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4. GOUANIA? ORBICULARIS, Whip. 



Q. ramis erectis ecirrhosis; ramulis petiolisque sericeo-pubescentibus • 

 foliis orbicularis integerrimis coriaceis glabratis penninerviis ; cymidis 

 axillaribus confertis petiolum haud superantibus ; fructibus bi-tri- 

 alatis. 



Gouania integrifoll.a, Meyen, Reise, 2, p. 156, tion Lam. 



G. (sphaluiate Gossania) orbicularis, Walp. Bel. Meyen. p. 323. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : in dry and rocky situations, near Waianai, 

 Oahu. 



An upright, shrubby plant, destitute of tendrils; the older parts 

 glabrate ; the young branchlets, jietioles, &c. ? silky-pubescent. Stipules 

 subulate, caducous. Leaves crowded towards the summit of the 

 branches, alternate, orbicular or nearly so, sometimes retuse, entire, 

 pinnately-veined even from the base, very pale both sides, nearly gla- 

 brous or glabrate, except a minute pubescence on the veins, coriaceous, 

 but rather thin, about an inch in diameter; the slender petiole almost 

 of the same length. Flowers moncecio-polygamous, axillary, in 

 short-peduncled and crowded^ small cymes, not exceeding the petiole. 

 Bracts subulate, opposite or verticillate, silky-pubescent, as is the 

 whole inflorescence. Pedicels one or two lines long. Flower-buds 

 ovate, acuminate, minutely silky-pubescent; the edges of the thin, 

 triangular-ovate and acuminate, plane calyx-lobes scarcely reduplicate 

 in aestivation. Petals spatulate, convolute, thin and delicate, shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes, as long as the stamens. Anthers two-celled. 

 Disk as in Gouania, except that it is scarcely at all lobed or angled. 

 Styles in the fertile flowers 2 or 3, distinct nearly to the base. 

 Immature fruit narrowly two-three-winged, glabrous ; the 2 or 3 cells 

 each containing a flat seed. 



This can scarcely be a true Gouania, having such a different habit 

 and inflorescence (the flowers are not glomerate-spicate, as described 

 by Walpers, but cymulose); still it cannot be separated from the 

 genus until the ripe fruit is known. 



