76 Memoirs Bernke P. Bishop Museum. 



Habitat. — Hawaiian Islands: Oahu, on the windward side of the crest of 

 the Koolau ridge in Kahana A''alley. near Pun Kaaumakua. Elevation about 

 2^50 feet. (Collected by IMessrs. E. L. Caum. G. A. McEldowney and H. S. 

 Palmer on May 16, 1921. The type is Xo. 18001 in the herbarium of the P.oard of 

 Agriculture and Forestry. Honolulu. 



Observations. — This species, while related to Pr. Martii. differs considerably 

 from it. especially in the globose fruit, thick, urceolate calyx and simple, small 

 spadix. 



32. PRITCHARDIA MARTIOIDES Rock et Caum sp. n.' 



Description. — Trunk 4-5 m. high. 1 5-1 7.5 cm. in diameter, of even width 

 throughout, with semi-rigid, robust leaves. Petiole loo-iio cm. long, to the apex 

 of the" cuspidate ligule, 18-19 cm. wide at the base. 5 cm. wide at the apex: bright 

 green and smooth abo\-e. fugaceously tomentose at the base beneath : ligule oblong, 

 cuspidate; leaf-blade (mature) 105 cm. long, segments about 52, 5 cm. wide at 

 their disjunction places, divided to a length of 34 cm. (median segment), with 

 long tilaments between the segments, later becoming deciduous ; dark green above, 

 covered beneath with confluent hyaline lepidia. of a silvery blue color: lepidia 

 like those of Pr. Martii. Spadix simple. 55 cm. long when in fruit. 3.5 cm. wide 

 at the base; panicle simple. 12 cm. long, the two lowest floriferous branchlets 

 again dividing, fugaceously tomentose, floriferous branchlets 9-10 cm. long. 4 mm. 

 thick: flowers arranged spirally; spathes ladle-shaped. 15 cm. long, acute, carinate 

 at the back, with pale brown appressed paleae. Flowers, unopened. 1 1 cm. long, 

 oblong, blunth- acute; calyx slightly narrowed at the base, glossy, indistinctly 

 striate at the apex; teeth bluntly acute, ciliate; corolla slightly longer (7 mm. 

 long), staminal cup protruding 2 mm., the filaments spreading, of even width and 

 not spreading from a broad base: anthers reflexed at anthesis, linear, versatile: 

 style trigonous, sulcate. Fruit (immature) slightly obovoid. at maturity distinctly 

 oblong, 4.5 cm. long, 2.5-3 <^"'^- ^" diameter, distinctly ridged, black, shining: 

 exocarp thin, papery; mesocarp 6 mm. thick, finelv fibrous, the fibres branching; 

 endocarp bony, i mm. thick. Seed oblong, acute at the apex. Fruiting perianth 

 subcvlindrical. 



Habitat. — Hawaiian Islands : Oahu, on the leeward side of the crest of the 

 Koolau ridge near Puu Kaaumakua. Elevation about 2350 feet. Collected bv 

 Messrs. E. L. Caum, G. A. ]\IcEldowney and H. S. Palmer on jNIay 16, 1921. The 

 type is Xo. 18000 in the herbarium of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Obsenvtions. — This handsome species is related to Pritchardia Martii. but 

 differs from it in the very short simple spadix. fugaceously tomentose panicle, the 

 shorter staminal cup. uniformly slender filaments, shorter corolla and ciliate caly- 

 cine teeth. The fruit is decidedly oblong instead of subglobose. 



Imperfectly Kxowx Species. 



31. PRITCHARDIA AUREA Hort. Linden. Revue Hort. 1878, 186; Illustr. 

 Hort. 1881, ^2; Becc. in Webbia, II. 207. 



