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the tube or rarely exserted. Ovary 2—4-celled, with 1 erect ovule in 
each cell. Style exserted, bifid or entire. Drupes or berries united into 
one fleshy fruit. Pyrenae or putamen cartilaginous. Seeds obovoid or 
reniform, with thin testa. Albumen fleshy. Embryo terete, with inferior 
radicle. — Shrubs or small trees or climbers. Stipules membranous, 
connate inside the Sipe Flower-heads on axillary or terminal, single 
or clustered pedunc 
A tropical genus, chiefly Asiatic and Oceanic, with a few African and 2 or 3 American 
species. 
Leaves oblong; corolla 3-toothed; fruit 1 inch in diam. j : 1. M. trimera. 
Leaves ovate; corolla 5-lobed; fruit § 38—4 inch in diam. : ; 2. M. citrifolia. 
1. M. trimera, sp. n. — A tree, 20 ft. high, with yellowish wood, the 
pale terete branches covered with numerous warts or lenticels. Leaves 
“a tn eoree or obovato-oblong, 4—6‘ > 1'/2—2'/4’, on petioles of 
1—1'/2‘, equally acumin at both ends; chartaceous to membranous, 
aia underneath, cnsktiads along the nerves and in their axils, 
almost black when dry. Stipules 3‘, acuminate, connate into a deep sheath, 
Peduncles in the axils of old leaves and cauline, 1'/2—2‘ long, pags 
bracteate at the base — the bracts connate, apinlate or subulate and 
le. Flowers 8—1 
often with'a pair of leaflets at the mi in a das ucie 
a 1—11/2", free ri the ovary, urceolate 
Covaite 4 coriaceous, p recaioaen, 
globose calyx, each pyrena with 1 erect seed, and the calices connate into 
a syncarpium which measures about 1‘ in diameter. 
Collected by Mr. Lydgate in the forests of Hamakua and Waikapu, Maui! 
8 var. — Leaves thicker, chartaceous, shining, obovate-oblong, obtuse. 
Calyx truncate, with 5—6 toothlets. Corolla occasionally 4-toothed, with 
4 anthers. Flowers 10—15 in a glomerule. 
Mt. Puakea of the Waianae range, Oahu! From a small specimen collected by Dr. 
Wawra, who has omitted to take — = the species in his published report, unless he 
should sha mistaken it for M. ¢ 
72. M. citrifolia, L. — DC. Prodr. IV, 446. — A small glabrous tree 
with as branches. Leaves broadly ovate, 6—8’ X 4—6‘, on short 
petioles, somewhat obtuse, thick. Stipules broad and rounded, 4—6", 
connate below into a loose sheath which encloses the peduncle. Flower- 
heads on short bractless peduncles placed opposite the leaves, - own 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islan 
