Rubiaceae. 
MORINDA Linn. 
Calyx eup- shaped truncate or toothed. Corolla salver- oo to campanulate. 
Stamens inserted in noes of the tube, included or exserted. Ovary 4-celled; style with 
bie branches. Drupe berries united into one fleshy fruit. ‘Seeds obovoid or reni- 
upes 
—tTrees or shrubs Meosaat sionally climbing and epiphytic but not in Hawaii) with 
baie ates leaves, and i ane aaeegted stipules, connate with the petioles. Flowers in globose 
heads, on axillary, terminal single or clustered peduncles 
The genus consists of about 46 species distributed over both hemispheres, but 
especially in the old world and the Pacific islands. Only two species oeeur in 
Hawaii, one of which is endemic. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
mmaves Oblong, fruit 2.5 eim-in: diameter... oo. <4 6 vr onde eee es be M. trimera 
Leaves ovate, fruit 5 to 10 em in ripe RRA gce sw wn Gate ak ON i Seer aie M. citrifolia 
Morinda citrifolia Linn. 
(Plate 194.) 
scoala CITRIFOLIA Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 1. (1758) 176;—DC. Prodr. IV. (1830) 446;— 
ok. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Seay: 65;—Endl. Fl, Suds, (1836) 176;—Seem. Flora 
vit (1866) 129 3—Mann Proce. Am, Ac. VII, (1867) 170;—Wawra in efenly (1874) 
=—.Mrs. Sincl. Indig. Fl. ean Isl. (1885) t. 40;—Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. — i 
tropa Cast. Ill. Fl. Ins. Mar, Pae. VI. (1890) 195;—K. hate. in En 
ages Pfizfam: IV. 4. oe 138;—Heller Pl. Haw. Isl. (1897) 901; Belek 
Ka Hana Kapa Mem. B. P. B. Mus. SVT. (1911): 144: fig. 87. 
s broadly ovate 15 to 20 em long, 10 to 15 em wide ort Age somewhat 
ee “ne: stipules broad and rounded, connate into a Sheath pend Teg eduncle; 
flowerheads 0 on short bractless oak uncles placed opposite the leaves; rane Og ‘im short, 
truncate; corolla white, tubular to funnel-shaped, 5-cleft, pilose a at the in rad ion of the 
sessile anthers below the middle of the corolla; synearpium 5 to 10 em, fles 
This well known cosmopolitan species, which Hillebrand believes to ei of abori- 
ginal introduction, occurs only on the lowlands in the vicinity of native dwell- 
ings, or now growing apparently wild but more correctly on overgrown for- 
Saken native dwelling-sites. The species has an exceedingly wide distribu- 
tion and is cultivated by the Polynesians as a dye-plant. It is also used 
medicinally by the Hawaiians and from the mature fruits they extract an oil of 
very unpleasant odor, used for the hair; ripe fruits are also used as a poultice. 
The wood is intensely yellow when fresh cut. The root yields a yellow dye while 
the bark furnishes a red dye. It is a small tree 15 feet in height with a trunk 
of usually a few inches in diameter; the leaves are large and shining and have 
impressed veins. The fruit when mature is foetid and of a yellow color. In 
Fiji the fruit is eaten either raw or cooked. The leaves are also used medi- 
cinally against diarrhoea and disturbances in menstruation, as well as for fever. 
Morinda trimera Hhbd. 
Noni-kuahiwi. 
(Plate 195.) 
MORINDA TRIMERA H Fl. Haw. ae (1888) 177;—K. Sehum. In Engl. et Prantl 
Pfizfam, IV. 4. Cn 148.—M, trinerva Del Ca fe Ti. Fl. Ins. Mak. Pac, VL 
BSS: 196, should be trimera, pire a misprin 
Bra s pale terete, covered with numerous warts ee lenticels; leaves elliptical or 
gia ais. Sele 10 to 18 em long, 3.5 to 6 em wide, on petioles of 2.5 to 3.5 em, acuminate 
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