Rubiaeeae. 



the upper border ciliate with pale fawn-colored hair as is the base, and thus resembling 

 C. stephanocarpa; flowers 3-5-6, subsessile at the end of a short peduncle of 4 to 6 mm; 

 the bracts 2 to 3 mm; male flowers sometimes racemose; calyx minute; corolla 4 mm long, 

 6 to 8 lobed; female flowers: calyx 6 mm, the limb twice as long as the adnate portion 

 and equalling the corolla, constricted below, tubular or funnel-shaped, with 5 to 6 small 

 teeth; styles 6 mm; drupe yellowish red, globose or ovoid, 6 to 8 mm, crowned with the 

 long, beak-like limb of the calyx. 



The species occurs as a tree of 15 to 20 feet or so in height with a trunk of a 

 foot in diameter on the upper slopes of Mt. Hualalai, at Hinakapauula, eleva- 

 tion 6000 feet. It however descends as low as 4000 feet. Nearly every trunk 

 of these trees, which are very numerous at the above locality, is rotten, though the 

 outward appearance of the tree is healthy ; the trunks are without bark and full 

 of holes, and are entirely hollow being inhabited by thousands of sow-bugs, 

 (Philoscia angusticauda). It is also common at Paatihau, 3000 feet elevation on 

 Parker ranch, Hawaii, and was also collected by the writer on the slopes of 

 Mauna Loa in the upper part of the rain forest of Kau above Naalehu and 

 Waiohinu, 5000 feet elevation. Specimens from this latter locality differ some- 

 what from, those of Hualalai in that the calycine limb is only half the length 

 of that occurring on Hualalai and Paauhau. 



Coprosma Vontempskyi Rock sp. nov. 



Pilo. 



(Plate 191.) 



A small tree with rather slender branches, which are terete; leaves membraneous, 

 ovate or linear oblong, acuminate at both ends, pubescent above and underneath especi- 

 ally along the midrib, 3.5 to 5.5 cm long, 14 to 20 mm wide, on a, somewhat margined 

 pubescent petiole of about 10 mm; stipules thin, 2 mm, sheathing, acute, pubescent, with 

 slightly ciliolate margins, flowers unknown; drupes single or in racemes of 2.5 cm length on 

 pedicels of 3 mm, when single the peduncle measures 5 mm, with foliaceous bracts of 6 mm 

 length; drupe ovoid, 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, crowned by the calycine, dentate limb of 

 3 to 4 mm. 



This interesting species seems to be an intermediate between C. cymosa and 

 C. rhynchocarpa. It has the typical, though somewhat shorter, calycine limb 

 of the latter species, and the inflorescence of the former. In general habit it is 

 however quite different, as well as in many other respects. It occurs in the rain 

 forest above and below Olinda on Maui, on the slopes of Mt. Haleakala, where it 

 was collected by the writer in September, 1910. It is named after the writer's 

 friend, Mr. L. v. Tempsky, the manager of Haleakala ranch, to whom he is 

 greatly indebted for often extended hospitality and without whose aid the ex- 

 ploration of Mt. Haleakala could not have been accomplished in such a satis- 

 factory way. 



The type is 8529 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Coprosma Grayana Rock sp. nov. 

 (Plate 192.) 



Branches pale terete, glabrous, leaves opposite, elliptical-oblong, acute or bluntly 

 acuminate at both ends, midrib and veins prominent, dark green, dull, lighter underneath, 



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