Critical Species of Pelea— -Stone 
415 
HOLOTYPE: Kauai: Waimea, Knuds en 189 
(Berlin; now destroyed). 
DISTRIBUTION: Kauai. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Kauai: "Robinson’s 
summer house,” February 1910, Faurie 112 (type 
of P. acutivalvata; type at Edinburgh; isotype 
at A). Waimea, Kaholuamano, October 1895, 
Heller 2870 (bm, k. Paris, us). 
The description given above sufficiently dis- 
tinguishes Pelea macropus from the newly de- 
scribed P. Lohiauana. 
SECTION Cubicarpa stone 
9- Pelea peduncularis Leveille in Fedde Repert. 
Sp. Nov. 10:443, 1912. 
Fig. 3 
P. sandwicensis var. /3 sensu Hillebrand, FI. 
Haw. Ids. 66, 1888 (not P. sandwicensis 
[Hook. f. & Arn.] Gray). 
P. sandwicensis var. macrocarpa Hillebr. ex 
Rock in Bot. Gaz. 65:265, 1918. 
P. nodosa Leveille in Fedde Repert. Sp. Nov. 
10:443, 1912. 
P. grandipetala Leveille l.c. (in part; specimen 
typicum mixtum; in part P. honoluluensis ) . 
Syn. nov. 
P. singuliflora Leveille l.c. (in part; see P. 
Wawraeana ) . Syn. nov. 
P. Rockii St. John in Lloydia 7:271, 1944. 
Syn. nov. 
A small or sometimes shrubby tree, the in- 
novations finely scurfy and somewhat sparsely 
cinereous-puberulent; trichomes soon caducous, 
the mature branchlets and leaves glabrous, or 
the petioles sometimes puberulent then glabrate. 
Leaves petiolate, opposite; petioles 13-40 mm 
long, lenticellate in age especially at the ex- 
tremities; blades coriaceous, elliptic, rounded to 
slightly emarginate at apex and at base, mostly 
3-18 cm long and 2-11 cm broad (commonly 
5-9 X 3-6 cm ) , darker above, the margin near 
the base usually tightly revolute; midrib above 
sulcate, raised beneath, often reddish or purplish; 
major lateral nerves mostly about 7-10 per side, 
united distally by a slightly sinuate marginal 
nerve close to (about 1-5 mm from) the mar- 
gin. Inflorescence a pedunculate usually 5—2 1- 
flowered minutely cinereous glabrate cyme often 
FIG. 3. Pelea peduncularis Levi. Inflorescences; at 
left, a long inflorescence with a dehisced capsule, from 
Faurie 189 (isotype); at right, inflorescences in flower 
and in bud from Remy 621, with enlarged view of 
one staminate flower. 
longer than the adjacent petiole, the peduncle 
up to 4 cm long and with as many as 8 nodes, 
but usually about 3-4-nodose, stout ( 1-2 mm 
thick), the pedicels short and stout, 3-4 mm 
long, the bractlets lanceolate, the upper ones 
deltoid, minutely ciliolulate and sparsely pu- 
berulent, 1-3 mm long; pistillate flowers with 
sparsely scurfy-puberulent deltoid-ovate sepals 
about 2 mm long and 1.8 mm broad, lanceolate- 
ovate glabrous punctate petals about 5 mm long, 
reduced sterile stamens barely higher than the 
glabrous 4-lobed ovary, the disk glabrous, the 
style filiform reddish about 2 mm long, the 
stigmas 0.5 mm long, slightly clavate and mi- 
nutely papillate, rotate. Staminate flowers similar 
but larger, the petals about 7 mm long, the 
gynoecium much reduced, the fertile stamens 
longer, in 2 subequal quartets, the longer sta- 
mens about 8 mm long. Capsules mostly about 
