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A tree 10 m.-20 m. high, dividing freely into ascending 

 branches ; bark brownish, with shallow, narrow longitudinal cor- 

 rugations about 3 mm. thick, trunk up to 45 cm. in diameter four 

 feet from the ground; leaves coriaceous, obovate-oblong, 14-18 

 cm. X 4.5-8 cm., on petioles of 2.5-3 cm., alternate, estipulate, 

 quite glabrous with age, some pubescence remaining on the 

 sides and angles of the midrib and veins, especially on the lower 

 surface, shining above, dull beneath, midrib prominent, with 

 lateral veins leaving midrib at wide angles (about 80 in center 

 of leaf) parallel to margin and connected by a continuous intra- 

 marginal nerve, young leaves densely covered with appressed 

 brown hair on both surfaces; flowers in clusters 2 or 3 (?) on 

 tomentose pedicels, 12-20 mm. long; calyx 5-parted to near the 

 base, lobes imbricate, acuminate, 3-5 mm. ; corolla light yellow, 

 long'er than the calyx, 4-5 parted to the base, lobes acute ; stami- 

 nodia half as long as the lobes, linear, w'ith a faint nerve ; stamens 

 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, glabrous ; anthers erect, 

 ovate, the cells confluent at the apex, opening laterally; ovary 

 hirsute, 5-celled, style short-conical ; fruit a purple or black 

 plum-like berry 4.5-5.5 cm. X 3.5-4 cm., rather fleshy, 3-5- 

 seeded ; seeds enclosed in a papery pyrena, 25-30 mm. X 12-14 

 mm., flat, beaked at both ends of the ventral angle, which is oc- 

 cupied by the scar of the raphe, the crustaceous testa thin, of a 

 light brown color. 



This tree was discovered by Dr. H. L. Lyon, pathologist of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, in the woods of 

 Nahiku, Maui, at an elevation of 1300 feet, where he collected 

 the type material. Dr. Lyon observed one large tree at Kailua, 

 Maui, which had a straight trunk fully 30 feet to the first branch. 



The type is number 6061, given by Dr. Lyon for the herbarium 

 of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 collected January 15, 1909, at Nahiku, Island of Maui. 



Lysimachia glutinosa Rock Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. 37:300, 1910. 



Frutex 10-12 dm. altus; folia alterna, chartacea, obovato-ob- 

 longa, acuminate, 38-102 mm. longa, 12-30 mm. lata, petiolis lon- 

 gitudine 12 mm. ; pedicelli axillares, ex axillis foliorum super- 

 iorum; calyx fere usque ad basin partitus; corollae rotato-cam- 

 panulatae, albae, lobis 5-8, ovatis ; capsula lignosa, ovata, 5-10 

 valvis dehiscens ; semina numerosa. 



A diffusely branching shrub 10-12 dm. high, glutinous; leaves 

 alternate, chartaceous, entire, obovate-oblong, acuminate, 38-102 

 mm. X 12-30 mm., narrowing into a winged petiole of 12 mm., 

 upper face covered with a glutinous exudation, underneath glab- 

 rous and pale with prominent nerves ; inflorescence viscid ; flow- 



