Wikstroemia.| THYMELAEACEAE. 387 
below. Style 1/2 as long as the ovary, which reaches the middle of the 
tube and is hairy at the apex. Drupe oboyoid, 5—6”, 
W. Maui! on ridges near Wailuku. 
5. W. bicornuta, sp. ». — A tall shrub or small tree with short and 
stiff branches, the youngest fusco-tomentose, tufted in the uppermost 
axils. Leaves dark-green, thick chartaceous, spud pubescent underneath 
along the prominent sean obovate- or ovate-oblong, obtuse at either 
end, 21/2—31/2/ < 11/2—21/s’, on petioles of 4—6", Flowers clustered at 
the end of a short (1—2“) and thick peduncle, the aabginbrate and rather 
thin rhachis not lengthe sie daragirernt the pedicels 1—1'/2.. Perianth 
5—6, with lobes 1/s the length of the tube, faintly pubescent, finally 
-. breaking away from the ee Lower stamens in the upper third of the 
tube. Scales 2 or 3, oblong, as long as the ovary, 1 or 2 of them bifid. 
Ovary pubescent above, clavate, generally bifid at the apes, each division 
bearing a subsessile capitate stigma, but one generally rudimentary. Drupe 
ovoid, 6“, orange-colored, with a smooth arc s putamen. Seed 
pendulous Peis a short funis, with a thin integument, exalbuminous, the 
superior radicle short and terete, the thick pore as plano-convex, 
Highest ridge of Lanai! — The singular appearance of the ovary probably pao 
or an ataval remnant of a 2-celled state, as it spor in the S$ sigh 
rises from low ow 
one. Not having examined cok flowers, Iam unable to state whether the ovary in its 
ppd stdin is really cob ae The fruit exhibits an undivided apex with a lateral 
r in place of the second pis 
6. W. uva ursi, Gray, I. c. p. 304. — Low, scraggy, 2—4 ft. high, ferru- 
gino tomentose, tufted in the upper axils. Leaves crowded, broad obovate or 
ovate or suborbicular, !/2—1!/2‘ < 1/s—1‘, on petioles of 1”, = even 
retuse, glabrous, coriaceous, brownish when dry, with obse veins. 
Flowers in a subsessile terminal cluster, at last lengthening cy a short 
more or less puberulous, the obtuse lobes nearly * je the length of the 
tube. Lower stamens at the middle of the tube. Scales (two 2-cleft 
according to Gray) linear, much shorter than the ovary, which is almost 
glabrous and sometimes presents one or more knobby prominences at the 
apex. Style short; stigma globose. ene globose, about 3” in diam. 
On dry grag of the leeward sides: Ka uneiet Remy, M. & B.); Oahu, near 
Honolulu (U. 8. E. E.); Molokai! Kalae se “Hal 
8 var. benifit ia. — Leaves as before. Lobes of perianth A acute, 
the two inner much‘ smaller than the outer ones. Style long, with small 
. Ovary knobby at the apex, as before. — W. buxifolia, Gray, 1. ¢. 
meio Puna, near the coast (U. 8 
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