82 RHAMNACEAE. [Gouania. 
e whole seed and opens by a transverse slit at the top. Cotyledons 
eee oblong; radicle papillaeform. — A. excelsa, Mann. Enum. no. 
-- - inclair, pl. 25. 
slopes of the leeward sides on all islands, but nOwhes Pergeme: eg aber. 
Waimea, Kauai, where it attains a g island (Knud- 
sen); Oahu! Kaala; soph kai! Maunatoa Lanai! M [aui! Ulupalakua; Haw ai ! Kau 
and S. Kona. Nat. na «Kauwila». — The wood is remarkable for pen grain, hardness 
and heavy weight, on “wide Gouget the natives preferred it for making spears, mallets 
for beating «kapa», and other tools. It turns black with age 
Our tree was referred to A. excelsa, Reiss., by Mann, together with the Tahitian A. 
zizyphoides and the Vitian A. franguloides, Gray, but it differs the larger ka which 
is invested by the calyx-tube up to its middle and beyond, while in the smaller fruit 
of the other species (size of a pea, Hk. & Arn., 4—5’ in diam., Gray) the calfx hardly 
toides and A. zizyphoides. Some flowers have a short truncate style, indie ating polygamy. 
3. GOUANIA, L. 
Calyx cohering with the ovary, 5-lobed. Disk ee 5-angled or 
produced in 5 horns. Petals 5, inserted under the margin of the disk, 
and enclosing the opposite minute slay Ovary 3-, rarely 
2-celled. Style 83—2-fid, with minute stigmas. Fruit coriaceous, inferior, 
crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, 3-(2-)winged, the calycine 
covering enclosing 3 or 2 woody indehiscent cocci which separate from 
the axis. Seeds plano-convex, obovate, with a horny and shining testa 
often climbing and tendril-bearing, with alternate leaves and deciduous 
stipules. Flowers polygamous, small, in terminal-and axillary spikes or 
racemes, or in cymes. 
A genus of 30 species, natives of tropical America, Asia, Africa and Polynesia, absent 
from Australia. 
Inflorescence oe sen leaves entire; no ¢ 
Calyx d cama, with spreadi ng lobes; eapsule winged in 
its eats 
Calyx ca capa the se produced beyond the ovary; capsule 
wing! t portion . 2. @. Hillebrandi. 
Infi g p ; leaves notched ; citthi i prese 
terminal on nae shoots ; leayes tomentose ; " eects 
é 3. G. Bishopii. 
Spikes axillary ; " leaves glabrous; eirthi involute i é : 4. G. vitifolia. 
1. G. orbicularis, Walp. Rel. Meyen. p. 323. — An erect shrub, 
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1. G. orbicularis. 
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x 111}! , on pom petioles of 1—11/2‘, shortly dat quite 
re, glabrous on both sides, chartaceous, penni-nerved. Stipules 
scarious, subulate, ae . Dyes axillary, puberulous or glabrate, 
racemoso-paniculate, Lf—2' in length, 5—7-, rarely 9—13-, or by 
