Eutaeeae. 



calls for a small capsule, while these are large." But had Heller seen the original 

 deseriptiitn he would have noticed Mann's remark, "Ripe fruit unknown," which 

 accounts for his capsules being small, as they were not fully developed. The 

 writer has almndant fruiting material in which the capsules are of various sizes 

 from 12 nnn to over 30 nun in diameter. Collected lialemanu flowering and 

 fruiting February 14, 19(19, no. 2292, and Kaholuanmno, September, 1909, no. 

 5292, and fruiting October, 1911, no. 10214 in Ilerliarium, College of Hawaii. 

 Faurie no. 226 with innnature fruits ]\larch, 1910, in College of Hawaii Her- 

 barium. 



From Avithiu 5 minutes walk of the summit of Kauai, ;\It. Waialeale, the writer 

 collected a specimen of a Pelea which must be referred to this species; it is, how- 

 ever, a small stunted shnd), but answers otherwise the description of P Kauai- 

 ( i(.s/,s. The capsules are much larger and all cocci are fully develo])ed; the diam- 

 eter of the mature capsule is 3.5 cm. Collected September 21, 1909, Waialeale, 

 Kauai, 5000 feet elevation, no. 4990. 



Ililletii-and reports a variety p. (jiahrn from the same locality with glabrous 

 leaves which are on longer petioles; perhaps the writer's no. 1994 from Hale- 

 maun, without flowers or fruits. 



Pelea rotundifolia Gra\'. 



PELEA ROTUNBIFOLIA Gray. Bot. U. S. E. E. (lsr,4) 344, pi. 37, fig. A;— H. Mann 

 I'roc. Host. 8oc. Nat. Hist. X. (ISHC) 31.5, et Prot-. Am, Ac. AH 1 . (1867) 1.59, et 

 I'lor. Ess. Inst. V. {isi;7) 167;— Wawra in "Flora (1S73) 137;— Ilbd. El. Haw. Isl. 

 (isss) (iS; — Heller I'l. IIa^v. Isl. Minnes. Bot. Stud. (1S97) S4I).— Evodia rotundi. 

 folia Drake Del Cast. 1)1. El. Ins. Mar. Pac. VT. (1S90) 133. 



A siiiali tree or sliriil>, leaves sessile or subsessile, orliieiilar to ovate, roandeil and 

 emari;iii:ite oi' aeute at the apex, cordate at the Ijase, tliick coriaceous, jironiineutly nerved 

 lielow, tlie iatramarHinal nerve arched, distant from the edge, with intervening meshes 

 entirely gh'ilirons 6 to 1 12 cm long, little less wide, flowers several in a short pednncled 

 somewhat racemose cyme in the axils of the ni)per or occasionally lower leaves; bracts 

 and bractlets o|iposite, minute, ovate, snbniate; male flowers: sepals ovate, acnte, pnbern- 

 loiis, 4 mm high, petals more than twii'e the length, oblong, acute, glabrous; stamens S, 

 4 long(>r than the petals, protruding, the remaining ones shorter and of unequal size, on 

 broadened HIaments; anthers sagittate, acute; rudimentary ovary pubescent, four lobed, 

 jiubescence enci-oai-hing on the lower ])art of the style, which is 2 nun in length anil ter- 

 minates int(j a Iduntly 4 lobed stigma; female flowers shorter, about half the length of 

 the male flowers ])etals slightly longer than the sejtals, the S stamens not longer than the 

 o\ary; (jxides '2 in eacli cell; fruit ne.arlv as in ['I'lcii n)]i-<iiiif(i , but smaller, minutely 

 puliescent, the carpels united at the b;ise. 



This peculiar spe(;-ics can lie found not unconunon in the mountains back of 

 Honolulu, and is easily I'ecognized by its rather large sessile cordate leaves, and 

 ramliliim' or long' drooping lu'anches. AVawra ((uite correctly renuirlvs that the 

 otlier«ise excellent figure shows undin'clopcd flowers; the detailed drawings rep- 

 resent female flowers, so does Gray's description, as he had not seen the much 

 larger male flowers. It is peculiar to (lahu and occurs throughout the main 

 Koolau range at an elevation of 2000 to 2500 feet. 



Flowering, Punaluu I\Its., Novemljcr 21, 1908, no. 577; flowering and fruiting, 



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