yo Memoirs Bernice P. Bishop Mitsctim. 



forests of Naalehu, district of Kau, at an elevation of about looo m. (Rock 

 No. 10004). 



Observations. — A species very distinct by the copious and peculiarly colored 

 wool that covers every part of the spadix (rachis, spathes, and floriferous branch- 

 lets) ; by the leaf-blade closely scaly-subtomentose underneath, with the segments 

 not deeply parted into two short acuminate, non-drooping points; by the panicle 

 having fastigiate thickish, woolly floriferous branchlets, and carried on a rather 

 long and thick, peduncular part ; and by the rather large ovoid fruit. It is not 

 closely related to any other species, although resembling P. lanigcra and P. arecina, 

 in the dense hairy covering of the floriferous branchlets. The fruit represented in 

 Webbia 1. c. fig. 17 a-b had not yet acquired its complete development. 



26. PRITCHARDIA ERIOPHORA Becc. in Webbia, IV. (1913) 209, 235 

 f. 17 c, d.; Rock, Indig. Trees Haw. Isls. (1913J 105. 



(Plates XMII, J, B; XXIII. Q) 



Description. — A palm 12 m. or more high with a slender trunk (Rock). 

 Leaves small; leaf blade (in one specimen) 45 cm. long from the ligula to the 

 apex, of a thickish, rather coriaceous structure; the lower surface tomentose 

 from confluent, appressed, much fringed lepidia, of a light yellow, nearly golden, 

 color in newly expanded leaves, grayish in the old ones ; the segments, apparently 

 are not very numerous (perhaps about 45) ; the central ones, 3.5 cm. broad at 

 their disjunction places, deeply parted into two acuminate, rigid, nearly pungent 

 points. Petioles short, about as long or even a little shorter than the blades. 

 Spadix relatively short, 40-45 cm. long; spathes tubular in their lower part, and 

 gradually expanded above into an elongate, lanceolate, acuminate, ass's ear-like, at 

 first rigid-chartaceous, but later slashed blade; every part of the spadix, spathes 

 and panicle is, like the petioles, very densely and copiously covered with a com- 

 pact mass of very soft, rufous, cottony hairiness ; the panicle is short, twice 

 branched in its lower part and simply branched above, erect at first, and with 

 branches and flowers almost hidden by the peculiar, very dense, fluft'y clothing 

 described above; when fructiferous, the panicle is recurved; the branchlets in 

 age remain partially denuded and appear 2-5 cm. long, slender, 1-1.5 mm. through, 

 zigzag sinuous. Flozi'crs spirally alternate, seated on small projecting tubercles; 

 when unopened, are 8-8.5 "i"''- loi'ig- 4 "i"i- through, oblong, not narrowed above, 

 and obtusely apiculate; calyx cyathiform-campanulate, distinctly striately veined, 

 glabrous, 3-toothed, the small teeth slightly hairy penicillate at apex ; corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, the segments oblong subrectangular or with nearly 

 parallel sides, strongly striate-costulate outside; staminal ring somewhat pro- 

 truding beyond the calyx ; filaments subulate from slightly broadened bases ; 

 anthers linear-oblong, rounded at apex; ovary turbinate, strongly sculptured 

 above, and conically narrow^ed into a trigonous, sulcate, thickish style; stigmata 

 punctiform. Fruit usually slightly asymmetrical, narrowly elliptical or thickly 

 fusiform and subacuminate, being widest in the middle and tapering, about 

 equally, in both directions, acute at the base, and apiculate by the remains of 

 the abortive carpels and style; when mature, shiny black, 2.5-3 cm. long, 12-13 mm. 



