262 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [Marca 
Kauai”; the following legend appears also on the label: “identical 
with MANN’s sp., only leaves not ternate, Knudsen 38.” 
Hetter’s P. cruciata is identical with P. kauaiensis Mann. 
HELLER’s no. 2870, labeled P. sapotaefolia var. 8 Hbd., has nothing 
to do with the plant of that name. It cannot be determined, how- 
ever, as the specimen is in neither flower nor fruit. e 
Of HitteBRanp’s var. (?) y procumbens' there are two sheets in 
the Berlin Herbarium, “leg. Knudsen no. 165, high mountains of 
Waimea.” This is not a variety of P. sapotaefolia, but a distinct 
species. The writer, in his book on the Indigenous trees of the 
Hawaiian Islands, expressed a similar view, but could make no 
definite statement, as he had not seen the Hillebrand nor the 
Harvard collection. H1tLeBRanp’s label on the plant collected by 
Knudsen (no. 165) bears the following legend: 
This is probably P. sapotaefolia; the leaves agree entirely with M ann’s 
no. 557, which is P. sapotaefolia fol. opposit., not P. oblongifolia as wrongly 
labeled. It is true that in the specimen there is only one flower in each axil, 
but on close examination the pedicel is found to rest on a very short peduncle; 
and in no. 559, the true type of P. sapotaef. fol. 3-natis, there can be distinctly 
seen, alongside the one developed flower, quite a numerous cluster of small 
undeveloped buds, so that the inflorescence seems to be considered sub- 
umbellately many-flowered. 
Portion of HILLEBRAND’s specimen leg. Kn. no. 165 is in College 
of Hawaii Herbarium. Of the typical P. sapotaefolia H. Mann, 
the College of Hawaii Herbarium possesses a specimen collected by 
Faurie (F. 188), C. H. Herb. no. 12710. 
Pelea Gayana, n. sp.—P. sapotaefolia Mann var. (?) ¥ pro 
cumbens Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. 63. 1888.—A small procumbent shrub 
with terete glabrous branches; leaves opposite, elliptical-oblong, 
equally acute at both ends, thin chartaceous, glabrous on both 
sides, 10-13 cm. long, 3.5-4.5 cm. wide, on furrowed petioles 
15-20 mm. long, dark green above, pale underneath, the midrib 
prominent underneath, the lateral veins united by an irregular 
arched intramarginal nerve; inflorescence in the axils of the leaves, 
very shortly pedunculate (about 1 .5 mm.); pedicels bracteolate in 
lower and upper third, bracteoles o. 5 mm., pedicels filiform, 8 mm. 
* Flora Hawaiian Islands, 63. 1888. 
