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HILLEBRAND’S var. y tenuifolia of P. sandwicensis has also a 
cuboid capsule, but leaves are three in whorl. He says: “other- 
wise the same as 8.” This is not so, for P. sandwicensis macrocarpa 
has larger capsules and the carpels are divided to the middle. 
PELEA Knupsentt Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. 70. 1888.—In the 
Berlin Herbarium is only one sheet of this species, but labeled in 
Hillebrand’s handwriting ‘‘Pelea villosa Hbd. Waimea, Kauai, 
Knudsen no. 210.” It is identical with, and answers the description 
of, P. Knudsenii, which is Knudsen no. 210. The writer’s P. multi- 
flora is probably identical with it, but owing to the much larger 
inflorescence and numerous flowers, often more than 200 on a 
single inflorescence, it may be reduced to varietal rank as P. Knud- 
senit var. multiflora Rock. 
The species occurs on the Island of Kauai, while the variety 
grows on the southern slopes of Mount Haleakala on the Island 
of Maui. 
PLATYDESMA.—In the Gray Herbarium is a leaf mounted and 
labeled Melicope grandiflora U.S. Expl. Exped. Sandw. Isl. The 
leaf is recognizable at a glance as belonging to the genus Platydesma; 
it belongs unquestionably to P. campanulatum Mann. P. cornutum 
Hbd, occurs only on Oahu, while the former species is found, on 
Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, and Oahu. The specific name given by 
Gray is grandiflora in the manuscript and grandifolia in the publi- 
cation.* Another sheet in the Gray Herbarium contains a paper 
pocket with a fruit and fragments of fruit identical with H1LLE- 
BRAND’S P. cornutum. The fragments and fruit were communi- 
cated to Gray by Dr. Wm. T. BricHam, of Honolulu, with the 
remark “Sandwich Islands, sem. in loculis 6’ (evidently referring 
to the number of seeds in each locule). It bears the name of 
Melicope (?) grandiflora Gray in Gray’s handwriting. He evi- 
dently associated the fruit collected by BRIGHAM with the leaf shoot 
collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. A careful 
illustration of a flower and fruit of what is HILLEBRAND’s P. cor- 
nutum accompanies the specimen. 
PELEA AURICULAEFOLIA A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 343- 
pl. 36. 1854.—No specimen exists of this species in the Gray Her- 
7U.S. Expl. Exped. 14: 354. 1854. 
