Solanaceae. 



The leaves are large with sinuate margins, subeordate at the base, densely 

 tomentose, dark green with pale venation; inflorescence also covered with a 

 dirty yellowish pubescence; otherwise as in the species. At the same locality 

 occurs, however, also the species with entire leaves or just a slight indication 

 of a wavy margin. 



The tree illustrated was photographed when the foliage was scanty. 



The wood of this, as well as of the other species, is soft and of a green color ; 

 it was used by the natives in the olden days for finishing ofl: canoes. The reddish 

 yellow berries are sometimes eaten. 



Nothocestrum subcordatum Mann. 

 Aiea. 



NOTHOCESTRUM SUBCORDATUM Mann Proc. Am. Acad. VII. (1867) 191;— Wawra 

 in Flora (1873) 62;— Hbd. PI. Haw. Isl. (1888) 309;— Del Cast. 111. PI. Ins. Mar. 

 Pac. VII. (1892) 249. 



A medium sized tree about 10 m high; leaves ovate or cordate, 7.5 to 12.5 cm long, 

 5 to 10 cm wide, on petioles of 3 to 4.5 cm, bluntly acuminate, thick coriaceous, glabrous; 

 flowers clustered, but often only a single one developed, on pedicels of 4 to 5 mm; calyx 

 4 to 8 mm, glabrous, campanulate with flowers, globose with fruit but not closed over it; 

 corolla exserted, silky yellow, its tube 8 to 10 mm, the limb half as long and 4 to 5 lobed; 

 berry globose. 



This species, which is imdoubtedly closely related to N. latifolium, if at all 

 distinct from it, occurs in the ravines of Mt. Kaala of the Waianae range, and in 

 the Valley of Wailupe, at the eastern end of Oahu. It is not known to the 

 writer. Wawra collected it at Halemanu on Kauai, (no. 2140). 



SOLANUM L. 



Calyx 5 to 10 toothed or lobed, only rarely enlarged with fruit. Corolla rotate or 

 broad campanulate, 5-lobed. Pilaments very short, inserted at the base of the corolla; 

 anthers oblong or linear, erect and connivent in a cone round the style, opening at the 

 apex by 1 to 2 pores. Berry globose or elongate. — Herbs, shrubs or trees, prostrate, erect, 

 or climbing, with entire or lobed leaves. Flowers in umbellate cymes or racemes, or often 

 a corymbose panicle, rarely single. Corolla white, yellow, purple, blue or red. 



This genus, which numbers more than 900 species, is distributed over the 

 tropical and temperate parts of the whole globe ; the largest number of species 

 occurs however in South America. The Hawaiian Islands possess 6 endemic 

 species of which only the one here described is a tree, the remaining five being 

 shrubs. Besides the six endemic species quite a number of species are culti- 

 vated for ornamental purposes, and a few are weeds along the roadside, as the 

 nightshade (Popolo) etc. To this genus also belongs the Potato, Solanum 

 tuberosum h., and the Egg plant, S. Melongena. 



Solanum Carterianum Rock sp. nov. 

 Puananahonua. 



A medium sized or small tree 5 to 7 m high, with very few stiff branches, straight 

 trunk of 15 to 20 cm in diameter, vested in a grayish smooth bark; branches covered 



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