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Stokes 211 (BISH, NY); Kulukulu, Hiri, ridge, 
alt. 170 ft., Stokes 504 (BISH). 
13. Myoporum rapense var. Skottsbergii 
Webster, var. nov. 
Pis. I, 14; II, 26 
Lobae calicis ciliatae. 
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 5.5-8 cm. long, 
1.2-1. 7 cm. broad. Calyx lobes ovate, acu- 
minate-tipped, sparsely long-ciliate on the 
margins, about 2 mm. long. Corolla 10.5-11 
mm. long. Ovary 2.5 mm. long; style 4-4.5 
mm. long. Color of flowers and fruits un- 
known; endocarp 5.5-6 mm. long, with 2 
fertile and 2 sterile cells in the one fruit cut 
open. 
type: ''Toubouia” [ = Tubuai], Cuming 
1430, in the Kew Herbarium. 
This variety is known only from the type 
collection made by Cuming in 1828. One 
might explain its not having been collected 
there again by assuming that the locality 
given on the label is incorrect, but St, John 
(1940: 88) has studied Cuming’s voyages and 
cites his collection numbers 1423-1433 as 
being made on Tubuai. A more likely ex- 
planation is that the variety is extinct, inas- 
much as St. John and Fosberg did not find it 
in 1934 after a careful search of the few re- 
maining acres of native forest (personal com- 
munication from Dr. St.John). 
This variety is named in honor of Dr. Carl 
Skottsberg, who for many years has been a 
student of Myoporum (and numerous other 
genera) in the Pacific islands. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES 
Myoporum ? euphrasioides Hook. & Arn., Bot. 
Beechey Voy. 67, 1832. 
This plant, described from Whitsunday 
Island ( = Pinaki I., Tuamotus), is now known 
as Nesogenes euphrasioides (Hook. Arn.) A. 
DC. Because Hooker and Arnott included the 
Tuamotus in the Society Islands, a number of 
writers listed Myoporum euphrasioides from the 
latter group. 
Myoporum rimatarense F. Brown, Bishop Mus. 
Bui. 130: 280, fig. 43. 1935. 
This species from Rimatara, Austral Islands, 
is known from such fragmentary material (the 
flowers being unknown) that its exact dispo- 
sition is impossible. Judging from the leaf 
shape it might be a form of M. sandwicense 
ssp. Wilderi, but this is only a guess. St. John 
tells me that the vegetation on Rimatara is 
badly despoiled and that the Myoporum there 
may well be extinct. 
Myoporum tenuifolium Forst f.. Prodr. 44. 1786. 
Nadeaud (1897: 113) credits this species to 
Tahiti (as a cultivated plant) and to Raivavae. 
The Raivavae plant is probably M. Stokesii. 
The cultivated Tahitian plant may also be M. 
Stokesii, but I have seen no specimens. M. 
tenuifolium is one of the most widespread 
species of the genus, occurring from New 
Caledonia into Micronesia, but it has not been 
collected in Polynesia proper. 
REFERENCES 
Bennett, George. 1832. An account of the 
sandal wood tree {Santalum), with observa- 
tions on some of the botanical productions 
of the Sandwich Islands. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
5: 255-261. 
Bentham, George. 1870. Flora Australiensis. 
Vol. 5. viii-(-599 pp. L. Reeve & Co., 
London. 
Brigham, William T. 1908. Fhe ancient Ha- 
waiian house. Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 
Mem. 2(3): iv-f 185-378, pis. 18-40, 178 
figs. 
Brown, Forest B. H. 1935. Flora of South- 
eastern Polynesia— in. Dicotyledons. Bernice 
P. Bishop Mus., Bui. 130: ii+386 pp., 
9 pis., 70 figs. 
Cheeseman, T. F. 1903. The flora of Raro- 
tonga, the chief island of the Cook Group. 
Linn. Soc. Lond., Trans. Bot. II, 6(6): 261- 
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