Myrsinaeeae. 



once an interesting forest is stiil to be found. The tree was at once conspicu- 

 ous by its thick leathery bronze colored leaves; it was just beginning to flower. 

 It is associated with Osmanthus sandwicensis, Xylosma nillehrandii, and Maha 

 sandwicensis. From a distance the tree looked almost exactly like a Sideroxylon 

 or Chrysophyllum. Collected flowering July 27, 1910, (no. 8078), type in the 

 Herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



Suttonia Fernseei Mez. 



SUTTONIA FEENSEEI Mez. in Das Pflzenreieh 9. IV. 236. (1902) 336. — Myrsine Gaudi- 

 chaudii var. grandifolia Wawra in Flora (1874) 524. 

 Branches very thick, at the very apex beset with minute ferruginous scales; leaves 

 on petioles of 7 mm or more, elongate and narrowly elliptical, acute at the base, shortly 

 contracted, 210 mm or more long, 65 mm broad, membranaceous to chartaceous, somewhat 

 shining, reticulate; flowers 5-8, 12 mm or more long, pedicels slender, glabrous, 8 mm; 

 flowers 3 mm long, glabrous; sepals connate one-third their length, the lobes triangular, 

 with the margins densely ciliate, petals acute, very obscurely marked with lines; anthers 

 of the female flowers little reduced, acute; ovary glabrous, with a, sessile capitate stigma. 



This species named by Mez in honor of Wawra, Ritter von Fernsee, was col- 

 lected by the latter on the Island of Kauai (no. 2019). It is not known to the 

 writer. It may, however, be identical with an exceedingly large Suttonia tree 

 with a trunk of 2 feet in diameter, and very large leaves, found at Opaiwela 

 near Kaholuamano, Kauai. Owing to the size of the tree it was impossible to 

 secure specimens. The writer did not meet with any other tree of this sort, and 

 was assured by Mr. Francis Gay of Kauai, who is more familiar with the Kauai 

 forests than any other man, that the one in question is the only one known 

 to him in the surrounding forests. 



On the Koolau range on the Island of Oahu, in the mountains of Punaluu, the 

 writer collected specimens of a Suttonia (no. 473) but without flower or fruit, 

 whose leaves answer well Mez's description of S. Fernseei, and it is here doubt- 

 fully referred to that species. Among the numerous duplicates of the various 

 Suttonia, the writer found a sheet numbered 2364 collected at Kaholuamano, 

 Kauai, March, 1909, but without flower or fruit; it must however be referred 

 to 8. Fernseei, as the leaves answer the description. 



Suttonia spathulata Rock sp. nov. 

 Kolea. 



A small tree 6-8 m high, glabrous throughout; branches stiff, more or less ascending; 

 leaves decidedly spathulate, bluntly acute at the apex or rounded, thick fleshy, rather 

 succulent, on short margined petioles of 5-8 mm, or often subsessile, dark green above, light 

 underneath, petioles reddish, veins quite inconspicuous, sparingly punctate with minute 

 black dots, 5-7.5 cm long, 2-3 cm wide; branchlets densely flowered their whole length, 

 (flowers unknown) ; fruits usually 4-6 in a cluster on pedicels of 10 ram, bracts broad, 

 triangular; pedicels and the persistent ovate sepals glabrous, the latter with slightly 

 fimbriate margins; fruit globose, black, 6 mm in diameter, crowned by the stigma. 



This rather striking species is a small tree of 15-20 feet or little more, and is 

 peculiar to Mt. Haleakala, Maui, where it grows on the northwest slope at an 

 elevation of 6500 feet in the gulches back of the extinct crater of Puunianiau, 



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