Alphitonia.]} RHAMNACEAE. 81 
acuminate, entire, — -nerved, with a gland at the base of each nerve 
lower face. Flowers 5—10 in an umbellate cyme on a common 
aes of peat 6“, the pedicels 3 — sh with minute ovate bractlets . 
the base. Calyx cup-shaped, 1'/2", parted to the middle. Petals n 
exceeding the calyx and enclosing the short stamens. Anthers adhe 
tyle very short, 3-lobed. Fruit subglobose, 3-grooved at the apex, 5“ 
in diameter, the calycine cup apt exceeding the lower third; the epicarp 
woody and not separating from the endocarp, therefore the cocci sepa- 
rating tardily and imperfectly, cae dissepiments thin and transparent in 
their lower halves. Seeds angular-convex. Cotyledons rather thick and 
eshy, neat ee slightly curved, nearly as long and broad as the 
thin albumen; the radicle short nga aeform. 
Hawaii! in the pay of S. ~heeege ; Oahu, S. W. ies of Kaala! Remy’s 
ssuaiiccie probably came from Ka Oak na’ me: Kau wila» 
. ALPHITONIA, Reissek. 
Flowers as in Ae the ovary 2—3-celled, ron: in a 2—3-fid 
style with obtuse lobes. Drupe globose or ovoid, invested below by the 
cup-shaped calyx-tube, with 2 or 3 pyrenae, the epicarp thick corky, the 
pyrenae or cocci woody or crustaceous, opening inward by a longitudinal 
slit. Seeds broad-oblong, plano-convex, enclosed in a thin arillus which 
is open at the apex, the testa hard, shining. Trees, with alternate 
parallel-veined entire hee teria and small deciduous stipules 
ari small, in terminal and axillary cymes. 
mall genus of 2 or 3 closely allied species, spreading from the Hawaiian Islands 
ehrongh all the groups of Polynesia to tropical Australia and thence to Borneo and the 
Philipi 
i. A. seals. sp: n. — A tall tree, often attaining 50—80 ft., the 
young branches tomentose. Stipules subulate, 3‘, soon caducous. Leaves 
ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 2—6‘ >< */«—2’, on petioles of '/2—1', 
generally acute, entire, coriaceous, with straight sobcictaiont veins and 
minute rectangular areoles, dark green and glabrous above, covered 
underneath with a short rust- or ash-colored tomentum, which however is 
often confined to the areoles only. Flowers in the axils of the youngest 
leaves, in short tomentose dichotomous cymes; the naked peduncles 
3—-5“, the thick angular pedicels 1'/2—3", shortly bracteolate at the 
base. Calyx cometee leathery, 3“ in diameter, the lobes prominently 
ridged and expanded. Petals half as long as the calyx-lobes, of delicate 
sage 4 spathulate and cucullate from a narrow flat base, enclosing the 
8 Anthers short ovoid, emarginate at the base, their cells 
OIREADT acute below but not pointed. Disk pentagonal. Style very 
short, 2—3-fid, surrounded by a few hairlets. Fruit globose, 7—9” in 
diameter, prominently ringed at the middle by the border of the adnate 
a almost indehiscent. Arillus a dark red separable film which envelops 
illebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 6 
