Myrsinaceae. 



Leaves dark, chartaceous, pale veined, not punctate; drupe very 



small 3 mm, spheroidal S. volcanica 



Leaves ovate to suborbicular, glaucous, margins revolute, style 



distinct S. Knudsenii 



Leaves thick coriaceous, 100 mm long or more, reticulate, euneate 



at the" base . . .__. S. Lessertiana 



Leaves coriaceous, small, 24 mm, emarginate at the apex S. Sandwicensis 



Leaves elliptical-oblong, petiolate, 50 mm long, strongly reticulate. S. Hillebrandii 



Leaves sessile, very narrow, lanceolate, apex caudate, acuminate.. S. lanceolata 



Suttonia kauaiensis (Hbd.) Mez. 



SUTTONIA KAUAIENSIS (Hbd.) Mez Das Pflzenreich 9. IV. 236. (1902) 335; Pax in 

 Ehgl. et Prantl Pflzfam. IV. 1. (1908) 278. Myrsine kauaiensis Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. 

 (1888) 280; Del Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. VII. (1892) 227. Heller in Minnes. 

 Bot. Stud. IX. (1897) 873. 



A small tree 12 m in height; branches slender, glabrous; leaves pilose when young, 

 glabrate when old, on petioles of 4-15 mm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly and obscurely 

 acuminate at the apex or somewhat obtuse, reticulate on both sides, the adult leaves densely 

 set with blackish minute dots; inflorescence of 1-5-7 flowers, bracts linear, 2-2.5 mm, the 

 slender pedicels 5.7 mm, glabrous or pilose; flowers 3 mm long; sepals connate one-third 

 their length, often covered with long hair at the dorsal side, ovate; petals elliptical, 

 subrotundate at tBe apex, with elongate, brownish, or shortly linear dots; stamens with 

 large, ovate-elliptical, somewhat acuminate anthers, slightly papillose; ovary glabrous, ovoid, 

 style shert and thick, stigma obtuse, very obscurely 5-angular; drupe globose, 4 mm. 



This species was first collected by V. Knudsen (no. 191) of Kauai. It grows 

 in the outskirts of the forests of Halemanu and Kaholuamano on Kauai. Speci- 

 mens which evidently belong to this species were collected by the writer in the 

 type locality (Halemanu) flowering (no. 1567) Febr. 14, 1909; and in Milolii 

 gorge (no. 2355) Febr. 26, 1909. In this latter form the young leaves are 

 membraneous and puberulous ; without flower or fruit. 



The typical Suttonia kauaiensis was collected in the forests of Kaholuamano, 

 at an elevation of 3800 feet, flowering March, 1909, (no. 2359). The pedicels 

 are glabrous, as well as the flowers, with the exception of the ciliate margin of 

 sepals and petals ; the leaves are subemarginate at the base. 



Suttonia Wawraea Mez. 



SUTTONIA WAWRAEA Mez Das Pflzreich 9. IV. 236. (1902) 335. Myrsine Gaudichaudii 

 var. hirsuta Wawra in Flora (1874) 524. Myrsine Kauaiensis var. hirsuta Hbd. 

 in Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 281; Del Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pac. VII. (1892) 227. 



A small tree or shrub; young branches densely and shortly covered v/ith a turbid 

 brown-ferruginous tomentum; leaves on petioles of 4 mm, elliptical or obovate-elliptical, 

 somewhat obtuse at the apex, 8-16 cm long, 40-60 mm wide, the medium nerve covered 

 with an appressed reddish tomentum, the under side of the young leaves with a scattered 

 pubescence of the same color, prominently reticulate on both sides, the upper side glabrous, 

 punctulate, with transparent dots; flowers 6-10, 14 mm long, pedicels densely tomentose 5-7 

 mm long; flowers densely tomentose, sepals connate at the base one-fourth their length, 

 ovate, somewhat acute, with the margins very densely "illous-ciliate; petals linear, anthers 

 barbellate at the apex; stigma in the female flowers echiuate-capitulate; drupe dark 

 bluish, glaucous, globose 8 mm in diameter, crowned by the persistent stigma; seeds globose, 

 many-ribbed, 6 mm in diameter, endocarp thin, papery. 



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