Pittosporum.] PITTOSPORACEAE, 25 
flat angular, crenulate or tuberculate at the back and edges. — Hairlets 
flat, long-attenuate at both ends, 1-celled, but much longer than in P. 
Kauaiense, and curled 
Oahu! Makaleha, Kaala range (M. & B. 601, and Lydg.). 
B var. fulv — Tomentum of a deep yellow-brownish or golden 
color. Pedundle of fertile fl. cauline, 4—10‘, bearing at the end a cluster 
of numerous subsessile flowers. Sepals 1/,—1”. Tube of corolla 3”. 
No capsule. 
Oahu! Ewa to Waialua. 
var. — Leaves obovate-oblong, 4—6/ & 2—2!/2’, obtuse or ot 
acuminate, with a more distinct petiole of 1‘, brow a tomentose as 
8, but strongly nerved underneath. Staminate fi. cauline in whoomias 
arms Sepals ovate, 2"; tube of corolla 5“. — P. ‘iadmalandee var, 
8, 
oe Mt. Kaala, and Kauai (U. S. E. E)). 
— Leaves obovate-oblong, ema acuminate, the 
ce in flakes or patches. Flowers of both sexes 
y ed in close uk at the ends 
of peduncles of !/2.—1‘. Bracts 21/2—3". Sepals 1/2, ovate, obtuse, 
tomentose. Corolla-tube 5—6” in the sterile and 4” in the fertile flowers. 
Ovary thickly tomentose. 
ahu! Kaala 
. P. Kauaiense, sp. n. — A tree, 30 ft. high or more, with spreading 
Se sei the young shoots pubescent with coarse strigose whitish 
air vas Leaves chartaceous, with p minent nerves, abovere- fey 
1*/2' 
6 var. flocculosum. 
pale strigose pubescen 
xis of inflorescence short, 
acts 21/2, the pedicels 1—1'/2”. 
Sepals lanceolate acute, tomentose, 1“. Corolla small in both sexes, the 
slender tube 2!/2—3!/2 “ vary tomentose. Closed capsules with appar- 
ently mature seeds small subglobose, about 6“ each way, with 4 deep 
longitudinal furrows, tomentose and roughish, but not tuberculate. Seeds 
—4" long, with smooth back. Flowers fragrant. Hairlets 1-celled. 
Kauai! mountains of Waimea (Kn.). <A sin r form is Knudsen’s no. 157, marked 
«stemless, with creeping brane. latter are slender and straggling, the leaves 
glabrate. It probably grew on the swampy high plateau, and offers an analogon to the 
varieties 8 and ¢ of Metrosideros polymorp 
8. P. insigne, sp. — A tall shrub or tree, 10—20 ft. high, with 
stiff ascending foitipee Leaves in distant whorls, thick chartaceous, 
brownish when dry, glabrous, REE OR acuminate, contracting into 
