124 MANN, 



crowded in a dense terminal and nearly sessile umbel, large for the 

 genus, C"-8" long. Pedicels i' long, and, as the calyx, very woolly, 

 the sepals distinct, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, imbricated, one-half short- 

 er than the petals. Corolla light yellow, petals thickish, their broadly 

 ovate summits forming a spreading limb ; imbricated or sometimes con- 

 volute in aestivation. Stamens nearly as long as the tube of the corolla ; 

 anthers oblong. Pistil 6" long. Ovary sessile, tomentose, about 

 the length of the style, incompletely 2-celled. The stigma terminal, 

 truncate. Capsule globular-ovoid, somewhat flattened, tomentose, be- 

 coming glabratc, two- valved, many-seeded ; the valves thick and woody, 

 wrinkled and rough, about an inch long. Seeds closely packed and 

 angled, minutely tuberculate-rugose. A Var. has the leaves with a 

 more rusty wool beneath ; the lobes of the calyx narrower. 



East aud West Maul, 4,000 - 6,000. Summit of Lanal. 



2. P. CAULIFLORUM H. Mann. (Enum. No. 18.) Tree 20 -30 high, 

 a foot iu diameter, loosely branched. Leaves thick-coriaceous, obo- 

 vate or elongated-obovatc, very obtuse, tapering to a narrow base and 

 borne ou margined petioles 1' or more long, above very glabrous and 

 shining; beneath, as well as the young petioles, somewhat woolly, 

 clustered at the ends of the long, otherwise naked branches. Flowers 

 in fascicles, borne on the naked stem often far below the leaves, on 

 short few-flowered peduncles. Calyx broadly ovate, li" long, slightly 

 woolly. Petals loosely cohering in a tube about 4" long, the limb 

 spreading, 2" -3" long. Stamens about half the length of the corolla 

 tube ; anthers sagittate. Ovary tomentose, 4" long, three times as 

 long as the style which bears a 2-lobed stigma. Capsule an inch in di- 

 ameter, clothed at first with a fine deciduous tomeutum, flattened. En- 

 docarp orange-yellow. Seeds numerous, slightly roughened. 



Kuala Mountains, Oaliu. 



3. P. TEKMIXALIOIDKS Planchon. (Enum. No. 19.) Shrub G-8 

 high. Leaves thick-coriaceous, someAvhat crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, obloug-ovate, obtuse, tapering at the base into a very short 

 petiole, glabrous and shining above, clothed beneath with a woolly pu- 

 bescence, 2' long, G"-10" wide; their margins strongly revolutc. Pe- 

 duncles very short, usually ou the branches below the leaves, few-flow- 

 ered, woolly. Calyx pubescent, sepals wholly distinct, thick, oval, about 

 1" long. Petals 5" or G" long. Stamens less than half as long as the 

 corolla tube ; anthers sagittate. Ovary tomentose, about the length of 

 the style, which is terminated by a simple stigma. Capsule minutely 

 tomentose or nearly smooth, much compressed, two- valved; the valves 

 nearly woody, 9" iu diameter. Seeds numerous, rugose-roughened. 



Hawaii, iu the neighborhood of Kilauca, and on Mauna Loa and Uualalai at 7,000 

 elevation. 



