66 RUTACEAE. [ Pelea. 
ar.? — Leaves smaller, suborbicular, emarginate at the base, thick 
coriaceous, with prominent nerves, the marginal one nearer the edge, 
quite glabrous and shining, 2—21/2‘ >< 11/2—2‘. Inflorescence 3—7-flowered, 
with shorter pedicels which are little thickened beyond the nodes, and 
the rhachis rather stiff a — nearly as in P. Sandwicensis. Flowers 
smaller than in «. Capsule not seen. 
Oahu! Miu. Leaves as in = prorat all on long petioles. Collected also by the 
“U.P. Mannii, sp. nm. — A small tree. Leaves opposite, obovate, 
2'/2—3' X 11/2—2’, on petioles of 6—9", rounded, emarginate, coriaceous, 
the marginal vein separated from the edge by one set of meshes, the 
midrib pubescent. Flowers numero 20—50, on a ae of 1—11/2' 
in length with 3—4 nodes, divari ae branching from the base and at 
every node, the branches again repeatedly ose or at te, the 
timate pedicels 1—2’ long and thickened. ny a, of sterile fl. 2“, twice 
as long as the somewhat obtuse sepals. Stamens as long as the petals. 
florescence is not free £ dou t, 2 fev s sech me the same regio ith sit ilar 
leaves exhibit only 7—9 tne with thickened pedicels of the same length. Sma 
and rather glabrous P. voleanica e part of that island 
12. P. Sandwicensis, Goad c. p. 345, pl. 37. — A tree, 20—30 ft. high, 
the young shoots and inflorescence covered with a coarse gray pubes- 
cence. Leaves opposite, elliptico- or obovato-oblong, 3—6/ X 11/4—3‘, on 
pce of 1—1'/2', bluntly pointed or rounded, thick coriaceous, with 
rominent nerves, the marginal nerve near za lad petioles and midrib 
fens, occasionally hirsute. Flowers 9—18, on a cymose erect 
panicle of 9—18” in length with 3 (rarely 4 or a dacited. the stiff angular 
peduncle 3—9", the lowest branches with 1—2 nodes and the ultimate 
. pedicels only a1", Bractlets dentiform. Sepals puberulous, 1—1'/2. 
Petals glabrous, greenish-white, 2'/,—3” in the sterile flowers, about 1/2 
shorter in the — ones, Ovary puberulous. Capsule glabrate, coria- 
ceous, 4—8“ in the transverse, 3—5” in the vertical diameter, its carpels 
parted less oa halfway. Endocarp glabrous in all my specimens (pu- 
bescent according to Gray). Seeds 3”. Cotyledons rather thick, 2 ano- 
convex. — Mann, Il. c. p. 315. — ag Sandwicensis, Gaud. 0 
a. rate si & Arn. in Bot. Bee . 80. 
—— range, pare its western division. In the woods of 
Wotaae ‘ collected a & specimen with extraordinarily large oly 11‘ X 31/2‘. In Gray’s 
capsule is not coetebtty given, in fact it hardly differs there from that of 
P. voleanica on the next plate 
var. — Leaves thinner, chartaceous. 
midrib see sci cecal pte Oil-d 
‘“ transverse 
7 ak the 
Oah form » uai! (Kn,), and doubtful f 
R ‘orms With obtuse leaves on 
Mol to (italy ! and Pale Pileans and Hamakua)! ‘ 
» quite glabrous, even on the 
ots very conspicuous, Capsule 
