186 RUBIACEAE, [Coprosma. 
Leaves obovate- or elliptico-oblong, 1!/2—2/ x '/2--3/4/, somewhat obtuse, 
or acute, the base contracting into a petiole of 3—5“, thick chartaceous, 
glabrous, shining, the nerves impressed on the er face. Stipules tri- 
angular or apiculate, 1“, faintly pubescent at the upper border. Peduncles 
2—6” long, either icity and single, or on short axillary spurs and 
then sometimes 2 or 3 together, slender, puberulous, bearing 3 or 1 sessile 
flowers at their ends, those of the male flowers generally shorter. Bract- 
lets linear or spathulate, 1—11/2“. Calyx of male fl. scarcely 4/2/', cup- 
ea in the fem. fl. the limb much shorter than the tube, not constricted 
808 base. Male corolla 3“, with 5—9 linear erect lobes; fem. corolla 
11/2", deeply parted into revolute ‘bei: Styles 3... Drupe small ovoid, 
ary range ses at the tr 
Hawai , Puna, Hilo t 
tay, in eatities oy present haga preceding pool ai so ea the ena that “the 
former were high mountai s of the present species, sar eae ainst this view stands 
the fact that C. Menztesté aie not roe found in the lower re; sof Maui or Kauai 
The slender elongate peduncle also of C. Me enz., although its an ets snd isworstieqcr: folia- 
ceous, is too much differentiated from the short and thick spur of C. 
. C. fo liosa, Gray, 1. ¢. p. 48. — An open shrub, 3—5 ft. high, with 
Pe terete glabrous branches. Leaves ellipti late, 1—21/2' Xx 
is ; oe at both ends, the base running ok wits a isapitied petiole 
of 3— 5”, chartaceous to membranous, glabrous. Stipules 1!/2—2”, trian- 
cleft to the middle into 6—8 ee Stamens 6—8. bettie generally single, 
ovoid or subglobose (obovate, Gray), 4 —5", crowned by short calycine 
teeth, bright orange- colored. - — Wawra, l. c. p. 317. — Euarthronia foliosa, 
Nutt. in herb. Hooker. f 
Oahu! on both ranges; Lanai! inl lokai! Kalae and Maunahui — a form with , 
small pe arrow, almost rhomboidal acute leaves and generally single drupes from the 
axils of i every leaf of the short ‘wale. the drupes smaller than in the other 
forms, rales oid. : 
must ae faa placed the ng aene deseribed C. Wa aimeae, safc . p. 327, 
i Stedieas uai; «drupis ternis Junculo axillari, agi! mque ‘geminato, 
a. perro tomy sehckatcg. cerasi pully eesti. eke Seathos coronatis». 
5. C. cymosa, sp. n. — A straggling shrub, 6—8 ft. high, with apse: a 
divaricate branches pubescent at the ends. Leaves broad oblong, 2—3' X ‘ 
1—1'/2’, on petioles of 2—6", obtuse at both ends, oe glabrate, ; 
the under side rather pale. Stipules triangular, 1'/2“, pubescent at the 
apex. Flowers single on long peduncles of 6-9“. or cymosely ternate, 
the middle one sessile, the lateral ones on adios of 2—5"; sometimes 
aye 
- fl. 
» With 6 sonene lobes. Styles 6”. Rote fl. Calyx 
