Theaceae. 

 EURYA Thunb. 



Trees or shrubs with coriaceous leaves. Flowers single or exceptionally in 

 very short racemes, which are axillary. 



Subgenus TERNSTROEMIOPSIS Urb. 



Flowers dioecious, corolla fleshy. Male flowers, with 10 to 15 stamens in one row, 

 the anthers twice as long as the filaments, linear lanceolate, split down to the base. Ovary 

 3-celled, in each cell 15 ovules, of which the most are pendulous while the upper are 

 nearly horizontal. Styles 3, with ovate lanceolate stigmas. Fruit a berry with 12 seeds 

 in each cell. Cotyledons shorter than the radicle of the embryo. Leaves spiral. To 

 this subgenus belongs the Hawaiian species (Eitri/a sandwicetwis Gray) only. 



The genus to which the Hawaiian species belongs consists of about 36 species 

 and several subspecies which are distributed over Mexico, South America and 

 the East and West Indies. 



Eurya sandwicensis A. Gray. 

 Anini or Wanini. 



EURYA SANDWICENSIS A. Gray. Bot. U. S. E. E. (1854) 209; H. Mann. Proc. 

 Am. Acad. VII (1867) 156, et Fl. Haw. Isl. (1867) 134; Wawra in Flora (1873) 

 168; Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 41; Del Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. VI. (1890) 

 117; Szyszyl. in Engl. et Prantl Pflzfam. III. 6. (1895) 189, et Engl. in Nachtr. 

 (1897) 247; Heller PI. Haw. Isl. (1897) 856. Ternstroemiopsis sandwicensis 

 Urban in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. XIV. (1896) 49. 



A small tree 5 to 6 m in height, or at higher altitudes a shrub 2 to 3 m, the ultimate 

 branchlets pubescent; leaves obovate oblong, obovate or oval, obtuse, or bluntly acuminate 

 at the apex, cordate at the base, closely serrate, thick coriaceous, or subchartaceous. 

 somewhat shining above, 5 to 7.5 cm long, 25 to 30 mm wide, on short petioles of 2 to 3 

 mm; flowers solitary in the axils, subsessile or on pedicels of 6 mm; sepals dark purplish, 

 coriaceous, suborbicular, persistent; petals deciduous in the fertile flowers, somewhat 

 fleshy, ovate or obovate, about 8 mm, yellowish; stamens free, very short; anthers mucro- 

 nate; styles 2 to 3. distinct; berry dryish, globose, black, about 10 mm in diameter, 

 tubereulate, crowned by the styles; seeds 12 in each cell, globular-reniform, with a thin 

 testa; albumen scanty; cotyledons thick and broad; radicle somewhat longer. 



Hillebrand in his Flora of the Hawaiian Islands describes a variety ft, with 

 larger leaves, rounded or acute at the base, from Kealia, Kauai. 



Wawra in Flora (1873), page 168, describes this particular form as Eurya 

 sandwicensis Gray, fm. grandi folia Wawra, arbuscula foliis tenerioribus, spar sis, 

 4 poll, longis, l 1 /^ poll, latis, basi rotundatis vel acutis, minutissime serrulatis; 

 pedunculis 4 lin. longis. Kauai um Kealia, etc. 2025. 



The variety is not known to the writer. The species occurs on all the islands 

 of the group, especially in the middle forest zone up to 5000 feet and even 

 higher. It is a small, rather glabrous tree, but more often a shrub. It is 

 known to the old natives as Wanini, or Anini. On the summit of Waialeale, 

 Kauai, the writer met with this species as a stiff shrub, with very large fruits, 

 as compared with those of the middle forest zone, where the berries do not 

 become larger than 6 mm. 



The Wanini is peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands, outside of which it has not 

 been found. 



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