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petiolatis ; floribus in axil lis fascicidatis, brevissime pedicellatis ; calycis 

 lobis ovatis niembranaceis petalis plus dimidio brevioribus ; stylo ovario 

 glabro longiore; capsula obtuse quadriloba. 



Clusia sessilis, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 80, non Forst. 



Var. fi. capsula multum majore, valvis crassis liguescentibus. (Tab. 

 34, fig. 10.) 



Var. y. foliis tenuioribus cuneato-oblanceolaiis ; capsula parvula. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu (where 

 it was also gathered by Macrae, Lay and Collie, Gaudichaud, &c.) : 

 Hawaii, in the district of Puna, and on the margins of the Bullock 

 Plains on Mouna Kea. Var. (3. Kaala Mountains, Oahu. Var. y. 

 Mouna Kea, Hawaii. 



Tree about 25 feet high, very glabrous, except the nascent leaves in 

 the naked leaf-buds. Leaves verticillate in fours, or sometimes in threes, 

 or simply opposite, especially the lower ones, coriaceous, obovate or 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, more or less acute at the base, entire, 

 pale, with the strong midrib rather dark underneath, either dull or 

 rather shining, punctate, but the dots seldom translucent, on account 

 of the thickness and opacity of the full-grown leaf, closely and 

 copiously feather-veined; the primary veins parallel and somewhat 

 transverse, reticulated with intermediate veinlets, and at their extre- 

 mity confluent into a distinct intramarginal vein : they are crowded on 

 the branches, from 2 to 3 inches long, 8 to 20 lines wide, distinctly 

 petioled; the petioles varying from two lines to an inch in length. 

 Their texture and ordinary hue in the dried specimens, as well as 

 the numerous straight and parallel veins, give the foliage slightly the 

 appearance of that of a Clusia. Flowers in axillary subsessile clusters, 

 or sessile cymules ; the very short pedicels becoming 2 to 4 lines long 

 in fruit, naked. Calyx four-parted ; the lobes ovate, membranaceous, of 

 nearly the same yellowish hue as the corolla, obtuse, imbricated in 

 aestivation, scarcely a line and a half long, deciduous. Petals 4, valvate 

 in sestivation, with an inflexed small appendage at the thickened 

 apex, in the manner of Acronychia, ovate in the bud, becoming ovate- 

 lanceolate and fully 3 lines in length, honey-yellow or wax-coloured, 



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