Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 905 



apex rounded, but often bluntly pointed, gradually narrowed 

 at the base, three and a half inches long, one and a fourth 

 inches wide, coriaceous but thin, entire, the margins slightly 

 inrolled, glabrous and light green on the upper side, brown 

 scaly and shortly pubescent beneath between the veins, midrib 

 and veins yellowish, prominent, especially the midrib; average 

 length of petioles six-sixteenths of an inch; stipules broadly 

 ovate or almost orbicular, not narrowed at the base; peduncles 

 erect, an inch and a quarter in length; inflorescence composed 

 of two or three whorls, three rays springing from each node, 

 each of the lower rays two- flowered, the flowers very shortly 

 pedicelled, the upper rays one-flowered, much longer pedicelled; 

 flowers white, with very short tube, and spreading lobes; fruit 

 obovate, four lines high, slightly swollen at the base, crowned 

 by the short calyx lobes. 



The type is No. 2885, collected at an elevation of 3500 feet, 

 along the edge of the plateau above Waimea, Kauai. Trees of 

 this species were also seen on the ridges west of the Hanapepe 

 river, but specimens were not collected. Unfortunately none 

 of the specimens now at hand show the flowers. It is remark- 

 able as having the largest flowers of any known species in the 

 genus. The corolla is about five lines long, with a tube hardly 

 one- fourth the length of the spreading lobes. The stamens are 

 exserted. In the living plant, the leaves, too, are peculiar. 

 They are thin, and the prominent midrib and veins help to give 

 them an appearance which is hardly describable. They have 

 a grayish, semi-transparent aspect, which is not at all brought 

 out in dried specimens. The persistent calyx lobes which 

 crown the fruit, though small, are larger than is usual in 

 Straussia. Altogether, there is a decided leaning toward 

 PsycJtoh-id. 



Straussia pubiflora n. sp. (Plate lxiii.) 



A small tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with slender trunk, 

 branching above; bark gray, roughened; young branches slen- 

 der, nodose, the growing parts somewhat quadrangular or flat- 

 tened; leaves opposite, obovate oblong, two to three and a half 

 inches long, one and a half inches wide, thin, glabrous, entire, 

 slightly contracted at the end, light green above, darker be- 

 neath, midrib and veins prominent; petioles a half inch or more 

 in length; stipules ovate, rounded, two lines long; panicles 

 pendulous on puberulous peduncles of two inches in length; in- 

 florescence puberulous, composed of three whorls, each, except 



