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trunks, and rounded, branching tops. Wawra describes it as 

 "arbuscula a basi ramosa, ramulis abbreviatis, novellis ex- 

 ceptis distortis et torulosis." His specimens were collected on 

 Waiolani, Oahu, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, which would ac- 

 count for the difference in the growth of the trunk and 

 branches, as everything is dwarfed and stunted at that eleva- 

 tion on the mountains of Oahu. The leaves are ' ' coriacea 

 la.nceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata acuta in petiolum subsemi- 

 pollicarem sensim acutata," as described. Specimens with 

 both long and short corollas were collected on Konahuanui, at 

 elevations of 200C to 2500 feet. 

 April to May (2177, 2314, 2315). 



Gouldia sambucina n. sp. (Plate LXI.) 



A tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, glabrous throughout, 

 freely branching above, the bark close, grayish; leaves large, 

 elliptical-ovate, three to five inches long, two to three inches 

 wide, dull green on both sides, coriaceous, entire, moderately 

 pointed, rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, midrib 

 and veins prominent; petioles stout, usually an inch in length; 

 stipules about three-sixteenths of an inch long, triangular or 

 ovate, slender, pointed; inflorescence usually terminal, pyra- 

 midal in shape, shorter than the leaves, the branches numer- 

 ous, trichotomous; berries small, globular, a line in diameter. 



Type number, 2879, collected at an elevation of 3500 feet, on 

 the edge of the plateau above "VVaimea, Kauai. The fruiting 

 clusters bear a marked resemblance to the common American 

 elder, Sambucus canadensis, whence the specific name. » Owing 

 to a mistake, specimens were distributed under the name of 

 " Gouldia neriifolia n. sp." To it are referred No. 2883, which 

 is almost identical, and 2859, with considerably smaller, nar- 

 rower leaves, which are inclined to be contracted at the base. 

 The fruit clusters are smaller, and the peduncles and pedicels 

 slightly pubescent. All three numbers were collected at the 

 same place, near the edge of the plateau. 



Gouldia terminalis (H. & A.) Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 169. 1888. 

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

 Gouldia sandwicensis, var. terminalis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 4: 310. 1860. 



Hillebrand certainly must have confused two species under 

 this name, for his characters, "tall rambling, almost scandent 

 shrub, the long virgate branches subherbaceous," clearly point 

 to Gouldia elongata. In the herbarium of Columbia University, 



