Beccari and Rock — Pritchardia. 15 



mountains, and especially to the left branch of Makaleha Valley, where it is 

 found at about iSoo feet elevation at the foot of the cliffs forming Alt. Kaala. 

 Several individuals form a beautiful grove on a small ridge leading to the 

 cliffs of Kaala. The palms are about 25 feet in height and are remarkable for 

 their exceedingly long inflorescence or spadix which measures over seven feet 

 in length. The fruits are small in size as compared to those of the other two 

 species found on Oahu. Pritchardia Martii (Gaud.) H. Wendl. is restricted to 

 the Koolau range, where it occurs near the summit of that range and on the 

 ridges of valleys leading to the crest of it. It extends from Wailupe Valley 

 to Niu, Palolo, ]\Ioanalua and Waiahole valleys, where it grows on the steep 

 cliffs. So far it has not been found beyond Waiahole, but in all probability it 

 extends to Kahana. At Kuliouou, the easternmost valley of the Koolau range, 

 on the windward side, and on windswept absolutely barren ridges there occur 

 clumps of palms which may be Pritchardia Martii, but owing .to the inaccessi- 

 bihty of the vertical, barren cliffs, no specimens were collected. Pritchardia 

 Rockiana Becc. is confined to the windward side of the Koolau range and 

 especially to the mountains back of Punaluu and Hauula in the dense rain 

 forest m the western half of the range. It differs from Pr. Martii in the large 

 obpvriform fruits and densely tomentose panicles. It is short in stature like 

 Pritchardia Martii but the trunk is stouter, light gray and smooth. From 

 Nuuanu Valley, which divides the Koolau range into a western and an eastern 

 part, Dr. W. Hillebrand records a species which he referred erroneously to 

 Pritchardia Martii. This species was published by Linden in 1876 as Pritchardia 

 macrocarpa (see PI. XII, A). It exists now only as a cultivated species in the 

 older gardens of Honolulu and only five or six individuals are extant. Regarding 

 this species Hillebrand remarks: "In Nuuanu where until a recent time two 

 clumps could be seen from the upper part of the valley, one was completely 

 exterminated when the natives found that the trees were salable to amateurs 

 of o-ardening in Honolulu; the other owes its preservation to the absolute inacces- 

 sibility of the cliff" on which it stands." No specimens, however, can be seen 

 now in that valley and Pritchardia macrocarpa exists as far as is known now 

 as a cultivated species only. The specimen reproduced here grows in the garden 

 of Mrs. Mary E. Foster on Nuuanu Avenue, the former premises of Dr. W. 

 Hillebrand. who planted two specimens of this species which bear profusely. 



MOIvOKAI. 



The island of Molokai is oblong in outline and is composed of two distinct 

 parts which once were undoubtedly separate islands. The west end nearest to 

 Oahu and separated from that island by a channel twenty miles wide is quite 

 bare and without tree growth, save a few scattered individuals the remnants 

 of a semi-xerophytic forest. There are of course no Pritchardias in that region. 

 The eastern part' of the island with its vertical cliffs on the windward side and 

 its deep ravines as Waihanau, Waikolu, Waialeia, Pelekunu, Wailau, and 



