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base, and smaller ones with a style fully ees long as the tube and bifid only to the 
middle. In the expanded corolla the apex of the inner lobes amd rather dorsal, 
as the inflected crumpled margins extend in piles and somewhat above 
5. B. Hookeri, Hillebr. — Branches and leaves glabrous. Flowers 
Single, on peduncles of 3—4‘ in length. Drupe larger, 4” in diameter, 
purplish, with 4 to 6 pyrenae. Otherwise as in no. 4. — Rhytidotus 
Sandwicensis, Hooker f. Icon. plant. tab. 1071 
Oahu! Wailupe and Makaleha, on exposed slopes. 
5. PLECTRONIA, L. 
Calyx-limb short, cupular, truncate, or 4—5-toothed. Tube of corolla 
short, the 4—5 lobes spreading, valvate. Stamens inserted near the 
throat, the ovate or oblong anthers affixed dorsally near the base. Style 
enclosed or exserted, with an entire ovoid or bifid stigma. Ovary 2-celled,. 
with 1 pendulous anatropous ovule in each cell. Fruit a globular or 
didymous drupe with crustaceous putamen or pyrenae. See 
oblong, with thin testa. Embryo in fleshy albumen, elongate, terete, with 
generally short cotyledons and superior radicle. — Shrubs with terete 
branches. Stipules one on each side, triangular, connate inside the 
petioles. Flowers axillary, in clusters or corymbose cymes. 
A considerable genus spread over tropical Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. 
. P. odorata, Benth. d} Hook. Gen. Pl. II, 110. — A tall glabrous 
Loa shrub. Leaves elliptico-oblong, sometimes lozenge-shaped, 23° 
* 1—1"/2', on petioles of 2’, acuminate or somewhat obtuse, chartaceous, 
dark green, glossy above. Stipules mucronate. Flowers in eymose phir 
of 1—1'/2’ in length, the common peduncle 3—9”, sometimes with a pai 
of minute bracts, the cymes irregular, bractless, somewhat cue: 
the median flowers on pedicels of 3—1”. Calyx 1”, dentate. Corolla 
white, 3“ long, 4—5-fid, ties at the insertion of the stamens, the linear- 
oblong lobes as long as tube or longer. Stamens exserted, as long 
as the lobes. Style a sels longer, glabrous, — a short ovoid stigma, 
or rather the 2 thick lobes coadunate. Fruit a fleshy drupe, obovoid, 
compressed, emarginate, gr Sasha on each a. 4“ high and 5“ 
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Islands, on note open slopes of mean elevation, rather 
of Hawaii and on E. Maui. Nat. name: «Walahee>. The species has been marenwent 
Tahiti, Sema Island, the Vitis, and Tanna of the New Hebrides. The flowers are sw 
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