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passing into others with oval or elliptical leaves (sometimes 2 inches 

 long) from Kauai. Var. y. is a glabrous, or perhaps early glabrate 

 state of 0. ; the specimens with young fruit only. Yar. 8. has thinner 

 and glabrous leaves, either oval or oblong, often acute at the base, rather 

 conspicuously petioled; but the loose cymes, calyx, &c., are very densely 

 villous-tomentose. Var. e. embraces a variety of specimens, with 

 glabrous and distinctly petioled leaves varying from broadly oval to 

 narrowly oblong, either thick or thinnish ; the inflorescence and calyx 

 minutely canescent or pubescent, but early glabrate. This passes 

 insensibly into var. f. the smoothest and most slender form, with the 

 narrowest and thinnest leaves [narrowly oblong and lanceolate, acutw7i 9 

 with the base tapering into a petiole of about 3 lines long) ; the cymes 

 are loose, and the flowers as small as in var. a. — All have red and 

 pedicelled flowers ; the pedicels 1 J to 2 lines long. The veins of the 

 leaves are slender, more or less reticulated, sometimes with a pair or 

 two of stronger ascending ones from the base. Rarely the limb of 

 the calyx is six-lobed ; the lobes very obtuse. The upper half of the 

 three-celled ovary is free from the tube of the calyx. The globular 

 capsule, which projects somewhat beyond the calyx, becomes nearly 

 free from the tube which encircles it. — This species, in some of its 

 forms at least, becomes a large tree, the Ohea of the Hawaians. 



In the collection from Tahiti, there is a single imperfect specimen 

 of what appears to be the M. polymorpha, var. £., having pedicelled 

 flowers and lanceolate leaves, glabrous throughout. Whether truly 

 of this species must be left for future investigators to determine. 



11. Metrosideros Macropus, Hoolc. & Am. (Tab. 70.) 



M. glabra; foliis longe petiolatis ; petiolo lamina ovata sea ovato-oblonga 

 paullo vel dimidio breviore; cyma confertiflora ; floribus (rubellis?) 

 pedicellatis ; bracteis bracteolisque ovatis et ovato-lanceolatis mag ids 

 involucrantibus deciduis; capsula calycis tubo fere inclusa ad medium 

 usque libera. 



Metrosideros Macropus, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 83. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands ; on the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 (Also gathered by Macrae, Lay & Collie, Gaudichaud, and Seemann.) 



