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a short style, the latter less than 0.5 mm. long, the stigmas 5, usually distinct, 

 white, radiating, sessile, oblique; fruit erect or vaguely falcate (dehiscent ma- 

 terial not seen), linear-fusiform, up to 3 mm. long (here), acute at apex, the 

 seeds short-transparent-winged, the wing (here) about 3 mm. long at one 

 end (Fig. 1, a-g). 



Type Locality : Mt. Guayrapurina, Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru. 



Distribution : Known from the States of San Martin and Loreto, Peru, 

 and the State of Amazonas, Brazil. 



Peru: San Martin: Tarapoto, Spruce 4003 (F, photo., G,K, type collec- 

 tions of Planchonella disticha) ; Loreto: Williams 5988 (F) ; Serro de Isco, 

 Ule 6716 (F, photo, and frag.). Brazil: Amazonas: Sao Paulo de Olivenca, 

 Krukoff 8908 (F, NY, type collection of Krnkoviella scandens). 



Union University 



Albany College of Pharmacy 



Albany, New York 



A Botanist Leaves Hawaii* 



Otto Degener 



The speaker, Collaborator in Hawaiian Botany at the N'ew York 

 Botanical Garden and resident of Hawaii since 1922, was feeding his tame 

 pigeons on the lawn of his country home on Oahu one memorable December 

 7th morn when a score of planes roared overhead. As the .peaceful pigeons 

 were interested in the grain he held, and he was interested in the cooing 

 and pirouetting pigeons, both parties ignored the noisy mechanical fliers. 

 It was only hours later, after he tuned in on his radio and heard the frantic 

 appeals for Dr. So-and-so, Dr. This and Dr. That — down the entire medical 

 registry from A to Z — to report at the nearest hospital for disaster work 

 that he realized something out of the ordinary had transpired. His 13-year 

 old Hawaiian protege, who had bicycled to the village three miles away, on 

 his return excitedly related how the occupant of a plane had shot at him 

 and that a jump into a sugar cane tangle had saved him from harm, and 

 how the shingle roof of his uncle's and tutus house in the village had been 

 riddled with bullet holes. 



The radio blared for doctors ; then with a minister's saintly voice, filled 

 with anguish, it began to admonish and sooth the populace with Christ's 



* Mr. Degener talked to the Torrey Botanical Club on April 18, 1945, on "Plant 

 Life and Customs of the Hawaiian Islands." (Torreya 45: 63. 1945.) When asked for 

 an abstract of his talk he gave us this interesting account of how he happens to be in 

 the Continental United States, which serves as an introduction to his abstract. 



