Gouldia.| RUBIACEAE. 167 
On rocks near the seashore in Waikolu, Meeeket and Hana Kauai! A single 
damaged corolla only was available for examination; the See oft the anthers, shape 
of corollar lobes and relative length of style remain chavotbns donb 
2. GOULDIA, Gray. 
Calyx oboyoid, with 4 persistent teeth. Corolla sdtvee-chapiea coria- 
ceous, with a slender tube and naked throat, the 4 lobes thick, linear- 
oblong, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4, inserted in the throat or tube 
of the corolla, the linear anthers affixed to short filaments at their backs, 
enclosed, or exserting the pointed connective only. Disk annular. Ovary 
2-celled. Style slender, with 2 filiform branches. Ovules many, on thick 
placentas which are attached to the middle of the septum. Fruit a fleshy 
indehiscent drupaceous berry, globose, bisuleate, with flattened top and 
vertically compressed, suborbicular or angular, peltate, with a crustaceous 
black testa. Albumen dense mbryo straight, with small cotyledons 
and elongate radicle. — Haake or small trees with obtusely gan baat nea 
branches. Leaves with arched confluent nerves. Stipules soli on 
each side, inter- and intra-petiolar, caducous. Flowers small, purplish- 
green, in terminal or axillary cymose panicles, with dentiform Ley 
are formed; consequently there are no 2-edged or 2-lined branches as 
always 4 angles or lines, to which the median fascicle of the petioles sometimes 
2 additional fainter lines. 
The seeds are much larger than in Kadua, less numerous (8—22 to a placenta) and 
always peltately attached. 
our of the following species were comprehended as varieties under one polymorphous 
ray, and to these varieties Wawra has since added 8more. Iam y aw 
tu a 
that forms of transition connect most of them, is wh 
all leading Ha waiian genera. As defined here, they aude sin natural groups, in whi 
the grea well provement must be expected 
ps. 
+ 
eteat number 
from an increase rather than a decrease in the number 0 
Berry small, no diameter : 
Panicles Rime pe sometimes axillary leaf-shoots 
Panicle short; leaves ob obovate, contracted below, pale, coriaceous ; : 
coroll 1. G. cortacea. 
Panicle and upper "intemodes elongate; Teaves variable, bu t 
eee rome pute cute, rginate 
unded 
rolla 4—6”; aie senso 2. G. terminalis. 
