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3. M. Lanaiensis, sp. ». — Shrubby, 8—12 ft. high, glabrous through- 
out, the bark of the rather stiff branches wegen covered with lenticels. 
Lonves elliptico- or obovato-oblong, 3—3!/2‘ & 1!/4—1%/«', equally but 
moderately acuminate at both ends, on distinct petioles of 3“, pale, dull, 
membranous to chartaceous, not dotted, with large areoles and without 
marginal nerve, the veins uniting by irregular sinuous anastomoses. 
owers rameal and in the axils of leaves, on salient bracteolate gemmules, 
5—8 to each, on pedicels of 2-3“. Calyx 4—6-parted, the. obtuse lobes 
dotted. Corolla 2”, three times the length of the calyx, yellowish-brown, 
dotted and striate, parted to the base into lanceolate acute lobes or petals. 
Stamens about half the length of the corolla, the anthers sagittate. Stigma 
capitate on a very short style. Drupe globose, depressed, 2!/2—3", red- 
dish, with chartaceous putamen, 1-seeded with the rudiments of 2 or, 
3 ovules. Embryo arcuately curved in horny albumen. 
Lanai! in the scrub of the fore-hills. 
4. M. Sandwicensis, A. DC. 1. e. — A much branching shrub, 4—8 ft. 
high, the young branches and the inflorescence puberulous. Leaves 
scattering, obovate or spathulate, 7—12” s< 3—5", rounded or emarginate, 
quite entire, the cuneate base passing into a margined petiole of 1—2”, 
coriaceous, with hidden veins, quite opaque, rugose underneath, glabrous. 
Flowers all in axils of leaves, 3—7 in a cluster, on not protruding gemmae, 
the pedicels 2—3”. Calyx pubescent, 4—5 parted, with ovate lobes. 
Corolla pubescent, 4-parted to near the base, searcely twice as long as 
the calyx, 1'/2—2", yellowish, with red streaks, the lobes ovato-lanceolat e. 
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Stamens 1/2 as long as the corolla. Stigma oe ae fimbriate 
or radiate. Drupe black, globose or ovoid, 11/:—2"; on half of the single 
seed covered with remnants of the a per sacse horny. — Gray, 
l. ec. — Wawra, 
In i tea of mean eleyation, on all islands. 
8 var. denticulata. — Low, 2 ft. high. Leaves re seeonepenes only 
2” broad, acute, hh dentiulate toward the apex. — Wawra, l. ¢. 
Plateau of Waialeale, Kau 
2. EMBELIA, Burm. 
Calyx free, deeply 4—5-lobed. Petals 4—5, distinct, or cohering at the 
basé of the petals, not longer than these, with accrete filaments and 
short anthers which open lengthwise. Ovary superior, with 1—4 ae 
on a globose placenta. Style short; stigma capitate or slightly 1 
it a globose drupe with a single seed which is attached and ies 
excavated at the base. Embryo transverse, curved in smooth or wrinkled 
