RUTACE^. 34? 



2. Pelea auricul^folia, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 36.) 



P. glabra; foliis ternis oblongo-spathidatis basi auricidatis sessilibus ; 

 floribus fascicidatis ad axillas foliorum delapsorum secus caulem 

 virgatum brevissime pedicellatis ; capsula quadripartite. 



Hab. Forests of Hawaii, on the flank of Mouna Kea. 



The specimen, taken from " an upright, nearly simple shrub," bears 

 only a little fruit, and a few fertile ovaries, from which the perianth, 

 stamens, &c, have fallen. The virgate stem is very leafy above ; and 

 the flowers have been produced lower down, in small fascicles, from 

 the axils of earlier leaves, now fallen. Plant glabrous throughout. 

 Leaves verticillate in threes, coriaceous, pale, oblong-spatulate, obtuse, 

 auriculate at the base, sessile, from 3 to 5 inches long, veined and 

 dotted nearly as in the preceding species ; the midrib salient under- 

 neath. Ovary more deeply lobed than in P. clusicefolia, being united 

 only at the base: the style has mostly fallen. Capside deeply fow 

 parted; the cocci oval-oblong, otherwise similar, as apparently are the 

 seeds, to those of the foregoing species. 



Plate 36. — Pelea auricul^folia : of the natural size. Fig. 1. 

 Ovary, with the receptacle, &c, magnified. 2. Vertical section of the 

 same, more magnified, showing the ovules, &c. 



3. Pelea oblongifolia, Sp. Nov. 



P. glabra; foliis oppositis oblongis sen ocalibus petiolatis ; pedunculis 

 (fl.fert.) in axillis solitariis uni-bifloris petiolum ad&quantibus; cap- 

 mla quadriloba, coeds subcarinatis. 



Hab. Hawaii, in the district of Puna, at an elevation of 800 or 

 1,000 feet ; near the crater Lua Pele : also in the forest on the margin 

 of Bullock Plains, Mouna Kea. Kauai? (foliage only). Mountains 

 behind Honolulu, Oahu. 



To this species I refer a number of individuals from different 

 habitats, none of them with flowers, and few with mature fruit. 



