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keaumoe triangulation pointy near sea level, 
Bryan 761 (BISH); Manuka Mauka, alt. 750- 
1,750 ft., St.John et al. 11326 (BISH); Kau, 
halfway between Kaalualu and Waiohinu, 
Degener 9734 (DEG, NY) ; old aa flow, Hilea, 
Russ (BISH); Kau District, Ninoie, Wailua 
Ninoie, basalt flow near shore, alt. 15 ft., St. 
John, Hatheway, & Morton 23930 (BISH); 
Punaluu, Degener & Wkbke 2207 (DEG, NY) ; 
on aa flow, Punaluu, alt. 500 ft., Neal (BISH) ; 
Hawaii National Park, Bird Park, Degener 
9723 (DEG) ; Naaulu Forest, Kealakomo, alt. 
1,700 ft., Fagerlund & Mitchell 800 (BISH). 
St.John et al. 23930 has the hirsutulous style 
typical for the subspecies but is remarkable in 
having the stamen number highly variable 
and reduced to 2-3 in the majority of flowers. 
The locality of Degener 9723 should be re- 
garded with suspicion because Bird Park has 
been visited many times by botanists, and 
only var. Pauriei has been collected there. 
Form 2. Style very sparsely hirsutulous or 
glabrous; flower parts mostly 5-6; cells of 
endocarp 5-7. 
Seventeen miles from Kohala toward Wai- 
mea, Degener & Wiebke 2208 (DEG, NY); 
Puu Keekee, Degener, Greenwell, & Mura- 
shige 20020 (DEG); 20 miles from Waimea 
toward Kona, Degener & Wiebke 2211 (DEG, 
NY) ; Puuwaawaa, Forbes 49. H (BISH) ; Kau 
Desert 25 miles west of Kilauea, Degener & 
Wiebke 2209 (G-DEL, NY); Kau District, 
Punaluu, St. John et al. 11316 (BISH); same 
locality, St. John, Cowan, & Rogers 22426 
(BISH). 
Degener, Murashige, & Greenwell 20019 
(DEG), collected near Na Puukulua, is sterile 
and has serrate-pubescent ‘ 'juvenile” leaves, 
but since it was found near number 20020 it 
probably belongs here. 
9. Myoporum sandwicense ssp. Wilder! 
(Skottsberg) Webster, comb. nov. 
Pis. I, 9; II, 23 
Myoporum Wilderi Skottsberg, Acta Horti 
Gotob. 8: 165-166. 1933. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves spatulate- 
elliptic or obovate-elliptic, acute or apiculate, 
glabrous, entire, 5-10.5 cm. long, 1.8-3. 3 cm. 
wide. Flowers 3-4 per axil; pedicels 0.8-1 cm. 
long, flattened. Calyx 5-lobed, glandular- 
dotted, glabrous, the lobes mostly 1.5-2 mm. 
long. Corolla white, 7.5-9 mm. long, 
glandular-spotted, pubescent within, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 4 (sometimes with traces of a fifth 
according to Skottsberg). Ovary globose- 
pyriform, about 3 mm. long; style 3-4.5 mm. 
long, curved at the base, glabrbus. Drupe 
color unknown (probably purplish or red- 
dish); endocarp top-shaped, about 5-6 mm. 
long, 4-6- celled. 
TYPE: Rarotonga, Wilder 781, in the Bishop 
Museum Herbarium. 
This subspecies is cultivated by the natives 
of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands of south- 
ern Polynesia, and has been found in the wild 
state only on the nearby island of Mangaia. 
It is fairly well distinguished from the other 
two subspecies by its leaf shape and by its 
flowers with only 4 stamens. However, most 
of the characters given by Skottsberg (1933: 
155) to separate M. Wilderi from M. sand- 
wicense are not applicable when a large amount 
of material of the latter species is examined. 
Hairy corolla lobes occur in most of the Ha- 
waiian varieties, and the density of the pube- 
scence may be as great as in the Rarotongan 
plant. The constant absence of the fifth 
stamen in the Cook Island population seems 
like a good distinction, but the form of var. 
sandwicense from the Waianae Range of Oahu 
usually lacks the fifth stamen, and similarly 
reduced flowers are not uncommon in var. 
stellatum and var, Pauriei. The length of the 
style does not distinguish Skottsberg’s spe- 
cies because the style in var. Pauriei reaches 
5 mm. and more in length. There remains the 
leaf shape to fall back upon, and although 
this is rather distinctive in ssp. Wilderi — the 
rounded apex of the elliptic leaf being rather 
abruptly contracted into an apiculate tip —it 
is variable even on the type specimen and does 
not seem to be a character of specific value. 
