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Pelea cruciata n. sp. (Plate XLVIII.) 



A small tree, ten to fifteen feet high, with stoat trunk and 

 rough bark ; branches spreading, stout, with rough, grayish 

 bark, the young growing portions pubescent with tawny hairs; 

 leaves opposite, on stout angled petioles of about an inch in 

 length, thick, elliptical, rounded at both ends, or somewhat 

 contracted at the base, often slightly notched at the upper end? 

 three to five inches long, two to three inches wide, shortly 

 pubescent above with scattered hairs, covered below, espe- 

 cially on the stout midrib, with tawny hairs; secondary veins 

 parallel, at right angles to the midrib, and losing themselves 

 near the margin in the wavy, intramarginal nerve; veinlets 

 prominent; peduncles usually situated below the leaves in the 

 axils of fallen leaves, less than half an inch long, stout, 

 grooved, two or three flowered; mature capsule with thick 

 walls, deeply four j)arted, the lobes curved, the whole capsule 

 shaped much like a Swiss cross, with a diameter of an inch. 



The type is No. 2809, collected at 4000 feet on Kaholuamano, 

 above Waimea, Kauai. It was growing in the forest along the 

 banks of a stream. At first it was thought referable to P. hau 

 aiensis Mann, but Mann's description calls for a "small cap- 

 sule," while these are large. It is doubtful whether Hille- 

 brand's description of P. Jcauaiensis applies to the true plant, 

 as there is considerable difference between his and Mann's 

 descriptions. Mann's type came from "Kauai, on the mount- 

 ains above Waimea, at the elevation of 3000 feet," but there is 

 nothing to indicate whether it was from the same locality as 

 mine, namely, between the forks of the Waimea river, or on the 

 plateau of Halemanu, west of the Waimea, where Hillebrand's 

 specimens were collected by Knudsen. Hillebrand says that 

 the "leaves bear a suspicious resemblance to P. (Melicope) 

 barbigera, from the same region." 



Pelea microcarpa n. sp. (Plate xlix.) 



A small tree, about ten feet high, with moderately rough, 

 grayish bark; loosely branched above, the slender branches 

 more or less curved upwards, only the short growing ends 

 pubescent; leaves in threes, near the ends of the branches, on 

 plano-convex petioles of almost an inch in length, spatulate- 

 obovate, or merely Obovate, obtuse or retuse at the apex, glab- 

 rous above, noticeably pubescent below only on the midrib; 

 flowers all on the naked branches, in the axils of fallen leaves; 

 peduncles very short, two to three flowered; pedicels stoutish 



