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I include  those  lands  or  not  as  a part  of  our  plantation  ? As  the 
thing  stands  now,  they  cannot  be. 
Mr.  Hosmer.  I may  say  in  continuation  of  the  point  that  Gov- 
ernor Frear  made,  that  the  area  included  in  the  Kohala  Forest 
Reserve  as  originally  recommended  was  53  per  cent.  Government 
land.  Of  the  remaining  47  per  cent,  in  private  ownership,  33  per 
cent,  is  Bishop  Estate.  Since  this  red  line  was  drawn  across 
Kehena  and  Kahua,  the  proportions  are  somewhat  changed. 
Governor  Frear.  Does  that  take  that  (indicating  Hamakua 
Pali  Forest  Reserve)  in,  too? 
Mr.  Hosmer.  No,  that  is  already  set  aside  as  another  reserve. 
That  is  all  Government  land  except  this  little  white  strip  here. 
Governor  Frear.  Yes,  but  these  lands  get  all  the  benefit  of  the 
trade  winds  and  get  the  precipitation. 
Mr.  Hosmer.  Certainly.  That  would  make  the  Kohala  moun- 
tains as  a whole  75  per  cent.  Government  ownership. 
Mr.  Campbell.  I desire  to  thank  you  gentlemen.  We  have 
come  nearer  to  an  understanding  than  we  ever  have  before. 
The  meeting  then  adjourned. 
A NEW  HAWAIIAN  SHRUB. 
Under  the  title  “A  New  Hawaiian  Scaevola,"  Mr.  Joseph  F. 
Rock,  the  Botanical  Assistant  in  the  Division  of  Forestry,  has 
recently  described  a new  species  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Torrey 
Botanical  Club,  New  York.  The  description  is  as  fallows: 
SCAEVOLA  SWEZEYANA,  Rock. 
A shrub  9 — 12  dm.  high,  with  stiff,  glabrous,  rambling 
branches.  Leaves  glabrous,  oblanceolate,  38 — 76  mm.  -J-  12 — 18 
mm.,  on  petioles  6 — 13  mm.  long,  mucronate,  entire,  somewhat 
fleshy ; peduncle  single-flowered,  4 — 6 mm.  long,  entire,  slightly 
pubescent,  with  two  oblanceolate,  foliaceous  bracts  below  the 
calyx  6 — 18  mm.  long  by  2 mm.  broad;  calyx  4 mm.,  glabrous, 
with  short,  bluntish  teeth  of  unequal  size ; corolla  pubescent, 
5-lobed,  yellowish  green  with  reddish  brown  streaks ; tube  18 
mm. . long,  erect,  corolla-lobes  linear-lainceolate,  sharp-pointed, 
scarcely  margined,  16  mm.  + 3 mm. ; stamens  somewhat  longer 
than  the  tube ; style  incurved,  pubescent  throughout,  little 
shorter  than  the  corolla,  indusium  glabrous,  ciliate ; drupe 
glabrous,  crowned  by  the  calyx-teeth,  5 — 6 mm.,  two-celled, 
putamen  black,  crustaceous. 
The  type  is  No.  4804  (in  the  herbarium  of  the  Board  of  Agri- 
culture and  Forestry),  collected  in  the  woods  on  the  middle 
ridge  of  Niu  Valley,  Oahu,  at  an  elevation  of  1200  feet  (August 
22,  1909).  The  species  is  named  in  honor  of  Mr.  O.  H.  Swezey 
of  the  Hawaiian  Sugar  Planters’  Experiment  Station,  who  dis- 
covered the  plant  and  called  my  attention  to  it. 
Hawaiian  Board  of  Agriculture,  Honolulu,  Hawaii. 
