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Some of them approach P. Sandwicensis in appearance, but are gla- 

 brous (the nascent foliage only minutely pubescent), the (fertile) 

 peduncles are one-flowered, or rarely two-flowered; the glabrous cocci 

 appear to be more or less carinate at the sutures, and their endocarp is 

 glabrous inside. Leaves simply opposite in all the specimens, oblong, 

 or occasionally oval, sometimes rather contracted towards the base, 

 more commonly obtuse or even retuse at both ends, coriaceous or 

 chartaceo-coriaceous in texture, somewhat shining, and of the same 

 green hue both sides, punctate, copiously and rather conspicuously 

 feather-veined, but minutely reticulated; the primary veins almost 

 transverse, more or less confluent into a submarginal vein : they vary 

 from 2 to 4 inches in length ; their petioles are commonly half or three- 

 quarters of an inch long. Peduncles (of the fertile flowers only seen) 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, usually equalling the petioles, some- 

 times longer, bearing one or two pairs of small subulate , bracts. Fer- 

 tilized ovary glabrous, four-lobed, girt at the base by an eight-crenulate 

 disk. Style not seen. Capsule deeply four-lobed, an inch or two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter ; the cocci transversely oblong and di- 

 varicate, or in some specimens decurved, so that the vertical section 

 would be kidney-shaped : in these the carpels appear to be more 

 united, and their long diameter is vertical. Seed-coat drupaceous, 

 shining. 



4. Pelea rotundieolia, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 37.) 



P. glabra; foliis orbicidatis sessilibus valde reticulatis; floribus cymu- 

 losis; calycis lobis ocatis petala submquantibus ; stylo ovario jwberulo 

 breviore, 



Hab. Oahu, on mountains behind Honolulu. 



Only a single specimen of this well-marked species occurs in the 

 collection ; and that bears a cluster of unexpanded, apparently her- 

 maphrodite flowers. Leaves orbicular or nearly so, about 21 inches in 

 length and breadth, sessile, coriaceous, rather shining, and of the same 

 hue both sides, very veiny and reticulated, especially underneath, gla- 

 brous, rather obscurely punctate. Flowers several, in a small and 

 short-peduncled, somewhat racemose cyme in the axils of the upper- 



