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arge, 3—4‘. Cotyledons thin, and flat on both sides. — Mann, 1. ¢. p. 315 
ps part). — iggsaign : Cop 
On all islands, but rare, occurring only in isolated individuals. Oahu! en 
Molokai! Mopulehu and ‘Halaw wa; Kauai! Kealia; Maui! Hamakua; La 
® var.? — Ovary and capsule fulvo-tomentose, the carpels or cocci of 
the latter cohering only at the base. Endocarp pubescent. Flowers 1—3 
on a long and slender peduncle. Leaves large, 4—6’  2—38/. 
Kona. 
7. P. macropus, sp. n. — A small tree, about 15 ft. high, quite glabrous. 
Leaves as in the broad-leaved forms of the preceding species, Bu; con- 
tracted and not emarginate at the base. Flowers single, on a short 
peduncle of 1-2”, which bears 1 or 2 pairs of minute Baia ie 
pedicels beyond them clavately thickened to the length of 
Petals greenish. Capsule nearly 11/2‘ transversely and 4” high, ee car- 
pels parted more than 3/2 their length (one-seeded in my specimens, and 
therefore pointed). 
Kauai! Waimea (Kn. 189). The thickening of the pedicel, already spose siege Ta in 
the iow increases after the lapse of the flowers, and attains a diameter of 11/2” 
the atures 
b Ly deatel sp. n. — Shrubby, quite glabrous. Leaves sessile, 
Bk and auriculate at the base, obovately-oblong, oe 4—5' 
X 2—2!/s/. Inflorescence and flowers as in P. oblongifolia 
Oahu! Palolo (Lydg.).. 
9. P. parvifolia, sp. — Shrubby, 5—8 ft. high, with closely foliose, 
short and ae crowded jo branches glabrous. Leaves small ovate or ovate- 
oblong, l!/2—2‘ 1 jz‘, on short petioles of 1—3", acute, subemar- 
ginate at the ps rather coriaceous, dull, darkgreen, the marginal nerve 
near the edge. Flowers 2, less commonly 1 or 3, on a short peduncle of 
1/z—2”, the slender pedicels 8—10“, nodose below the middle. Sterile . 
fl. large, quite glabrous, the acute petals 4—5“, three times as long as 
the triangular sepals. Ovary faintly pubescent. 
faui! Eeka, at an sng rg of 5000 ft., and oar aan Hawaii. A specimen 
latter island with larger leaves bears a deepl. that of P. ain 
P. Molokaiensis, sp. 1. — A small tree, aha 20 ft. high, the young 
Leaves 4—5‘ X 28/a—31/e' , on petioles of 
apex, the marginal nerve at some distance from the edge, Log one or 
two sets of meshes intervening. Flowers glabrous, 2—5 a cyme — 
or pseudo-raceme of 9—18” in length, the terete slender rhachis with 
2—3 nodes, the pedicels 5—6”, nodose near the middle and thickened 
beyond. Sepals triangular, 1/2", Petals reddish, 2'/2—-3“’. Capsule as 
in Zz volcanica, 10—18" transversely. 
€ prevailing form on Molokai! also on W. Maui! 
potent Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
