Heller: plants of the Hawaiian islands. 39' 



Hooker and Arnott, Petesia? coriacea and Petesia? ierminalis, 

 reducing them to varieties, and added a third variety — hirtella. 

 G. coriacea is found in the mountains back of Honolulu, at 

 elevations of 2,000 feet and more. My specimens are from 

 dwarfed trees, and agree with specimens in the Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Museum, which were collected by Mann & Brigham. 

 May 23 (2347). 



Gouldia elongata n. sp. {Plate LX.) 



Shrubby, with long and slender, drooping branches, these 

 subherbaceous near the ends and sharply four angled, glab- 

 rous throughout; bark gray, smooth; leaves elliptical -lanceo- 

 late, slightly more contracted at the apex than at the base, 

 two to three inches in length, an inch and a half in width, 

 entire, midvein prominent, impressed above, veins not promi- 

 nent; petioles stout, almost an inch in length; panicles termi- 

 nal, or occasionally axillary, pyramidal, very large and loose, 

 with three or four nodes, trichotomously decompound; pedicels 

 slender, angled, five lines long; berries small, one line in 

 diameter, bluish. 



The type is 2606 in part, and was collected July 25, on the 

 ridge between the Wahiawa and Hanapepe rivers, at an eleva- 

 tion of about 2, 500 feet. It grew in wet, boggy woods, a large 

 number of the slender, wand-like stems springing from a 

 single clump. It is evidently part of Hillebrand's Gouldia 

 ierminalis, but is very different from true specimens of that 

 species, which is probably confined to the island of Oahu, un- 

 less it can be proved that G. arborescens is merely a more 

 arborescent form of it. 



No. 2889, collected in the bog at the head of the Wahiawa 

 river, must also be referred to G. elongata. These specimens 

 are from a stouter bush, divaricately branched, and bearing 

 much shorter panicles, with larger berries. The leaves are 

 smaller and more obovate in shape, It is perhaps distinct, but 

 appears to have more characters in common with this species 

 than with any other. 



Gouldia lanceolata (Wawra). 



Gouldia sandwicensis, var. c. lanceolata Wawra, Flora (11)32:277. 

 1874. 



This is certainly a good species, perfectly distinct from 

 either G. coriacea or G. ierminalis, which are the only other 

 species found on the mountains back of Honolulu. My speci 

 mens are from small trees about ten feet high, with slender 



