188 RUBIACEAE. [Coprosma. 
Styles rather short. Drupe yellowish red, globose or ovoid, 3—4", 
crowned with the Jong (2—3”) beak-like limb of the calyx. — Wawra, 
l. c 5 
Hawaii! Kohala range and Mauna Kea. 
8. C. pubens, Gray, 1. c. p. 49 (except. var. 8). — A tall straggling 
shrub with divaricate angular branches. Leaves lanceolate or obovate- 
igi 2—5' X 1—1'/2‘, on petioles of 4—9”, acuminate, narrowing at 
e base, membranous or chartaceous, reticulate and agpee below, or, 
ve higher elevations, pubescent with a short pale down, dull and dark 
when dry. Stipules 2—4”, loosely sheathing on half their length, breaking 
away from the base at inet, the free portion triangular, strigoso-pubescent, 
pectinately ciliate on the upper border. Flowers numerous, glomerate 
at the apex of short peduncles which measure not over 1—3". Male fl 
1", Corolla 3—4" long, 6—T-lobed. Fem. ft. Calyx 1—1'/2", 
Sie etand. the very short limb dentate. Corolla 2“ long. Styles 9—8". 
Drupes reddish, ovoid or ellipsoidal, 4—6“ long, naked at the - the 
pointed apex projecting beyond the calycine scar. — Wawra l. ¢. 
waii! Waimea and elsewhere (drupes 6” ong) ; Maui! Lanai! Molokai! Gas 
(the peduncles ac leckbrtgs le pr Wawra’ S$ no. 2123, from the high plateau of Kauai, 
the two latter with s 
9 C. longifolia, Gray, l. ¢ p. 48. — A tall arborescent shrub with 
assurgent fistular branches, quite glabrous. Leaves ternate, elliptico-oblong 
or lanceolate, of even breadth in their greatest length, 2!/2—4' & !/2—1', 
on petioles of 6—9", acute at both ends, chartaceous, the brown veinlets 
distinctly reticulate underneath. Stipules rather thin, 3—6” long, connate 
into a deep and loose 3- ‘lobed sheath, which is early caducous by breaking 
from its base and by lateral splitting. Flowers 6— 15, glomerate at the end 
of axillary peduncles of 3—5’. Bracts 3‘, sometimes foliaceous. Male /l. 
Calyx 1“, vit egress: Corolla 3—4“, with 5—8 lobes. Stamens long 
exserted, 6—8". Fem. fl. Calyx urceolate, 2“, the lobes half as long a8 
the adnate ioontiens Corolla 2“, with revolute esi Styles 4—-6. Drupes 
ellipsoidal, my long, ela tipped with the short calycine teeth. — 
Wawra, I. . 324 
Oahu! ae : Haw ! Kohala range; Kauai (Wawra). —- Neither Gray nor 
Wawra mention ra fe ternate poston of the ee which is constant in all my specimens, 
as also in M. & B.’s no. 132 ed specimens turn dark, almost black 
8 var. — Drupes snail a bose, GEO 2—21/2’ in diameter, crowned 
by a tubular bes : eo cleft calycine limb of 1'/2” in length. Leaves 
rather broad, 2 Se a | 
Lanai! The sails pene t shape of the fruit, similar to that of C. stephanocarpa, 
would justify a 
mcyaagenl of this form from C. longifolia, were not leayes and stipules 
too much like those of the latter. 
