Bobea.} RUBIACEAE. 173 
one — occur exactly in ~ parallel genus Timonius, as circumscribed in the Genera 
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of the corolla in the 4 and 5 species is owing to the greater development of the obovate 
lobes ie deps bud, and exists to a less degree also in the first species. 
called «Ahakea» by the sabia and in the forests can be recognized from a 
Piivectars “i their ae green folia: 
Limb of calyx cup-shaped, sat niae: drupe with 3 to 11 pyrenae: 
Leaves pee ature erec Hh ies 1. B. elatior 
eaves hairy underneath; ‘Pedunele drooping : : ‘ ‘ 2. B. Mann 
Limb of calyx cup-shaped, toothed . 3. B. timonioides. 
Limb of a honeagg ‘oed: lobes of corolla crumpled : 
Flowers ; drup: with 2 pyrena ‘ : : 5 B. pence 
ln ami ig eae peli 4 to 6 ee . B. 
1. B. elatior, Gaud. . Freyc. p. 473, tab. 93. — A glabrous tree, 
20—30 ft. high. Leaves Saas obovate- sidan 2—4‘ X 1—2', on petioles 
of 3—12’, acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, 
4—6", rather convolute in Bee a Flowers 3 to 7 in a cyme, with a 
common peduncle of 2—3’, the pedicels of the lateral flowers 6—9”. 
Bracts and ster = a low. Calyx 2—2!/2”, the cup-shaped 
truncate limb as long as the adnate sortie Corolla coriaceous, greenish- 
cat glabrous, or th lobes in the bud faintly silky near the apex, the 
e 2—4”, plicate at the throat, the obovate or rounded lobes Wate" 
ere external and two internal. Anthers sessile at the middle of the tube. 
Style 3—11-cleft. Drupe Seg fleshy, purplish, ovoid, 3°’, faker bears 
crowned by the calycine lim hich ROT a glabrous disk of 1” in 
diam. i Ya 3—11, aces complan — Gray, |. c. p. 36. — 
Burn i aidichanaliy Ch. & Schl. in pint W, p. 189. — Timonius 
ene DC. Prod. IV, 461. 
Oahu! on both mountain ranges; Kauai? — The petioles as well as the ealyces are 
very loosely jointed at their bases and therefore apt to falt off the dried specimens, 
is also the case to a less d in the other species. Chamisso states, — in 
error, that the 3-flowered poe bear fertile and the 7-flowered ones sterile 
8 var. brevipes. — Leaves ovate-oblong, 2—3' 1/e—1', on petioles 
of 2—3”, pubescent beneath on midrib and nerves. pivaiis 3” long. 
Flowers solitary on peduncles of 3“. Drupe 3“ in diam., with 4 pyrenae 
— B. brevipes, Gray, 1. ¢. 
Oahu(U. S. E. E.). — The Ahakegs of Pauoa, Oahu! with obovate leaves like those 
of a, but slightly pubescent along the median nerve, bear single flowers on a peduncle 
of 12-20", the drupes being large, 5—6” in diam 
2. B. Mannii, sp. n. — Leaves ibe chicas, 3 —3' X 1— Ps, 
petioles of 2—21/2 ae he nerves, ribs and petioles hirsute with a 
colored hairlets, Peduncle (in bud) drooping, 3-4” in length, 3-flowered, 
the lateral flowers on pedicels of 2“. Calyx cylindrical, 2“, with truncate 
limb. Corolla 2 or 3 times as long, pubescent, as are also calyx and 
ped 
uncle, 
Kauai, Kealia and Waimea, 2000—3000 ft. (M. & B. 621 in hb. Gray). 
