168 RUBIACEAE. [Gouldia. 
Panicles terminal and axillary, very short; leaves short, subsessile, 
baie se at both ends and pubescent, thick, glossy, with a marked 
; tube of corolla 2” with exserted, or 6” with pins eg style 3. G. hirtella. 
panieics rece axillary and short; leaves thin, oe oe 
t underneath; tube of corolla pubescent, 2—3”; s 
exserte 4. G. axillaris. 
Berry large, ae in . diameter; leaves coriaceous, ovate « or obovate; 
panicles short macrocar pa. 
The native ae aa & species Sinioias name whites the Tahitians grits to the 
Stylocoryne suieberina. Gr., a Rubiacea of auciee habit. 
1, G. coriacea. — A tall glabrous shrub, the woody igs igh: faintly 
angular or lineate. Leaves obovate- -oblong, 3—5‘ & 1—13/4‘, shortly 
acuminate or obtuse, contracting at the base, but passing aetous into a 
not margined petiole of 1—3”, coriaceous, with faint nerves and without 
dlatinct rete, pale, glabrous. Stipules triangular obtuse to lanceolate, 
a6", Pani es terminal at the ends of the branches, more rarely on 
sxitlary leaf-shoots, round-topped, mostly nodding, ried long, in- 
clusive of peduncles of 3—9”, the lowest branches ent, 3—6“; the 
owest bracts linear- syabtrnlate: 2—6“, occasionally Peeeieea patie: 
dentiform. Calyx 1” or less. Corolla glabrous, the tube either 2—-3“ with 
lobes of the same length, or 4“ with lobes half as long, the latter thick 
leathery, almost triquetrous. Anthers subsessile near the throat, partly 
exserted in the longer flowers. Style as long as the tube, or shorter, bifid 
to 1/4 or 1/2 of its length. Berry bluish, globose, 2—2'/2“, with two faint 
longitudinal furrows. Seeds about 13 on each placenta. — Pre coriacea, 
Hook. & Arn. — G. Sandwicensis, var. coriacea, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. IV, 310. 
ac :Gaiiins ¥ var. g, form a, and probably also var. c, lanceolata, Wawra, 
in witli 1874, p. 295. — Kadua affinis, Ch. & S 
ahu! common on both mountain ran nges; Kauai! In cnt from the Kaala range 
the Soo are much pei and acute at the hae: with smaller panicles 
var. — Leaves larger, 4—7' « oe , bright green, thin charta- 
ceous, the large panicle open, mostly ere 
Oahu! Wailupe and Niu; Maui! Hamakua sot acute, on longer petioles of 
Var. g, form rm 8. Wa 
6—9"). — 
7~ var. — Leaves and ‘seh as in 8, but the former pubescent under- 
neath. 
Hawaii! (or Niu, Oahu)? 
3 var. — 
Leaves thin, pale and glabrous, but rounded at the slightly 
contracting base. Paice ea contracted, short, about 1‘ high 
and broad. Berries pale blu 
W. Maui, Olualu: 
e — Leaves pale, seule iorsiabad and large, 3!/2—5‘ < 23/4—3!'/2', 
on ak of 12-18", ad obovate and obtuse to suborbicular, with 
conspicuous 2 nerves. doe much elongate and open, about 5’ 
in length and curv 
