Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 871 



Dipanax kavaieusis (Mann) 



Heptapleurum (Pterotropia) kavaiense Mann. Proc. Am. Acad. 



7:168. 1867. 

 Agulma kavaiense Seem. Journ. Bot. 6: 140. 1868. 

 Pterotropia kauaiensis Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 150. 1888. 



Collected at the type locality, "mountains above Waimea, 

 Kauai." It was seen only on the brow of the plateau, at an 

 elevation of about 3500 feet. The trees are conspicuous on ac- 

 count of their large leaves. The under sides of the leaves, as 

 well as the inflorescence, are covered with a very thick, fawn- 

 colored, stellate pubescence. It is a large tree, 30 to 40 feet 

 high, with soft wood. 



October 16 (2884). 



TETRAPLASANDRA A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Expl. Exped. 

 15:727, pi. 94. 1854. 



Tetraplasandra waimeae Wawra, Flora (II) 31: 158. 1873. 



First collected on the edge of the bog at the head of the 

 Wahiawa, Kauai, where it was a small, stunted tree. On Ka- 

 holuamano, above Waimea, it is a tree 20 to 40 feet high, with 

 straight trunk and ascending branches. Like all the trees of 

 this family the wood is soft, and easily broken. The full grown 

 fruit is almost an inch in diameter. Wawra's type came from 

 the west side of the Waimea river, "Kauai, um Halemanu 

 2114." 



August to October (2734). 



TRIPLASANDRA Seem. Journ. Bot. 6: 139. 1868. 



Triplasandra waimeae (Wawra) 



Heptapleurum (?) waimeae Wawra, Flora (II) 3 1 : 159. 1873. 

 Triplasandra meiandra Hillebk. Fl. Haw. Is. 152. 1888. 



Wawra says that his type came from " Oahu, um Waiolani 

 1638." Hiliebrand says: "Wawra's specific name is wrong; 

 his specimens were collected during a joint excursion with the 

 author upon the western ridge of Nuuanu, Oahu." Acting 

 upon the idea, that because the specimens were not collected 

 at Waimea, the properly published specific name of Waimeae 

 must be abandoned, he invented the name of meiandra, and re- 

 duced Wawra's type to a variety, calling it var. a. This spe- 

 cies was not collected by me. 



