographed when the foliage was scanty. 
The wood of this, as well as of the other species, is soft and of a green color; 
it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing off canoes. The reddish 
yellow berries are sometimes eaten. 
Nothocestrum subcordatum Mann. 
Aiea, 
os gata hae SUBCORDATUM Mann Proc. Am. Acad. VII. (1867) 191;—Wawra 
Flora (1873) 62:—Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 309;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar 
Pae. VII. (1892) 249 
medium sized tree one 10 m high; leaves ovate or cordate, 7.5 to 12.5 em long, 
5 to 10 em wide, on Be ea f 3 to 4.5 em, bluntly ae gig thick coriaceous, glabrous; 
flowers clustered, but often only a single one develo oped, on pedicels of 4 to 5 mm; atte 
4 to 8 mm pope tee campanulate with pee globose With fruit but not closed over it 
\shaaglien exserted, silky yellow, its tube 8 to 10 mm, the limb half as long and 4 to 5 jsteeds 
erry glob 
This a which is undoubtedly closely related to N. latifolium, if at all 
distinet from it, occurs in the ravines of Mt. Kaala of the Waianae range, and in 
the Valley of Wailupe, at the eastern end of Oahu. It is not known to the 
writer. Wawra collected it at Halemanu on Kauai, (no. 2140). 
SOLANUM L. 
alyx 5 to 10 toothed or lobed, only rarely enlarged with fruit. Corolla rotate or 
broad campanulate, 5-lobed. Filaments very dete at the base of the corolla; 
anthers oblong o Aongee! erect and connivent i cone round the style, cpening at the 
apex by 1 to 2 por Ber rry eo . or ae Sale “ sirubs or trees, pro hla erect, 
or climbing, with wore or lobed lea Flowers in um vellat eymes or racemes, or often 
& corymbose panicle, rarely single. “Corolla white, yellow, Ge. blue or a 
This genus, which numbers more than 900 species, is distributed over the 
tropical and temperate parts of the whole globe; the largest number of species 
occurs however in South America. The Hawaiian Islands possess 6 endemic 
Species of which only the one here described is a tree, the remaining five being 
Shrubs. Besides the six endemic species quite a number of species are culti- 
vated for ornamental purposes, and a few are weeds along the roadside, as the 
nightshade (Popolo) ete. To this genus also belongs the Potato, Solanum 
tuberosum L., and the Egg plant, S. Melongena. 
Solanum Carterianum Rock sp. nov. 
Puananahonua. 
A medium sized or small tree 5 to 7 m high, with very few stiff branches, straight 
trunk of 15 to 20 em in diameter, vested in a grayish smooth bark; branches covered 
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