896 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



GOULDIA A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 4:310. 1860. 

 Gouldia arborescens (Wawra) 



Gouldia sandwicensis,\a.r. a arbor escens Wawra, Flora (11)32:276. 



1874. 

 Gouldia macrocarpa Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 170. 1888. 



After the description of .G. macrocarpa, Hillebrand says that 

 it agrees "tolerably well with G. sandwicensis, var. a, Wawra, 

 from Hanalei. Kauai." By comparing the two descriptions, 

 very little difference is found. It is altogether probable that 

 Hillebrand's specimen of G. macrocarpa, with obovate leaves 

 from Mt. Kaala, Oahu, belong to G. ierminalis, which also has 

 very large fruit, but the Kauai specimens, collected by Knud- 

 sen, are likely the same as Wawra's var. arborescens. Speci- 

 mens with both ovate and obovate leaves were collected near 

 the Wahiawa river, Kauai, at an elevation of 2500 feet. A small 

 tree, ten to twenty feet high. The fruit is almost again as large 

 as in any of the other species, except that of G. ierminalis, 

 which, when fully developed, is about as large as that of G. 

 arborescens. 



July 15 (2566, 2568); original locality, "Kauai, Thai von 

 Hanalei." 



Gouldia coriacea (H. & A.) Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 168. 1888. 



Petesia? coriacea H. & A. Bot. Beechy, 85. 1832. 



Gouldia samlioicensis, var. coriacea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 



4: 310. 1860. 

 Kadua affinis C. & S.: A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 4:310. 1860. 



Asa Gray, as cited above, makes Chamisso and Schlechten- 

 dahl the authors of a Kadua affinis. These botanists, in Lin- 

 naea, 4: 164, after describing five species of Kadua, mention a 

 sixth plant thus: "6. Kaduae affinis." Then follows a descrip- 

 tion of a plant collected on Oahu. It is pretty evident from 

 the "Kaduae affinis," that they meant a plant related to 

 Kadua, and did not intend to give it a specific name, as it was 

 the custom in early days to mention plants of uncertain affini- 

 ties in just this way. To cite a similar case: Walter, in Fl. 

 Car. 102, under Anonymos, says " Kuhniae affinis," but in ad- 

 dition, gives to the plant the specific name of pinnaia, or, in 

 other words, Anonymos pinnaia, a plant allied to Kuhnia. 



It seems that there is no type of Gray's " Gouldia Sand- 

 wicensis.'" It is merely a mythical species, intended to repre- 

 sent any plant of the genus Gouldia, which may be found in 

 the Hawaiian Islands. He based it upon the two species of 



