Eutaceae. 



lected specimens with linear oblong leaves 15 cm long, and 3 cm wide and 

 petiolate. 



A distinct variety recorded as ft by Hillebrand the writer collected in the type 

 locality, back of Wahiawa, in the north fork of Kaukonahua gulch; the leaves 

 are narrow and on rather long petioles of 3 to 4.5 cm, flowering, fruiting May 15, 

 1909, no. 3053. 



A more robust variety was collected on Hawaii in the Kohala mountains, with 

 stout branches and petioles; flowering and fruiting June, 1910, no. 8366. 



Hillebrand 's var. y was collected along the government road above Glenwood 

 and near the Volcano of Kilauea on Hawaii, fruiting no. 8775, April, 1911 ; July, 

 1911 ; December, 1911. 



Pelea Cookeana Rock sp. nov. 



Branches densely foliate at the ends; leaves obovate-oblong, or obovate, or even 

 ovate, quaternate, rounded at the apex or emarginate, attenuate at the base, rounded or 

 subemarginate, slightly auriculate, subsessile, thick coriaceous, opaque, with a prominent 

 midrib, leaves punctate underneath, intramarginal nerve almost straight, close to the 

 edge of the leaf, 5.5 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 6.5 cm wide; inflorescence as in P. clusiaefolia, 

 in fascicles; male flowers: sepals ovate acute, petals twice the length, acute, stamens 8, 

 4 as long as the petals, the remaining shorter and of unequal size, filaments broad, anthers 

 very short, acute, deeply emarginate at the base, ovary glabrous, style 1 mm, with a 

 bluntly 4-lobed stigma, lobes minute; female flowers smaller, petals slightly longer than 

 the sepals, stamens minute, less than 1 mm, ovary flat, circular in outline, style filiform, 

 1 mm, with a 4-lobed stigma; capsule as in P. clusiaefolia but smaller. 



This certainly very variable species, which is here named in honor of Mr. 

 George P. Cooke of Molokai, occurs in the dense rain forests above Kamoku, on 

 the leeward side of Molokai, at an elevation of 4000 feet. It is a small tree, 

 though often inclined to be shrubby with rather stiff and stout branches. It 

 occurs all over Molokai in various forms, but always in the dense rain forest. It 

 is closely allied to P. clusiaefolia, and perhaps also to P. auriculae folia. The 

 leaves are, however, much larger, subsessile, of thick texture, the inflorescence 

 smaller as well as the capsules ; the tree has an entirely different aspect with its 

 stout branches, which remind somewhat of P. microcarpa from Kauai. 



The type material was collected on the Island of Molokai in the swampy forest 

 above Kamoku camp, at an elevation of 4000 feet ; flowering and fruiting no. 

 6262, March 23, 1910. Flowering April 10, 1910, no. 7075, from Wailau Pali, 

 Molokai, elevation 4000 feet. 



Pelea Fauriei Levl. 



PELEA FAUEIEI Levl. in Fedde Eepert. X. 10-14 (1911) 153. 



A clusiaefolia Gray affini distinguitur: cortice nigrescente, ramulis rugosis vel articu- 

 latis; foliis brevibus et minoribus 1 to 5 x 1 to 2 cm opacis, subsessilibus, profuse nigro- 

 punctatis et subtus conspicue tomentosis et validissime, reticulatis; capsula et cetera fere 

 P. clusiaefoliae. 



A P. sessili adhorret colore pallido foliorum; floribus breviter fasciculatis, et duplo 

 majoribus. 



Molokai: Kamolo, 1000 m, Pukoo, 600 m, maio-jun. 1910; Faurie no. 104, 203. 



The plant in question was collected first by the writer in April, 1910, in the 



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