Vallesia. | APOCYNACEAE, 297 
The «Hoolei» of the natives, scattering but rare in the open oar of the lower and 
middle regions on all islands; rather frequent above Makawao, Ma 
6 var. — Leaves opposite, 7—9'  2'/2—3‘, on REE: of 1—11/2’, 
— with prominent nerves. Cymes densely- flowered. 
u! Nuwanu. Probably, the same form as Wawra’s 1866, b, from Hanalei, Kauai, 
‘shsich “on a drupe of the same size as that of @, but obovate and rounded at the top. 
4. VALLESIA, Ruiz & Pavon. 
Calyx 5-cleft, glandless. Corolla salver-shaped, without scales at the 
constricted throat, the 5 lobes shorter than the tube, oe Anthers 
enclosed, not appendiculate, longer than their filam Disk none or 
beer re. Carpels distinct, cohering at the apex. nee 2 or 4 in each 
carpel, So cunaee superposed in pairs on the ventral suture, Style 
filiform, enclosed, with a thickened cylindrical stigma. Drupes 2, discreet 
(one often abortive), diverging, oblong, often incurved, with a dry coria- 
ceous exocarp and a cartilagineous or thin woody endocarp, the ventral 
suture protruding within. Seed single, conformate to the cavity, with a 
thin testa, furrowed on the ventral side for the reception of the sutural 
dissepiment or placenta. Albumen ruminate, fleshy or corneous. Embryo 
axile, with oblong plano-convex cotyledons and a long inferior radicle. — 
Shrubs or trees. Leayes alternate, petiolate, with axillary glands. Flowers 
in terminal but by nahi ce of the axis often lateral cymes. 
A small genus of 2 American species, one of them extending a Chile and Buenos 
Ayres to Mexico and Florida, ‘a which i . be added the follo 
ocarpa, sp. n. — A small gnarly tree, 15—25 ft. high, with 
short and thick pale diverging branches and a very tenacious milksap 
Leaves obovate or Sa oblong, 3—9/ X 1'/2—4', on petioles of? ln —2, 
rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with revolute margins, pale, sliabroth and 
glossy, the veins suasiuaie perpendicular to the midrib, strictly parallel 
and connected by an intramarginal nerve. A single large scale-like concave 
or cup-shaped gland in each axil. Cymes contracted, 6—12-flowered, 
Tea the thick angular pedicels very short, with squamaceous bra 
yx coriaceous, 1“, with short obtuse lobes. Corolla pale yellow, 
the leylinavieal tube 3—4“, with a few ues inside, constricted at the 
throat, the obtuse suberect lobes 1—1'/2. Stamens inserted below the 
throat, with very short filaments, the anthers acute, emarginate at the 
base. Style nearly the length of the tube, the short cylindrical stigma 
emarginate. Carpels cohering at the see ah each with 2 ovules 
attached to the middle of the ventral sutur pes dry, obovoid, . 
long and 1‘ broad, compressed in the ventro- pete axis, narrowed, alm 
stipitate at the base, horizontally diverging. Pyrenae thin and soft- wae 
