Eutaceae. 



1 to 2.5 cm; inflorescence axillary, covered with a silky appressed yellowish green pubes- 

 cence throughout, paniculate, branching from every node, bracteate throughout, bracts 1 

 mm, triangular, acute; peduncle 3 to 12 mm, the ultimate bibracteolate pedicels 5 mm; 

 sepals ovate, acute, not quite 3 mm, petals acuminate, 4 mm, both sepals and petals per- 

 sistent with the capsule, (description drawn from persistent sepals and petals) flowers 

 unknown; capsule silky tomentose, parted more than half into 4 ovoid cocci which when 

 fresh are nearly as beaked as in Platydesma, rostrata. 



This rather interesting species, which is named here after Prof. Howard M. 

 Ballon, to whom the writer is indebted for corrections of the proof sheets of 

 this book, grows in the dense rain forest on the slopes of Mt. Haleakala, Mani, 

 along the trail leading from Ukulele to Waikamoi Gulch, at an elevation of 5000 

 feet. It was collected by the writer in the above locality, fruiting, October 25, 

 1910, in company with Mr. L. von Tempsky. The type is numbered 8609 in the 

 College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



It is apparently related to the rather dubious Pelea Mannii Hbd., but differs 

 from the latter in the pedunculate inflorescence and the silky-haired rostrate 

 capsules; while the ovary in Pelea Mannii is glabrous. 



Pelea anisata Mann. 

 Mokihana or Mokehana. 



PELEA ANISATA Mann in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X. (1866) 314, et Proc. Am. 



Acad. (1867) 159, et Fl. Haw. Isl. Proc. Ess. Inst. V. (1867) 166; Wawra in 



- Flora (1873) 109; Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 64; Heller PI. Haw. Isl. (1897) 



837; Brigham, Ka Hana Kapa, (1911) 163, fig. 97. Evodia anisata Drake Del 



Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. VI. (1890) 130. 



A slender tree; leaves opposite oblong, 5 to 12 cm long, 3.75 to 5.5 cm wide on 

 petioles of 2.5 cm, obtuse or rounded at both ends, or emarginate with an attenuate base, 

 chartaceous, the marginal nerve distant from the edge, with smaller secondary meshes 

 intervening; flowers small, 1 to 5 on a short peduncle of 4 mm, which is bracteate at the 

 apex, pedicels 2 mm, bracteolate at the middle; sepals obtuse, 2 mm, thin and transparent; 

 petals 4 to 7 mm long, oblong, acuminate, stamens 8, four longer than the petals, the 

 remaining 4 slightly shorter, or as long as the petals; ovary glabrous, style 1.5 mm, with 

 4 minute stigmatic branches; capsule coriaceous, small 12 mm in diameter, cuboid, sub- 

 entire, the outer faces notched only by a "shallow sulcus, the axis remaining entire after 

 dehiscence; all parts of this tree emit a very strong anise odor. 



This very strongly scented tree, called Mokihana by the natives of Kauai, is 

 peculiar to the latter island. It is a slender tree reaching a height of over 20 

 feet, and a trunk of 10 inches or more in diameter, and is vested in a smooth 

 thin bark ; all parts of the tree have a strong anise odor, which is retained even 

 for years in the dry wood as well as in the capsules. The latter are in great 

 favor with the natives and are threaded and worn by women and men alike as 

 leis or wreaths. It was one of their favorite perfumes and twigs as well as cap- 

 sules were placed between their tapa cloth. 



The tree is evenly distributed over the Island of Kauai, and is quite common 

 in the forest of Kaholuamano and Halemanu, above Waimea, as well as at Ha- 

 nalei on the windward side; it, however, does not ascend higher than 4000 feet 

 and not lower than 3000 feet. This is not the only tree of this genus which 

 possesses an odor of anise. On the Island of Hawaii in the high swamp forest of 



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