1918] ROCK—PELEA AND PLATYDESMA 267 
barium. HILLEBRAND’s single specimen in the Berlin Herbarium 
marked Platydesma auriculaefolia (Gray) Hbd. is certainly not a 
Pelea but a Platydesma. The leaves in the specimen are opposite 
and not ternate, and are somewhat auriculate. It is neither in 
flower nor in fruit. This plant of H1tLEBRAND’s is identical with 
the writer’s var. sessilifolium of Platydesma campanulatum collected 
in the Kohala Mountains on Hawaii, from whence HILLEBRAND’S 
specimen originates. Platydesma auriculaefolia Hbd. is not a syno- 
nym of Pelea auriculaefolia Gray, but a synonym of Platydesma 
campanulatum sessilifolium Rock. The plant represented on the 
excellent plate in the atlas of the United States Exploring Expedi- 
tion is a typical Pelea. 
PELEA GAYANA and P. CINEREA Var. RUBRA. 
Pelea recurvata, n. sp.—P. kauaiensis Hbd. (not H. Mann), 
Fl. Haw. Isl. 64. 1888.—A small tree 5 m. high with rambling 
branches (teste HILLEBRAND); leaves opposite, ovate or elliptico- 
oblong, 1o-12.5 cm. long, 56.5 cm. wide, on petioles 1.75~2.5 cm. 
long, moderately acuminate, chartaceous, marginal nerve remote 
from the edge, with one or two sets of meshes between, nrg 
above, clothed underneath, especially along the midrib, wit 
dense velvety or cobwebby villosity; flowers small, one or more in 
a cluster, on filiform pedicels 4-6 mm. long, which are bracteolate 
at the base; sepals ovate, 2-3 mm. long; petals thin, g—5 mm. long; 
capsule thin, deeply 4-parted to near the base, the narrow elongate 
cocci divaricate and’strongly recurved, about 12 mm. long, 4 mm. 
broad, keeled at the upper suture, one or more often abortive. 
Kavat.—Waimea at elevations of 2000~3000 ft.; Knudsen no. 64 in Herb. 
Hillebrand Berlin Bot. Museum is the type, and part of the type is in College 
of Hawaii Herbarium no. 12711. 
CoLLEcE or Hawan 
Honotutu 
