Myrsinaeeae. 



is either smooth or covered with lentieels; when cut into, a red sap exudes 

 very freely, which was employed by the natives of by-gone days3 for dyeing 

 the tapa or paper cloth. The wood is quite handsome, of a pink color and mot- 

 tled throughout. It is not very hard, but was used by the natives for house 

 posts and beams ; it takes a fine polish and could be employed for cabinet work 

 as it can be easily worked. The biggest trees the writer observed on the Island 

 of Hawaii on the slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, as well as in Waihou 

 forest on the flanks of Mt. Hualalai. It favors an elevation of from 3000-4000 

 feet, but descends lower on Oahu, though higher on Hawaii. It grows in the rain 

 forests, though its best development is attained in the more open park-like for- 

 ests situated on the above mentioned mountains. 



On the Island of Lanai occurs a tree which must be referred to ^S'. Lessertiana, 

 but from which it differs in the decidedly ovate fruits, or even elongate-ovate, 

 and is here named forma ovicarpa fm. nov. Collected in Mahana Valley, Lanai, 

 fruiting Aug. 1st, 1910 ; no. 8102. 



Suttonia sandwicensis (A. DC.) Mez. 

 Kolea laulii. 

 (Plate 152.) 



SUTTONIA SANDWICENSIS (A. DC.) Mez Das Pflanzenreieh 9. IV. 236. (1902) 336.— 

 Myrsine sandwicensis A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. Ser. XVI. (1841) 85 et in DC. 

 Prodr. VIII. (1844) 96;— Gray Proe. Am. Ac. V. (1862) 331;— Seem. PI. Vit. 

 (1866) 149;— Mann Proe. Am. Ac. VII. (1867) 188;— Wawra in Plora (1874) 

 523?;— Hbd. PL Haw. Isl. (1888) 281;— Pax in Engl, et Prantl Pflzfam. IV. 1. 

 (1889) 92;— Del Cast. 111. PI. Ins. Mar. Pac. VII. (1892) 227;— Heller in Minnes. 

 Bot. Stud. Bull. IX. (1897) 874 (not Myrsine lanceolate).— Myrsine Vanioti Levi. 

 in Fedde Eepert. X. 10/]4. (1911) 157. — Myrsine sandwicensis var. mauiensis 

 Levi. 1. c. 157. — M. sandwicensis var. punctata Levi. 1. u. 157. — Suttonia mauiensis 

 (L#vl.) Levi, in Peddle Eepert. X. 27/29 444.— S. punctata (Levi.) Lgvl. 1. c. 

 144, identical with Myrsine sandwicensis DC. var. j3 denticulata Hbd. 1. c. 



A small tree or shrub of myrtillaeeous habit, with the young branches somewhat 

 tomentulose, or in Kauai specimens covered with a rufoiis tomentum, leaves on petioles of 

 up to 3 mm, obovate or lanceolate-obovate, acute at the base, emarginate at the apex, 14 

 to 24 mm long, 6 to 10 mm broad, coriaceous, with hidden veins, quite opaque, rugose 

 underneath, glabrous, the young leaves often densely punctulate with reddish dots; in- 

 florescence of 3 to 7 flowers, on not protruding gemmae, the pedicels 4 to 6 mm; flowers 

 2 to 2.5 mm long; sepals little connate, ovate, the margins papillulose-ciliate; petals 

 elliptical-lanceolate, acute, scarcely twice as long as the sepals, yellowish or reddish, with 

 reddish-brown streaks; stamens only half as long as the corolla, anthers shortly acuminate 

 at the apex; ovary ovoid, gabrous, stigma subsessile, large, eapitate-pulvinate; drupe black 

 or bluish aud glaucous, globose or ovoid, 3 to 5 mm in diameter. 



This very handsome species is usually found as a shrub, but also as a tree, 

 especially in the forest of the southern slopes of Mauna Loa at an elevation 

 of 5500 feet, where it attains a height of 25 feet. It is quite conspicuous in the 

 woods on account of its small foliage which is less than an inch long, dark 

 green above and pale underneath. It occurs on all the islands of the group 

 and is more or less uniform, with the exception of on Kauai, where it is quite 



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