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although they contain a few ovules. The calyx is nearly as in the 

 foregoing: its margin is obscurely five-toothed. The petals some- 

 times expand and fall separately, but more commonly are thrown off 

 together in anthesis, although slightly if at all coalescent. 



* * * Sandwicenses ; an petalis expansis ? 



18. Eugenia (Syzygium) Sandwicensis, Sp. Nov. 



E. ramulis ultimis tetragonis, anguMs argute marginatis * foliis obovatis 

 oblongisve basi cuneatis apice rotundatis vel obiusis pellucido-punctatis 

 subtus pallidioribus venis tenuibus crebre penninerviis reticidatis j 

 peduncidis axillaribus folio brevioribus; cyma trichotoma pluriflora ; 

 pedicellis brevissimis ; ccdyce turbinate, limbo brevissimo quadrilobo 

 staminibus pauciusculis vix breviore; bacca globosa. 



Var. /?. foliis minoribus nunc obovato-ellipticis aut ovalibus. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu : both forms. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, Macrae, &c.) 

 Island of Kauai : foliage only. 



The typical form (of which alone the fruit was collected) is said to 

 be a tree, of 20 feet in height ; while what I take for merely a small- 

 leaved variety of the same is mentioned, if I rightly identify it, as a 

 low shrub. Branches, as well as the whole plant, glabrous; the 

 leafy branchlets four-sided, with sharply margined angles. Leaves 

 coriaceous, not very thick, obovate or oblong, cuneate at the base, 3 to 

 4£ inches long, or in the variety inclining to obovate-elliptical or oval, 

 and only li to 2 inches long, all very obtuse or rounded at the summit, 

 green above, somewhat pale underneath, pellucid-punctate, copiously 

 feather-veined with fine veins, connected by reticulated veinlets on the 

 under surface, and within the margins confluent into the usual false 

 vein. Petiole 3 or 4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, rather 

 slender, angled, shorter than the leaf, bearing a small, once or twice 

 trichotomous cyme, of several or numerous flowers, on very short 

 pedicels. Flower-buds a line and a half long, subclavate or turbinate; 

 the limb of the calyx very short, but four-lobed, the sinuses extending, 



