Reynoldsia.} ARALIACEAE, 155 
or secondary branches. Calyx 11/2’, cup-shaped, tomentose. Petals 5—8, 
tomentose, cohering at the apex, 3—4" long. Stamens 4! times as many 
or less in one circle, recurved. Ovary 7—13-celled. Stigmas feito 
at the apex of a short persistent stylopod of about 1” in length which 
rises abruptly from the truncate vertex. Fruit globose, 3—-5“ in diameter, 
many-ribbed when dry, with 7—13 flat and closely contiguous chartaceous 
pyrenae. 
aii! Puna; Maui! ean Molokai! Kalauwau; at elevations of 1000 t 
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0-ce rupe of 5” in di 
only 5—7 smaller petals with 17—19 stamens and a 9—13-celled drupe of 5” in diam 
The tree is easily recognized from a distance y its pale foliage. 
. T. Waimeae, Wawra, in Flora, 1873, p. 158. — A tall smooth-barked 
with an erect trunk of 30—40 ft., sparingly dividing near the summit 
into short ascending branches, dabaken: Leaves 1—1'/2 ft. Phys BE 
5—13, oblong or ovate-oblong, 4—6'‘  l'/2—2‘, on petioles —9", 
obtuse, with rounded, the lateral ones with unsymmetrical nly charta- 
ceous to coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescence a terminal umbel of 10 to 
12 rays, with or without a short common rhachis, each 4—6' long and 
bearing at its apex an umbel of 15—20 flowers on thick and long pedicels 
of 1—2’, Calyx 4—6” long, broad tubular, slightly constricted below the 
avy. denticulate border. Petals 7—8, triangular-lanceolate, 6” long, 
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Ovary 7—8-celled, the stigmas on a short stylopod of '/2“. Drupe globose, 
8—9" in diameter, somewhat fleshy, strongly ribbed when dry. Pyrenae 
compressed, separated by pulp, thick coriaceous, deeply notched at the 
upper inner angle, with a rather sharp back and 2 prominent ridges on 
eac ide. 
Woods of Waimea, Kauai! (Wawra and Knudsen). Wawra remarks that he has seen 
2 ovules in a few cells. : 
. REYNOLDSIA, Gray. 
Calyx-border very short, wavy. Petals 8—10, broadly inserted, valvate. 
Stamens as many as petals and shorter, the filaments a ve the 
base of the linear incumbent anthers. Ovary 8—10—22-celled. Stigm 
sessile on the conical apex or raised on a short poeta igen in a 
circle. Drupe somewhat fleshy, globose. Pyrenae laterally compressed, 
papery or crustaceous, thickened at the bac Embryo minute, at the 
apex of an even fleshy albumen. — Unarmed glabrous trees with alter- 
nate impari-pinnate leaves, without stipules; the leaflets sinuate-crenate. 
Flowers polygamous, racemoso-umbellate on the alternate branches of a 
terminal panicle. Pedicels not jointed. Bracts minute linear. 
