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Coprosma.| RUBIACEAE. 187 
corolla 3. Stamens 6. Drupes bright orange, large, 4—5”, globose or 
somewhat compressed, naked at the apex or very shortly dentate. 
Haw aii! Hamakua and S. Kona; Oahu? Waianae range. 
6. C, stephanocarpa, sp. n. — A low rambling shrub with slender pale 
branches pubescent at the ends. Leaves lanceolate or eh 1—2'"/2' «K 
'/3—2/3', acute or acuminate, narrowing into margined petioles of 3—6“, 
thin chartaceous, with rather ise nerves, papillose a sparsely hispid 
underneath. sper: triangular, 2—2!/2“, ciliate, often hirsute with coarse 
brownish hair at the base hid upper border. Flowers either single or 
ternate in a cluster or cymelet, or more numerous in racemes, the slender 
common peduncle measuring from 1'/2 to 7“, the lateral flowers on pedi- 
cels of 1/2--2. Male fl. Calyx truncate, 1—1'/2”. Corolla 6-lobed, 2 to 
Qe", ae. fl. Calyx 2’, the deeply 6-parted limb constricted at. the 
base and longer than the globose tube. Styles 4”. Drupes generally 
single, yellowish-red, small globose, only 2--2'/2" in diameter, or obovate, 
with impressed apex, and bisulcate, crowned by the spreading, lanceolate, 
ag a lobes, which measure 1'/2—2“ in le - th. 
. Maui! at elevations of 3000—6000 ft. The s from the higher regions 
have smnater leaves, hirsu hat et ete and shorter, penta “a 36 wered peduncles, while 
d low r e flowers apt often anged in racemes or fascicles. 
+h hoe being larger te Gates (M. & B. 455). 
r. Kauaiensis. — Leaves obovate or suborbicular, 1—2' long. Pe- 
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pedicellate flowers in the axils of enlarged bracts. Calyx of the fem. fl. 
urceolate, 1'/2—2“, the funnel-shaped limb longer than the globose tube 
and parted to the middle or deeper into 5—6 lanceolate lobules. «Drupe 
small, nahi very obtuse.» — C. pubens, var. Kauaiensis, Gray, 1. c. 
Wawra, 1. 
Mountains of Waimea, Kauai! My a yeerygne are with flowers only; the character 
of the fruit is from Gray, who pide that it is naked at the apex; but the character of 
ot flowers agrees so well with that of @ that the venga of a crown in of 
specimens must “be attributed to an accident 
7. C. rhynchocarpa, Gray y, 1. c. p. 48. — A tall arborescent shrub with 
Spreading branches. Leaves elliptico- or obovately-oblong, V jo—2'/2 Xx 
*/4—1', on petioles of 3—12", acuminate at both ends, chartaceous, 
papillose underneath or faintly puberulous. Stipules 2!/:—3", 
a loose funnel- -shaped sheath, finally eaducous, the free portions triangular, 
puberulous, Flowers 3, rarely 5 or 6, subsessile at the end of a peduncle 
2—3"; the bracts 1—1'/2". Male fl. sometimes racemose. Calyx 
minute, 1a", truncate. Corolla 2“ long, 6—S-lobed. Fem. fl. Calyx 3”, 
the limb twice as long as the adnate portion and equalling the corolla, 
constricted below, tubular or funnel-shaped, with 5—6 small teeth, 
