Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 841 



was found on the tree, but unfortunately it dropped to the 

 ground, and could not be found in the dense tangle of ferns and 

 weeds which were growing at the foot of the tree. From what 

 I recollect of it, it was entirely too deeply lobed to belong to 

 the same section as P. sapotaefolia. 



Pelea waialealae Wawra, Flora, (II) 81:108. 1873. 



One of the smallest as well as handsomest species. It is a 

 shrub, three or four feet high, and grows in clumps. The 

 stems are slender, simple below, corymbosely branching above 

 the branches ascending. The leaves can hardly be called "thin 

 coriaceous," as Hillebrand translates it. Wawra and the writer 

 appear to be the only botanists who have collected it. In the 

 bog at the head of the Wahiawa river, Kauai, it is plentiful. 

 Wawra collected his type on the "plateau des Waialeale, 2170." 



August 21 (2733). 



PLATYDESMA Mann, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 10:.317. 1866. 



Platydesma camp ami lata Mann, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 10: 317. 1866. 



Specimens were collected at the type locality, "Oahu, on the 

 mountains behind Honolulu, at middle heights. M. & B. 94'' 

 Hillebrand's citation Of the publication of this species is wrong, 

 and his description is not good. My specimens do not work 

 out well according to his description, but by using the original 

 description of Mann, the plants are found to be quite iden- 

 tical. 



May 28(2373). 



riatydesma rostrata Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 72. 1888. 



On the ridge west of the Hanapepe river, Kauai, were col- 

 lected two or three specimens which may belong to this species, 

 unless they represent an undescribed one. Hillebrand's descrip- 

 tion of " leaves opposite, subsessile, linear- oblong, 12-16' x 2-3', 

 of nearly even width from the suddenly rounded base to the 

 bluntly acuminate apex, dark green, glabrous." applies tolera- 

 bly well. The leaves are crowded on the ends of the branches, 

 and the majority of them are inclined to be pointed. There is 

 quite a difference though, in the size of the flowers. The de- 

 scription of P. rostrata calls for " petals 5"," while on my speci- 

 mens they are an inch in length. No more than two or three 

 flowers in a cluster were noticed, as opposed to "flowers 12-20 



