Pelea.| RUTACEAE, 61 
cotyledons. — Unarmed trees. Leaves simple, entire, opposite or whorled, 
with a more or less defined intramarginal nerve, dotted underneath with 
minute oil-glands and emitting a spicy odor. Fiswars in axillary, simple 
or compound, mostly paniculate cymes. 
aiian = probably also represented in the Samoa and Society Islands. 
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It pore Pebieioh sible to separate the Hawaiian Alanis into two genera. The reason 
hich induced Gray to oie them between Pelea and Melicope, viz., the supposed imbri- 
cate aestivation of the petals in some species with dist ine t cocci, me untenable, for in these 
e als are not imbricate “te the early bud, | h induplicate margins, 
and cohere firmly with their uncinat tips, as is s also” the case ite those species with 
united cocci or carpels. . cinerea and perhaps also in P. barbigera, which have 
rather b tals, the resistance offered by the coherent apex forces one or more 
road pe 
rae of the growing petals ou ga Srp expansion, but only near the sta rio 
or 
apices remain valvate to the As regards the syncarpous 
chante of the fruit, there is a weit transition from almost complete union to estes 
ratio 
rest affinity of our trees is, in my opinion, not with Melicope, a New Zealand 
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genus Pte which they are also widely separated geographically*, but with Acronychia, 
sw ran, from Malaysia far into the Polynesian island wor With 
latter they have in ¢ th ate d the terminal style, while the syncar- 
caps of P. sapotaefolia and P. anisata are 1 nt from those o! 
A. heterophylla and A. Richii, as figu Gray’s es tinct cocci 
th doca taches itself completely tite the ae aie mat , while the 
etween the lobes Hooker, fe LON 
liform bra: 
their styl short, with convergent lobes. the fertile flowers, on 
ish — a with spreading lobes is nearly of the length on the beta wie the 
much uced in size. erma ite flowers have been ryed in 
ne austienaes ea P. Sandwicensis, and ranee: occur in others, but wou cece to 
carpels are united in ry with a single terminal Style. As 
soon however as aire as fallen, t i able by the gor of the styles, 
riers to separate in consequence of increased grow wth of their axial s and are gra 
carried ou so as at last to pein lateral. The pla seme Aas oe 
fo! er this elongation, "30 that the — at length become pendulous from the 
meat: upper side of each cell or coccu: 
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Leaves whorled; capsule deeply dana : ; 
capsu ick : 2 1. P. clusiaefolia. 
> Waialealae. 
som Ww oe: 
cuboid, scarcely lobed, subentire: 
ie 8 broader than high, large, 12 transyersely . AE ag ot gst 
Capsule as high as broad, small, A 3 . 4 P. anisa 
Kage capes oT ae leaves cobwebb e mes Daisks penal 
Flowers sin. 
* Tam aware éaud describes three new isoegeralias of i ceagina in his ee 
Pl. Tah., but in the descriptions he fails to give the very ¢ which the cor. 
nds, 
of the diagnosis 
