38 Memoirs Bcrnicc P. Bishop Muscudi. 



cyathiform-campanulate, solid and callous at the base, very shallowly 3-toothed, 

 with rather prominent nerves convergent to the apices of the teeth; corolla two 

 and a half times as long as the calyx, obsoletely trigonous; petals inserted a little 

 above the middle of the tube, subtriangular acute or apiculate, not deeply striate 

 outside, the base truncate with rounded (not auricled) sides; staminal ring not, or 

 only slightly protruding beyond the calyx, the filaments erect even after the 

 anthesis : anthers lanceolate, bluntish or obsoletely emarginate. Ovary turbinate, 

 deeply sculptured above; style elongate — conical, sulcate, reaching with its puncti- 

 forni stigma about to the middle of the anthers. Fruit spherical, occasionally 

 narrowed to the base, 23 mm. in diameter; the whole pericarp is 3 mm. thick; 

 mesocarp grumous ; endocarp one-half mm. thick. Fruiting perianth pedicelliform, 

 slightly campanulate-subcylindrical, 3 mm. high and 4 mm. through. 



Habitat. — The Hawaiian Islands. Near Kealia, in the lower forests of 

 South Kona in Hawaii, elev. about 600 m. (Rock No. 12796. Typical but some- 

 what fragmentary specimen). 



Observations. — It approaches Fr. Ilillebrandi in the flowers and fruit, but 

 it is easily distinguishable from it by the different appearance of the lower sur- 

 face of the blade, which in Fr. affiiiis is dotted with small, yellowish, orbicular, 

 oblong unfringed lepidia, whereas in Fr. Hillebrandi it is glaucous from a thin 

 coating of pulverulent wax, and has no lepidia ; the fruit is also a little larger 

 than in Fr. Hillebrandi. 



To Fr. ajfinis are referable several individuals cultivated in Honolulu, the 

 fruits of which, as Professor Rock learned from old people, were brought from 

 Kona. A fine specimen of what I consider as typical Fr. affinis, and of which 

 Professor Rock has procured me a good photograph, is growing in the garden of 

 Mr G. J. Ballentyne, 1559 Thurston Street (Rock No. 12003). Ii'^ this specimen 

 the leaves have a robust petiole, about 4 cm. broad at apex, tomentose on the 

 lower surface; the ligula is oblong. The spadices appear a little shorter than the 

 petioles, perhaps 70-80 cm. long, and have one panicle only, at the end of a rather 

 robust peduncular part, which, when sheathed by the spathes, is about 3 cm 

 through; the spathes are chartaceous, and more or less temporarily covered with 

 silvery wool. The fructiferous branchlets are thickish (3 mm. through) S-io cm. 

 long, angular, torulose and closely zigzag, sinuous between the rather projecting 

 flower-pulvinuli. Fruit exactly as described above. Quite similar to the preceding 

 is another plant, cultivated also in Honolulu, in the garden of Mrs. Gus. Schuman, 

 1448 Keeaumoku Street (Rock No. 1200). 



On the whole, Fr. affinis seems to be a variable plant, especially in size, 

 shape of fruit, thickness of the branchlets, and number of lepidia on the lower 

 surface of the leaf-blade, the latter occasionally being even quite absent in var. 

 gracilis. Of it we may distinguish the following not sharply defined varieties. 



Note by Joseph F. Rock. 



The typical Fritchardia affinis Becc. grows wild on the southern slopes of 

 Mauna Loa, in South Kona, and is not uncommon at a place called Kaohe and 



