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both faces, but the older leaves glabrate. Cyme tomentose, the peduncles 
3—6”, the pedicels 1—3". Calyx 2”, tomentose. viens oblong, tomen- 
tose or glabrate. on pruinose. ita 10—12". — Good-sized trees 
with angular br 
The eiaiicaue’ form in Kona, Puna and Hilo, Hawaii! Leaves ovate to obovate, 
obtuse or rounded at top, contracted or rounded, even a ae e at the base. Lanai! 
Maui, Molokai! Oahu! — Yellow fl. M. Lutea, Gray, 1. c. p. 560, pl. 69 A (not B) 
in forests of Hilo. 
es thinner, ovate to ovate-oblong, acuminate or somewhat obtuse, 
glabrous on both sides (even in early age), 1—2‘ >< 8/a—11/4‘, on mar- 
gined petioles of 3“. Cymes large and open, with calices faintly tom- 
entose or pruinose. Petals oblong. Stamens 6—9“. — Good-sized trees 
with terete branches. 
ahu! Kauai! (Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 2). Maui! (very small fl. from Wailuku and 
Kanapali.) Yellow fl. from Kula! Maui, and Konahuanui, Oahu (M. & B.). 
isi rid no. 16, which has broad obtuse glabrous leaves, but a thick woolly tomentum 
yme and ¢ som as in pa and _ forms a low prostrate shrub in the swamps of the 
high plateau of Kauai! 
‘;. Leaves narrow lanceolate or elliptico-oblong, acute at both ends and 
quite glabrous, range 11/2—2‘ XX 1/2—8/4‘, on margined petioles of 1—3“, 
Cymes large, quite glabrous, the peduncles 3“, the pedicels 1—2‘'; the 
oblong sath an ceeeal deep red, the latter 19 long. Capsules Tp, 
Handsome trees with terete bree’ and showy flower-cymes, called sborene ahihi» 
by the natives. In sheltered gulches on the lee-side of Oahu! and Ka 
rugosa, Gray, Bot. U.S. # Exp. p. 561, pl. 69 B (not re — A small 
banked tree or shrub with stiff angular branches. Leaves orbicular, con- 
tracting at the base, about 1’ in diam., thick coriaceous, rugose above and 
deeply impressed along the veins, which are remarkably strong and ridged 
underneath, the under surface thickly tomentose with a betray te wool ; 
the petiole scarcely 1. Cymes small, solitary or in pairs at the summit 
of the bra oe sted by short triangular bud-scales, te peduncles 
and their divis short and stout, thick tomentose. Bractlets as long 
as the calyx, soon s Seclahees Flowers subsessile, as large as in no. 1. 
Calyx tomentose. Petals and stamens red, the former pubescent. Ovary 
deeply immersed in the tube of the calyx, its summit only free. 
u! dry hills back of Honolulu and Niu. 
. M. macropus, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 83. — A large tree, 
glabrous throughout, the branches rather terete. Leaves distant, ovate 
or ovate-oblong, 2'/2‘ >< 11/2‘, on long petioles which measure 1—2', 
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their axis or divisions often prolonged in a foliose branch, the base 
a long time subtended, as are also the latest leaf-branches, by many 
scarious lanceolate bee scales of 1/2—1‘ in length. Cymes open, the 
