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most leaves. Bracts and bractlets opposite, minute, ovate-subulate, 

 puberulent. Pedicels rather longer than the flower buds, which are 

 only a line and a half in length. Calyx deeply four-cleft, imbricated 

 in aestivation ; the ovate lobes nearly equalling the petals when they 

 first open. The latter are triangular-ovate, valvate in aestivation, 

 with an inflexed tip. Stamens 8 : filaments subulate, thick, not 

 longer than the ovary : anthers sagittate, mucronulate, introrsely 

 adnate ; the connective, especially of the alternate stamens, glandular- 

 dotted. Hypogynous disk small, annular, eight-crenulate. Ovary 

 puberulent, subglobose, of 4 carpels, which are united at the base, and 

 also by the short style: stigmas 4, capitate. Ovules 2 in each cell, 

 hemitropous, ascending, or the upper one nearly centripetal. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Plate 37, A. — Pelea rotundifolia : summit of a flowering branch. 

 Fig. 1. A flower-bud, with its bracteolate pedicel. 2. The flower, 

 opened. 3. A stamen, seen externally. 4. The same, seen from 

 within. 5. Pistil, with its disk. 6. Yertical section of the same. — 

 All the analyses more or less magnified. 



5. Pelea Sandwicensis. (Tab. 37.) 



P. ramis novellis cum inflorescentla cymosa 3-9-flora hirsutulo-tomen- 

 tosis; foliis oppositis ovalibus oblongisve supra glaberrimis suhtus prw- 

 sertim valde reticularis petiolatis; calycis lobis ovato-rotundis petalis 

 dimidio brevioribus ; stylo fl. fert. ovario longiore; capsula profunde 

 quadriloba tomentulosa, coccis ovalibus haud carinatis, endocarpio 

 intus puberulo I 



Brunellia Sandwicensis, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 93, sine descr.; Hook. & Am. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 80. 



Hab. Mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu (where it was also ga- 

 thered by Gaudichaud, Macrae, Lay and Collie). Mountains of the 

 western part of Maui. 



The specimens in the collection being very imperfect ones and 

 without ripe fruit, our principal figure and character are taken from a 

 specimen of the fertile plant, gathered by Mr. Macrae. The species 



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