70 RUTACEAE. [Platydesma. 
with pedicels 3-4“ and bracteolate as before. Sepals and petals canescent. 
Ovary glabrous. 
Oahu! Niu. 
= var. — Leaves pubescent underneath, elongate and often acuminate. 
Flowers 3 — 5 on an elongate peduncle of 4—9”. Sepals 1'/2", petals 
2--3", both canescent and persistent. Follicles 4, chartaceous and 
sppetsmrerwbes: Paaiervagineae — Endocarp pubescent. 
okai! Kal au 
ne P; re roa — A small tree. Leaves elliptico- oblong, 
—5' K 2—21)2’, on petioles of 1—2‘, contracting but obtuse at both ends, 
green and shining above, beneath densely clothed, especially along the 
midrib, with a long cobwebby wool, which however disa appears with age, 
chartaceous, with faint nerves. Flowers 3—5 on a stiff angular gray- 
tomentose peduncle or rhachis of 8—16”, the Salhcdls 1—3” long and 
mae at the middle, the bracts and tiraotiobs unusually large for the 
genus, 4—3”. Sepals and petals gray-tomentose, the former ovate-acute, 
Vee the latter 2'/,—3”. Ovary sparingly pubescent. Follicles dis 
i e d 
dark, rather thin, concentrically striate (1-seeded in my specimens). Endo- 
carp glabrous. — Melicope barbigera, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 351, pl. 39. — Mann, 
lc. p. 316. 
Kauai! Waimea, at an Se i 3000 ft. In some specimens the peculiar pubescence 
is quite scarce and confined to midrib. To this species or to P. cinerea Aging ably 
ongs a form wien the Par locality (Kn. 59) which - the underside of the 
leaves covered with a uniform short and dense olivaceous tomentum 
20. P. Knudsenii, sp. n. — A tree, about 30 ft. ak the young shoots 
and inflorescence covered with a gray tomentum. eaves opposite, 
5—6’ K 3—4’, on petioles of 2—2! j2', ovate or ovate-oblong, cordate at 
the base, or the basal lobes connate, with the petiole subpeltately inserted 
_ above the base, bluntish, glabrous above, pubescent underneath, the midrib 
and nerves densely villous with a soft grayish wool, thin chartaceous, 
with the marginal nerve in deep arches. Flowers numerous, 20—40, in 
a large pyramidal panicle of 2—21 /2‘ in length with 3—4 pairs of divaricate 
longer. Disk 8-lobed, hairy. pare sparsely pubescent. 
Kauai! Waimea (Kn - 210), at an elevation of 1 
2. PLATYDESMA, —. pa auct. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 4, persistent, strongly imbricate (2 
exterior and 2 oo rounded. Petals 4, imbricate (either convolute, 
Hi petals with one margin over lapping, or one petal external and a 
——* one ce the two others with one margin each overlapping). 
