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part, simply above; floriferous branchlets glabrous, angular (when dry) and 

 strongly sinuous between the spirally alternate flowers; every flower is furnished 

 with a very long deciduous, setaceous bracteole; fructiferous l)ranchlets subterete- 

 torulose, 8-10 cm. long, 2 mm. through at the base. Ploz^'crs (unopened) 9-10 

 mm. long, 4 mm. through, somewhat acuminate, and subtrigonous ; calyx cam- 

 panulate, distinctly narrowed to the base, with 3 rather acute teeth, conspicuously 

 (dry) veined; corolla about twice as long as the calyx; the segments lanceolate, 

 more or less acuminate, strongly striately-veined; staminal ring considerably pro- 

 truding above the calyx: filaments spreading, subulate from a broad base; anther.'^ 

 linear sagittate, blunt; ovary oblong turbinate, sculptured above and narrowed, 

 rather suddenly, into a trigonous, sulcate thickish style; stigmas punctiform. 

 Fruit (immature?) ellipsoidal, narrowed towards both ends, but especially above, 

 and pointed, about 4 cm. long and 28 cm. through (in Gaudichaud's figure). The 

 fruiting pcriautli has the calyx depressedly pedicelliform, callous; but the corolla 

 tube, and the staminal ring protrude considerably beyond the calyx and split into 

 few parts, which are consjjicuous objects spreading at the base of the fruit. 



Habitat. — The Hawaiian Islands. It was first discovered by Gaudichaud 

 most certainly in the eastern part of Oahu. where it has been collected by Professor 

 Rock in Oct. 191 2 (no number) on the edge of precipices at the head of Palolo 

 Valley at over 600 m. elevation, and in W'ailupe \'alley (n°. 103O1) in January 

 191 5, also at about the same elevation. In the Berlin Herbarium are preserved 

 portions of spadices with flowers, apparently belonging to I'r. Martii, collected 

 by Lydgate at Cape Niu, also in Eastern Oahu. Fritchaniia Martii has recently 

 been collected west of Xuuanu Pali, at the head of Aloanalua Valley by O. H. 

 Swezey and E. Bryan, also on the windward side on steep clilTs of Waiahole X'alley, 

 by O. H. Swezey while on a collecting trip in company with H. P. Agee. The 

 Waiahole and IMoanalua specimens are said to have a simple, unbranched spadix, 

 while those occurring in the eastern range have the spadix branched into three or 

 four distinct panicles. The fruits of the Waiahole specimens were immature, 

 while those of the Aloanalua specimens were nearly mature and of a subspherical 

 shape, agreeing well in size and form with a mature fruit collected in Palolo 

 Valley. 



Observations. — I think that now this old and up to the present imperfectly 

 known species has been exactly identified b\- means of the specimens collected 

 lately by Professor Rock. Unhappily these specimens carry immature fruits only, 

 which, therefore, look smaller than those represented in Gaudichaud's work, to 

 which otherwise they agree exactly in their regular ellipsoidal shape, and to 

 which it is believed that later they would agree also in size. Prof. Rock wrote me 

 (June 2, 1918) that he went to Palolo \"alley and W'ailupe Valley into the 

 moiintains of Oahu, Init that he was not so far able to secure ripe fruits of the 

 typical Pr. Martii. He says that in those mountains there are many rats and 

 mongooses which eat the young fruits and that he has actually found rat's nests 

 on the palm of Palolo. More recently, however, Professor Rock has succeeded 



