in Kona, slope of Mt. Hualalai, elevation 2000 feet, and on the slopes of Mauna 

 Loa, land of Keauhou, at an elevation of 4000 feet, near Kilauea volcano ; on the 

 Parker Ranch near Waimea, and also on Molokai. 



The fruits of this, as well as other species, were used by the natives for catch- 

 ing birds, and was spoken of as the "he kepau kapili manu," or bird lime. The 

 wood is very soft and of no value. Pisonia inermis extends over the Society, Gam- 

 bier, Fiji, and Tonga groups, as well as Australia and Ceylon. It forms part of 

 the beach forests of the Andaman Islands. The fresh leaves are used in India 

 medicinally to subdue elephantiac inflammation in the legs or other parts. It 

 is not uncommon in New Zealand, where it is called "Para-para" by the northern 

 Maoris. 



LAURACBAE. 



The family Lauraceae is distributed over the tropical and subtropical regions 

 of both hemispheres. It consists of 39 genera, with about 950 species. The 

 genus Cassitha, also occurring in the Hawaiian Islands, is the only genus with 

 parasitic species, which reminds one very much of the Dodder or Cuscuta species. 



In these islands only one genus (Cryptocarya) has a single arborescent repre- 

 sentative, which is peculiar to Kauai and the Waianae range of Oahu. 



CRYPTOCARYA R. Br. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Tube of perianth, after flowering, constricted. Staminodia 

 of the 4 circles ovate, shortly stipitate. Fruit dry, but entirely enclosed within 

 the fleshy periantheal tubes. Testa of the seed hardly separable from pericarp. Flowers 

 small in short axillary panicles. Trees with alternate penninerved leaves. 



The genus Cryptocarya, which consists of about 40 species, reaches its best de- 

 velopment in South-east Asia, especially Java and the Sunda Islands. A few oc- 

 cur in South Africa, nine in tropical Australia and a single one in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. Ten species are American, especially Brazilian. To this genus belongs 

 Cr. inoschata Mart., the American nutmeg. 



Cryptccarya Mannii Hbd. 

 Hollo. 



CRYPTOCARYA MANNH TIbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 382; -Del Cast. 111. Fl. Mar. Pac. 

 VII. (1892) 278; Heller PI. Haw. Isl. (1897) 826. Oreodaphne? Mann in Proc. 

 Am. Ac. VII. (1867) 199. 



Branches angular, the young leaves and inflorescence silky with a brownish tomentum; 

 leaves thick coriaceous, glabrate, oblong 7 to 10 cm long, 30 to 40 mm wide, obtuse, nar- 

 rowing at the base, the flat midrib prolonged into a flat margined petiole of 8 to 16 mm; 

 panicles or racemes axillary, 12 to 18 mm long, few flowered; flowers hermaphrodite; 

 perianth silky outside and within, funnel shaped 4 to 5 mm; lobes 6 in two series, the 

 inner ones larger, rounded; stamens 9 of nearly equal length, the 6 outer ones inserted at 

 the base of the lobes and shorter, anthers longer than the broad hairy filaments; the 3 

 inner anthers extrorse, ovoid, alternating with broad triangular staminodia. Ovary 

 free, ovoid; style short obtuse; drupe ovoid globose, bluish-black, about 16 mm long, 

 12-ribbed, the thin putamen closely adherent to the perianth; seed with thin testa; the 

 drupe is crowned by the remains of the perianth. 



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