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being 62 X 55 mm, the second largest 58 X 54 
mm, and the smallest of the fully-developed 
leaves 64 X 43 mm; the base cordate to a 
depth of 1-2 (-3) mm or rounded; the apex 
obtuse to acute, with the margins near the tip 
slightly rounded to straight, or, if barely acu- 
minate, departing at most 1 mm frorn^a straight 
line; the margin crenulate, with 2-3 indenta- 
tions (up to 0.5 mm deep) per cm, to suben- 
tire, the base entire for 20 mm adjacent to the 
petiole; with 5-10 (average 8.5) pairs of major 
lateral veins, usually curving somewhat towards 
the tip of the leaf. Peduncles terminal, 20-40 
mm long, the average (N = 7) 33 mm, often 
arcuate and reflexed. Head solitary, with about 
40 flowers. Involucres 25 mm long and 25 mm 
wide; the bracts in 3-4 series, greenish-yellow, 
coriaceous, scarious-margined, the outermost 
broadly deltoid (3 mm long, 9 mm wide), the 
middle ones semicircular, and the inner ones 
lanceolate (13-17 mm long, 5-7 mm wide). 
Receptacular bracts 12-17 mm long, 2-3 (-5) 
mm wide. Corollas 15-20 mm long, the tube 
about 10 mm long, the shallower sinuses nearly 
equalling the ventral cleft, and the lobes with 
terminal hairs 0. 1-0.6 mm long. Anther sacs 
5 mm long, the stamen tips cuneate-lanceolate, 
1-1.5 mm long. Ovary at anthesis 7-8 mm long; 
the styles 20-22 mm long. Ripe achenes 13-16 
mm long, with awns 8-10 mm long; awns gen- 
erally triangular in transection and somewhat 
deciduous. 
DISTRIBUTION: Society Islands, endemic to 
Bora Bora. 
SPECIMEN EXAMINED: Bora Bora, in dwarf 
rain-forest on the summit of Mt. Tarapaia, alti- 
tude 645 m, Jan. 3, 1931, M. L. Grant 4968 
(bish, type; RSA, ISTC, isotypes). 
This species was found in several places on 
Mt. Tarapaia, none less than 25 m in altitude 
below the summit, but only four inflorescences 
were discovered, two in bud, one at anthesis, 
and one in fruit. Associated woody plants were 
Alstonia, Metrosideros, Freycinetia, and Glochi- 
dion. Native name: anei. 
Mt. Tarapaia appears on U. S. Hydrographic 
maps as Mt. Pahia, elevation 2165 ft (— 660 
m), the name and elevation being taken from 
French maps. It has been recorded as "Tarao- 
pai’a.” The only higher point on Bora Bora is 
Otemanu (Mt. Temanu of the maps), eleva- 
tion 725 m, a peak which apparently has never 
been climbed by anyone other than Polynesians. 
2. Fitchia cuneata J. W. Moore, Bishop Mus. 
Bull. 102:48. 1933 ssp. tahaaensis M. L. 
Grant et S. Carlquist, subsp. nov. 
Fig. 32 
Frutex arboreus 2.5 m altus glaber, caule 
basaliter 2.5 cm crasso. Folia simplicia petiolata 
petiolis 10-37 mm longis, longitudine media 
(N=30) 20 mm. Laminae plerumque ellipti- 
cae vel parum ovatae obovataeque vel rhom- 
boidales subatrovirides 40-110 mm longae 25- 
58 mm latae, magnitudine media foliarum 
grandiorum circa acuminato, margine crenu- 
lato serratove vel subintegro, venulis lateribus 
5-10 ( numero medio 7.5 ) pro unico latere. 
Pedunculi terminales 25-50 mm longi, longi- 
tudine media (N= 10) 33 mm. Capitula soli- 
taria circa 75-florata. Involucra 20-40 mm longa, 
15-25 mm lata, bracteis 3-4 seriatis, viride- 
lutei coriaceis marginibus . chartaceis, exteriori- 
bus breviter ovatis reniformibusque 2-5 mm 
longis 6-15 mm latis, medioribus semiorbiculari- 
bus 8-12 mm longis 9-13 mm latis, interioribus 
cuneatis 12-20 mm longis, 4-8 mm latis. Brac- 
teae receptaculares lanceolatae 12-17 mm longae 
2-4 mm latae. Corollae ad anthesin 15-22 mm 
longae, tubis 4-10 mm longis, dentibus 5-7 mm 
longis. Antherae saccis, 4.5-5 mm longis, apici- 
bus staminum cuneato-lanceolatis 1.5 mm 
longis. Ovaria ad anthesin 8-10 mm longa, 3-4 
mm lata, stylis 24-30 mm longis. Achaenia 
matura 10-20 mm longa, 4-6 mm lata, aristis 
10-13 mm longis plerumque teretibus sub- 
persistentibus. 
Treelike shrub, 2.5 m tall, 2.5 cm in diameter 
at the base, glabrous. Bark 1 mm thick, brown, 
roughened with irregular scaly ridges. One-year- 
old twigs on flowering shoots greenish, 2 mm 
in diameter; two-year twigs pale brown, 3 mm 
in diameter; internodes 4-8 mm long, on vege- 
tative shoots to 12 mm long. Leaves simple. 
Petioles 10-37 mm long, the average (N = 30) 
20 mm; the stipular sheaths 0. 5-0.8 mm high. 
Blades mostly elliptical, varying to slightly 
ovate, obovate, or rhomboid, dull green, with 
a narrow stramineous margin, and with a dark 
