Polynesian Species of Myopomm — ^Webster 
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pedicels 0.5-1. 7 cm. long. Calyx lobes 5 
(rarely 6)^ 2.5-6 (mostly 3-5) mm. long, 
ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate. Corolla 5-lobed 
(rarely 6-lobed), 6.5-12 mm. long, glabrous or 
more rarely sparsely pubescent. Stamens 
mostly 5, rarely 6, often with one stamen re- 
duced or sometimes entirely wanting. Ovary 
2.5-4 mm. long, 4-6-celled (rarely 7-celled); 
style 2.5-6 (mostly 3-5) mm. long, glabrous. 
Drupe creamy-white or often pinkish or 
rarely purplish; endocarp broadly ovoid, 5- 
10 mm. long, not prominently ribbed. 
type: ''Sandwich: Hawai, Maunakea, 
2,000 m., juill. 1909 (Faurie, 677).” An iso- 
type is in the Bishop Museum. 
This variety is limited to the upper dry 
forest (altitude 4,000 feet to the timber line) 
on the island of Hawaii.^ It is conspicuous 
because of its large leaves, flowers, and fruit 
and seems a distinct entity in spite of its over- 
lap of characters with var. sandwicense. 
Usually var. Fauriei has longer calyx lobes, 
styles, and drupes than var. sandwicense^ but 
this does not always hold and then characters 
such as the number of cells in the drupe, the 
lack of corolla pubescence, and the general 
leaf aspect of var. Fauriei must be considered. 
Var. Fauriei appears to be the most primitive 
group of ssp. sandwicense and closely resem- 
bles ssp. Wilderi in flower size and drupe 
characters. Its retention of the pinkish drupe 
color and its flowers which often lack the 
fifth stamen are primitive characters of special 
significance. Within var. Fauriei one finds a 
great deal of polymorphism, there being large 
and small flowers, long elliptic-lanceolate and 
short ovate leaves; but I have not been able 
to segregate these types into populations. 
Specimens examined 
HAWAII: 
Form 1. Leaves glabrous; flower parts in 
5’s; cells of drupe 4-6. 
^Kraenzlin (1929: 21) erred in referring a collection 
from the New Hebrides (Herb. Boissier) to this variety. 
I have seen the material, and although it is too frag- 
mentary to determine positively, there is no reason to 
believe that it represents M. sandwicense. 
"Hawaiian Islands” (no definite island 
cited) : Collector unknown (BISH) ; Bonite 
voyage, Gaudichaud (GH); Hillehrand (K); 
Mann & Brigham ^68 (BISH). 
Hawaii, without definite locality. Chal- 
lenger Expedition (K), Wilkes Expedition (GH); 
South Hilo District, Waiakea, 22 miles up 
Saddle Road, alt. 5,100 ft., St.John, Cowan, 
& Rogers 22391 (BISH) ; North Hilo District, 
Humuula, Puu Huluhulu, alt. 6,750 ft., Bryan 
(BISH); same locality, alt. 6,760 ft., St.John 
et al. 23934, 23933 (glabrous sucker shoot 
from same plant as 23934), 23936 (pubescent 
sucker shoot from same plant) (BISH); Hu- 
muula, Saddle Road 1 mile south of Omao- 
koili, south slope of cinder cone, alt. 6,650 
ft., St. John, Cowan, & Rogers 22379, 22380 
(BISH); Pohakuloa, alt. 6,500 ft., Bryan 
(BISH); slopes of Mauna Kea above Waikii, 
Rock 8333 (BISH, GH); Puuwaawaa, Austin 
(BISH), Munro (BISH); Kona, above Hue- 
hue, Rock 3489 (BISH, GH); Hualalai, Puu 
Laalaau, alt. 6,300 ft., Kondo (BISH); Puu 
Hualalai, 4,100-6,500 ft. alt., St. John et al. 
11394 (BISH); Kona, Captain Cook, south of 
Papaloa, alt. 5,000 ft., Degener & Murashige 
20333 (DEG) ; Kealakekua, Greenwell Ranch, 
alt. 4,500 ft., St. John & Hatheway 23982 
(BISH); South Kona District, Alika Home- 
steads, Koa Mill, alt. 4,500 ft., St.John et al. 
22486 (BISH); Kilauea, Forbes ? (BISH), 
Forbes, Brigham, & Thompson (BISH, P); Ha- 
waii National Park, Kipuka Ki, alt. 4,300 ft., 
Webster & Wilbur 1702, 1703, 1704, 1703, 
1706, 1707 (BISH, T); Hawaii National Park, 
Bird Park [Kipuka Puaulu], alt. 4,000 ft., 
Degener 9733 (DEG, NY); same locality. Bog 
Survey 3234 (S), Eastwood (NY), St. John*et al. 
11260, 11266 (BISH), Setchell (S), Skottsberg 
341 (BISH, S), Webster & Wilbur 1773, 1776, 
1777 (BISH, T). 
Form 2. Leaves pubescent; flower parts in 
5’s; cells of drupe 4-6. 
North Hilo District, Humuula, Puu Hulu- 
hulu, open woods on cinder hill kipuka, alt. 
6,570 ft., St.John et al. 23944 (BISH). 
