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distinct, imbricate lobes. There are four petals (rarely 5j, 

 distinct, or cohering in a cap and falling off together. The 

 stamens have capillary filaments and small, versatile anthers. 

 The ovary is 2- rarely 3-loculed, with several ovules in each 

 locule; style filiform; stigma small. The fruit is a drupe-like 

 berry, usually baccate, globular or pyriform, and crowned by the 

 teeth or truncate remains of the calyx. There are one to five 

 seeds, usually one or two; the embryo is straight, with a short 

 radicle; the cotyledons are thick and usually consolidated into a 

 single mass. 



The Eugenia of first importance in the Hawaiian flora is the 

 Ohia ai or "Mountain Apple," Eugenia malaccensis L. (the 

 Jamhosa malaccensis of P. DC. and other authors). This beauti" 

 iul tree was introduced by the primitive Hawaiians, and is now 

 abundant in the humid valleys and ravines on all the islands. It 

 is distinctively a tree of the lower forest zone, where it forms 

 pure stands, some of which, in the broad valley floors, cover 

 areas of several hundred acres. It occurs throughout the Pacific, 

 and is abundant in many of the South Sea islands. It is thirty 

 to sixty feet in height, usually about thirty-five feet. The trunk 

 is straight and smooth-barked; the crown is particularly hand- 

 some because of the dark green, glossy, abundant foliage. 



The leaves are elliptico- or obovate-oblong, 6-7 ins. long by 

 23^-3 ins. broad, on fleshy petioles }/2 inch long; abruptly acu- 

 minate, rich dark green, glossy; the sinuate marginal vein is 

 distant from the edge. The flowers are showy clusters of long, 

 spreading, bright red stamens, that contrast charmingly with the 

 rich foliage. During the flowering season, in early summer, the 

 shady interior of the tree seems to be filled with a delicate scarlet 

 haze. The flowers are in axillary cymes, usually cauline, about 

 2 inches long, the lowest branches three- flowered, the middle or 

 terminal branch racemose. The pedicels are short, gradually 

 enlarging into the calyx. The latter is turbinate, produced 

 beyond the ovary, with four rounded lobes. The petals are 

 minute, obovate, and red; the showy red stamens are three- 

 quarters of an inch long. 



The fruits, which constitute the part of greatest interest, are 



