Pelea.| RUTACEAE. 63 
var. — Leaves as in «, but on short petioles, capsules small as in 8. 
Molokai! Maui! Hawaii! 
In mag tasieiae at baa a specimen was collected from a straggling shrub which had 
een flow: r fruit, with leaves whorled, subsessile, oblanceolate and acuminate, thin 
ceous. Probably jdentical with the var. of Gray from Hawaii, but likely to be 
easton distinc 
2. P. Waialealae, Wawra, in Flora, 1873, p. 108. — «A low shrub with 
slender straight branches, 3 ft. high, the young shoots bhatt ho, other- 
wise glabrous. Leaves ermal lanceolate, 3‘  1'/2‘, rather oblique, 
acute, thin coriaceous, gradually narrowing into a margined petiole. Flowers 
fasciculate, oe, pit the pedicels bibracteolate near the case and 
als broader than high, penni-nerved. Petals 
ise: 3 Tacs as Ay puberulous at the base. Ovary glabrous. 
Capsule scarcely measuring '/2‘, deeply parted, thin chartaceous, green, 
the cocci globose and skated reticulate, kecled along the sutures.» 
Kauai, on the high plateau of Waialeale, 6000 a). 
3. P. sapotaefolia, Mann, in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X, 312. — «A 
small tree, about 20 ft. high, much branched, the young leaf-buds hirsute. 
Leaves large, 4 or 3 in a whorl, elongate-oblong or spathulate, pale 
chartaceous, with almost horizontal parallel nerves, the marginal nerve 
rather close to the edge and subcontinuous, 4—9‘ & 2—3’, obtuse or 
emarginate, narrowing but rounded at the base, on petioles of 1!/2—2', 
villous-pubescent beneath, at least along the rib, quite glabrous above. 
Flowers in axillary diuators, the peduncle less than 1“, the pedicels 2—3", 
bracteolate at the base. Sepals ovate, 1'/2“. Petals ovate, 2—2'/2". 
Ovary glabro us. Style as long as the petals, cpaned nearly to the base, 
a divisions clavate and stigmatic near the summit.» 
ai! Kealia and Hanalei (M. & B., and Wawra). 
8 var. — Leaves opposite, coriaceous, the nerves prominent beneath and 
cobwebby. Capsule chartaceous, quadrangular, 10—12” in the transverse 
diameter, 6“ high, subentire, only slightly notched at the middle of eac 
side, the carpels cohering with their axis even after dehiscence which 
affects the upper and lower suture. 
Kauai! Waimea (Kn.). 
var.? procumbens. — Low shrubby, with trailing, distantly foliose, sub- 
herbaceous branches. Leaves opposite, elliptico-oblong, acuminate, con- 
tracted at the base, the marginal nerve quite near to the edge, glabrous 
oe a Flowers 9—15, in a short compound cyme or binodose 
nicle which branches from the base, the slender rhachis 2—4”, 
ne eat pedicels 3—4”, the lateral ones nodose at the middle. Sepals 
l'/2", petals 2“. No capsules seen. 
nbs on the high plateau back of Waimea (Kn. 165). 
