346 PHANEROGAMIA. 



is apparently a tree, of considerable size, glabrous at maturity, or 

 nearly so ; but the new branchlets, inflorescence, &c, tomentose with a 

 rather hirsute pubescence. Leaves opposite, oval or oblong, 2£ to 4i 

 inches long by li to 2 \ in width, thick and coriaceous, very glabrous 

 above, more or less puberulent or glabrate beneath, and when young 

 pubescent on the salient and thick midrib, very veiny and reticulated, 

 the reticulations especially conspicuous underneath, punctate ; the stout 

 and lignescent petioles 7 to 14 lines long. Cymes axillary, short- 

 peduncled, 3-9 ^-flowered ; pedicels short, annulate by the broad scars of 

 the ovate-subulate bracts. Flowers a line and a half long. Calyx- 

 lobes round-ovate, half the length of the petals. Stamens in the male 

 flowers nearly as long as the petals, with sagittate anthers ; in the 

 fertile flowers examined, with shorter filaments and rather smaller 

 anthers. Disk crenulately eight-lobed, nearly glabrous. Style in the 

 fertile flowers slender, longer than the tomentose and deeply four-lobed 

 ovary, early deciduous ; in the sterile flowers shorter than the ovary, 

 which is similar but smaller: stigma four-lobed. Ovules, &c, as in 

 the other species. Capsule finely tomentose, even at maturity scarcelv 

 above half an inch in diameter, deeply four-lobed, star-shaped ; the 

 cocci oval, not flattened laterally nor with sharp or carinate sutures, 

 The papery endocarp is finely pubescent inside, as was noticed by 

 Adrien de Jussieu, in his Memoir on Eutacece. 



Plate 37, B. — Pelea Sandwicensis : summit of a fruiting branch, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. A hermaphrodite-sterile flower. 2. A 

 hermaphrodite-fertile flower. 3. Vertical section of a capsule. — The 

 details enlarged. 



6. Pelea yolcanica, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 38.) 



P. ramis junioribus petiolis et infiorescentia cymuloso-panicidata hirsuto- 

 tomentosis; foliis oppositis ovalibus longe petiolatis majmculis gla- 

 braiis; calycis lobis ovaiis petalis plus dimidio brevioribus ; stylo 

 gracili ovario tomentoso cequilongo; capsula (sesquipollicari) glabra 

 quadriloba, coccis recurvis carinatis. 



Hab. In forests, on Mouna Kea, near the Bullock Plains, &c., 

 Hawaii. 



