630 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. (Hawaii? Gaudichaud.) a. Maui: on 

 the mountains of the western division of the island, growing on the 

 face of high mural precipices. (In flower and with young fruit.) 

 @. Kauai. (Foliage and mature fruit.) 



Plant apparently as large and conspicuous in its foliage as G. Chi- 

 lensis, and with much more elongated and lax inflorescence. Leaves 

 rounded-reniform, li or 2 feet in diameter when full grown, obscurely 

 lobed, and with a more or less toothed margin, pedately ribbed, very 

 veiny and reticulated, the reticulations usually more or less bullate or 

 rugose, glabrous above, except some minute hairs on the ribs and 

 veins, beneath hirsute, especially on the veins and ribs, as is the stout 

 petiole ; in the specimen from Kauai, var. [3., nearly glabrous through- 

 out. The petiole in both forms is roughened with some sparse and 

 inconspicuous muricate points, of which traces are also observed on 

 the principal ribs. Inflorescence (with the short scapoid peduncle) at 

 least 2 or 3 feet long; the spikes crowded, but lax and spreading, 

 subsessile, 3 to 6 inches long; the main rhachis hirsute, in var. (3. 

 glabrate or glabrous. Bracts narrowly linear, 6 to 9 lines long and 

 barely a line wide ; in var. (3. apparently ovate or oblong, and only 3 

 or 4 lines long. Flowers sessile, crowded, and somewhat glomerate 

 on the rhachis of the spikes, not bracteolate, glabrous. Tube of the 

 calyx adnate, globular; the lobes 2, anterior and posterior, persistent, 

 broadly ovate-triangular, thick, the thin edge denticulate at the broad 

 or truncate apex. Petals 2, cucullate, enclosing the stamens before 

 anthesis, broadly obovate or cuneate, refuse, obscurely glandular on 

 the back, thickish in texture, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, 

 twice or thrice their length, epigynous, tardily deciduous. Stamens 

 2, epigynous, opposite the petals: filaments very short: anthers 

 large, almost a line long, two-celled, emarginate at each end, some- 

 what clidymous, fixed by the base, introrse, the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally. Pollen four-lobed, or of 4 united grains. Stigmas 2, oppo- 

 site the stamens, and nearly twice their length, linear-subulate, 

 hispid, slightly united at the base. Ovary one-celled, with a single 

 anatropous ovule, suspended from the summit of the cell. Drupes 

 ovoid-globose, apparently red or purple, li or 2 lines long, tipped 

 with the short and incurved lobes of the calyx, the tube of which 

 forms the fleshy sarcocarp : putamen small in proportion, acheniform, 

 lenticular, and somewhat quadrangular or trigonous, smooth, crusta- 



