Rubiaceae. 
Drupes has by the calycine teet 
Flowers 2-3, sessile at the end ri a 1 short POGUE Ea ches C, Grayana 
iowa : on axillary mea ee of 5 mm, drupes largest of all Hawaiian 
yaw Pees VaRe TRAE MENTS oak Cha eee ee wees C, Waimeae 
Bpsc 
Drupes snteed ‘é the a 
Flowers numerous, crowded on short i a aaags SAFE anie ieee . pubens 
Flowers 3, sessile on a peduncle of 2 cm.........-..0+-eeee C, Kauaiensis 
Leaves ternate. 
Flowers many, crowded at the ends of long peduncles............... C. longifolia 
Coprosma montana Hhbd. 
Pilo. 
ode alae ig MONTANA Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 185;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. Ins. ae Pae. 
- (1890) 201;—K. Schum. in Engl. et: Prantl Pfizfam, IV. 4. (18 91) 132. 
. nziesii var. y Gray in Proce. ae Acad. IV. (1860) 49; ;:—Wawra in Flora 
(1874) 326. 
A small tree 6 m in height, with stiff, stout ascending branches, densely foliose 
covered with stipules below and more or less. pubescent; leav s obov rate or spathulate, 
to 25 mm long, 10 to 12 mm wide, penninerved, bluntly acuminate or rounded, the base 
ing Ant sity : : 
ena at the i rid sea der; flowers axillary, sessile on very short and thick ha ake female 
calyx 2 mm, irceolate, the limb denti miikke: gett 4 mm, deeply 5 to 6 parted, 
with roflexed soe caylee 6 mm; drupe yellow or reddish, ovoid, 6 6 8 mm, uimped with the 
short calycine limb. 
This species, which is occasionally a shrub of 3 to 4 feet and often even pros- 
trate as recorded by Hillebrand, is also a small tree 15 to 18 feet in height, 
especially on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at an elevation of 10000 feet, above the 
erater of Kaluamakani and on Papalekoki as well as Moano and Nau, a it 
grows in company with arborescent compositae such as Raillardia str thiol 
R. arborea, as well as with the leguminous tree, Sophora chr ysophylla, tie 
Mamani of the natives. It is decidedly a high mountain species, as it grows to a 
small tree on Mt. Haleakala on Maui, on the crater of Puunianiau in company 
with Mamani and Santalum Haleakalae, a species of sandalwood peculiar to that 
mountain. On Mt. Hualalai, Hawaii, 8000 feet, it is a shrub 4 feet high and 
erows with Dodonaea viscosa. The leaves are thick glabrous but almost succulent 
in all locations. 
Two varieties 8 and y occur in the high mountain swamps of Puukukui, West 
Maui, and Waialeale, Kauai, respectively. The varieties are prostrate, but ocea- 
sionally shrubby. 
Coprosma rhynchocarpa Gray. 
Pilo. 
(Plate 190.) 
seis Tectaaeargtee RHYNCHOCARPA etek in Proc. Am. Acad. IV. Scent 48;—Mann Proce. Am 
Acad. VII. (1867) 169;— in Flora (1874) pees . Fi. Haw. Isl. (1888) 
187;—Del Cast. Ill. Fl. i ite Pae. VI. (1890) 2 
oa Ser enaeh or obovately oblong, 4 to 7 em long, 15 to 25 mm wide, on istageae of 
6 t at both ends, sna ctseockk: papillos e to pubescent or sparsely h ispid 
eine alas: 5 to 7 mm, a loose funnel-shaped shout: the free portions triangular, 
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