72 RUTACEAE. [Platydesma. 
both sides. Flowers as in «. Style 4—5” long, Capsule nearly 12” 
high, 
Kauai! (Kn.) 
I have little doubt that to « bso Melicope spathulata, Gray, Bot. U. 8. E. E. p. 352, 
of which a single imperfect specimen was collected on Kauai by the naturalists of the 
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glabrous and orbicular, caren pe with thin margins, and strongly imbricate. Petals 
bicular and glabrous, strong y imbricate in the young bud. ing of anthers pinna: 
ular a labrous, its va Bae apparently distinct, or nearly s 
. P, cornuta, sp. n. — Shrubby, quite glabrous, the stiff erect branches 
civaaly ssthoes near the. ends, light-wooded. Leaves sees subsessile 
or on short petioles of 1—2", obovate or lanceolate, 8—16/ X 3—5‘, grad- 
ually narrowing toward the base but rounded off at fac chartaceous, 
with copious pellucid dots. Flowers 9—15 axillary subsessile cy- 
mose clusters, the pedicels 3”, minutely ae Sah below the middle. 
Sepals rounded, 11/2—2”. Petals 3 times as long, broadly lanceolate, 
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lobed above, with 7—8 ovules in each cell. Styles united into a single 
one with 4 stigmatic lines, but splitting at maturity ses the separation 
of the apices of the carpels. Capsule thin papery, 6” long, its carpels 
united in the lower half, only divided by shallow grooves, but their upper 
wide discreet and diverging, each eg in a sharp point. — Melicope 
andifolia, Wawra (but hardly of Gra 
Oahu! Halemano, Wailupe, Pauoa. — wan’ specimens derived from my collection. 
E. E 
Gray’s Melicope? grandifolia, Bot. U. S. . 354, came from the forests of Mauna 
Kea, Hawai f- shoots were ¢ llected ‘from a tree the trunk of which measured 
8 e description of the leaves agrees in the main wi f the 
pr — — Gay they pots a cuneate base and a pubescence of sparse hatte on the 
lower face. specim Herb. Gray. 
3. P. rostrata, sp. n. — Shrubby as before. Leaves opposite, sub- 
sessile, linear-oblong, 12—16' < 2—3', of nearly even width from the 
suddenly rounded base to the bluntly acuminate apex, dark green, 
brous. Flowers 12—20 in shortly pedunculate cymose clusters. Sepals 
2", puberulous. Petals 5”. Capsule 6“ long, ovoid, indehiscent (?), the 
carpels connate nearly their entire length, but the apices diverging and 
ending in subulate beaks of 4“ in length, the permanent styles; 8 seeds 
in each cell. 
Kauai! (Kn. 68). 
4. P, auriculaefolia, Hillebr, — An upright, light-wooded, sparingly branch- 
ed shrub of about 6 ft, in height, the subherbaceous branches distantly 
foli Leaves 3 in a whorl, subsessile, oblanceolate or spathulate, 
6—10' xe bluntly acuminate, rounded and somewhat auricled at 
