Myrsinaceae. 



This exceedingly interesting and handsome species, which is undoubtedly very 

 closely related to S. Kauaiensis, occurs only in the very dense forest of the in- 

 terior of Kauai, often bordering the extensive bogs. It is quite conspicuous on 

 account of its dark green leaves which are dark reddish pubescent underneath, 

 and also for its fruits, which are blackish blue with glaucous hue. It rarely 

 attains a height of more than 12 feet and is often shrubby ; the writer collected 

 it on the borders of the bog Kauluwehi, elevation 4300 feet, in the heart of the 

 Kauai forests, fruiting October, 1911, (no. 10229) ; and flowering, Kaholuamano 

 forests (no. 2362), March 3-10, 1909; (no. 5956) fruiting from the tabular 

 summit of Kauai Sept. 4, 1909. Abbe Faurie flowering March, 1910, (no. 424). 



Suttonia lanaiensis (Hbd.) Mez. 



SUTTONIA LANAIENSIS (Hbd.) Mez Das Pflzenreich 9. IV. 326. (1902) 336. Myrsine 

 Lanaiensis Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 281. Del Cast. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pae. VII. (1892) 

 227. 



A small tree, glabrous throughout, the bark of the rather stiff branches covered with 

 lenticels; leaves on petioles of 4-18 mm, elliptical, or obovate-oblong, shortly acute at the 

 base, moderately acuminate at the apex, pale, dull, membraneous to chartaceous, minutely 

 dotted above, very obscurely so underneath, 85 mm or more long, 40-60 mm wide, flowers 

 rameal and in the axils of leaves, flowers usually 5-8 or even more, pedicels 5-6 mm, 

 slender, glabrous; flowers 3 mm long; sepals almost free, ovate to suborbicular, with the 

 margins papillose-fimbriate; petals elliptico-lanceolate, subacute, dotted with black roundish 

 dots or lines; anthers ovate, subacute, the apex papillulose; ovary ovoid, narrowed toward 

 the apex, .glabrous, style none, stigma large, pulvinate; drupe globose, depressed 5-6 mm in 

 diam. reddish, with chartaceous putamen, 1-seeded, with the rudiments of 2 or three ovules; 

 embryo arcuately curved in horny albumen. 



This handsome species, which has hitherto been thought to be peculiar to the 

 Island of Lanai, has also been collected on the eastern part of Maui in open dry 

 gulches back of Makawao at an elevation of 2500 feet, where it reaches a height 

 of 30 feet. 



It is exceedingly common on the Island of Lanai in the open dry gulches, 

 such as Kaiholena, Mahana and Koele, where it is a small tree, and quite con- 

 spicuous on account of its pale, graceful foliage, which has always a pinkish 

 tint. It is associated with Rauwolfia sandwicensis, Xanthoxylum hawaiiense 

 var. ft., Pisonia sandwicensis, and many others. 



It is collected by the writer on Lanai, flowering July 27, 1910, (no. 8027) ; 

 and flowering and fruiting Sept., 1910, (no. 8533) in a gulch above Makawao, 

 Island of Maui. 



Var. coriacea Rock var. nov. 



A tree with stout and robust branches; leaves thick coriaceous, ovate-oblong, somewhat 

 shining above, copper colored on both sides, dull underneath, prominently veined, very 

 minutely punctate above, subacute or slightly emarginate at the apex, somewhat acute at 

 the base, slightly contracted on puberulous stout petioles of 10-12 mm; flowers 8, on stout 

 pedicels of 6 mm, glabrous, otherwise as in the species; fruit not seen. 



Of this variety only one tree was observed in the xerophylous forest on the 

 western end of Lanai, called Kaa, where a remnant of what must have been 



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