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feather-veined, pellucid-punctate, the copious dots black by reflected 

 light : petiole 6 to 8 lines long, slightly margined. From one axil, in 

 the specimen, proceeds a short bibracteate peduncle, only 2 lines long, 

 when it is trichotomous ; the one-flowered pedicels 3 or 4 lines long, 

 bibracteolate in the middle. Flower-bud 3 lines long, globular; the 

 calyx rather longer than the still undeveloped corolla: sepals gla- 

 brou8 9 orbicular, thickish, with very thin margins, strongly imbricated 

 in aestivation, slightly ciliate, doubtless persistent. Petals in the not 

 full-grown bud, orbicular, glabrous, strongly imbricated in aestivation ; 

 their minute apexes however are inflexed and more or less compli- 

 cated together, or coherent. Stamens 8, short : anthers adnate, 

 introrse ; the connective glandular on the back. Ovaries apparently 

 distinct or nearly so, glabrous. 



5. Melicope? elliptica, Sp. Nov. 



M. glabra; foliis ellipticis utrinque obtusis coriaceis subtus grosse reticu- 

 latis; pedunculis brevissimis axillaribus; folliculis ovoideis cum calyce 

 persistente tomentulosis. 



Hab. Kaala Mountains ; in the district of Waianae, Oahu. 



The specimens are two small branches of an apparently arborescent 

 plant, in fruit, and with mere vestiges of flowers. Leaves opposite, 

 glabrous, as is the stem, &c, elliptical, obtuse at both ends, about 2 

 inches long and little over an inch wide, coriaceous, with some- 

 what revolute entire margins, punctate, feather-veined, sparingly and 

 coarsely reticulated, especially underneath; the petioles 3 or 4 lines 

 long, slightly margined. Peduncles very short, either solitary in the 

 axils and 1-3-flowered, or somewhat fascicled. Calyx tomentulose; 

 the sepals broadly ovate, coriaceous, with thin margins, persistent at 

 the base of the fruit, to which they are appressed. The vestiges of 

 petals seen in the remains of a single flower are oblong, canescent 

 externally, longer than the calyx. Style rather shorter than the 

 globular distinct ovaries, villous below, deciduous : stigma four-lobed. 

 Follicles ovoid, cinereous-tomentose, 5 lines long, turgid, coriaceous, at 

 length two-valved or nearly so : the separable papery endocarp gla- 

 brous within. Seeds as in the genus. 



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