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Fig. 5. Pelea oahuensis Levi, emend. Stone. Neotype, Stone 3282. Above, capsules and pistillate flowers; 
below, staminate flowers. 
11. Pelea oahuensis Leveille in Fedde, Repert. 
Sp. Nov. 10:442, 1912, emend. B. C. 
Stone. 
Figs. 5, 6 
A small to middle-size tree, pungent of anise, 
with glabrous reddish branchlets and opposite 
leaves; innovations scurfy, the waxy white 
ephemeral scales mostly concealing an extremely 
minute sparse puberulence of white hairs usually 
less than 0.2 mm long, ephemeral also, the older 
leaves and branchlets glabrous except for a few 
rare hairs persisting in the axils or on the dorsal 
midrib near the base; leaves petiolate, the peti- 
oles mostly 6-20 mm long, reddish in age, gla- 
brous, flattened ventrally, lenticellate; blades thin 
coriaceous, mostly (3) -4-12 cm long and 2.5-7 
cm broad, glabrous and moderately veiny, darker 
above, moderately shining, mostly elliptico- 
obovate, rounded to slightly emarginate at both 
ends, the costa pale and shallowly canaliculate 
toward the base ventrally, beyond prominulous, 
beneath raised and reddish; lateral main nerves 
slightly curvate-ascendent, joined marginally by 
a lightly arched or nearly straight nerve about 
1-5 (-9) mm from the edge. Inflorescence 
cymose, mostly 3-5 -flowered (rarely with 7 
flowers), rather short (less than 2 cm long), 
on short glabrous greenish sometimes scurfy 
peduncles 3-4 mm long, bibracteolate at apex 
(the bracteoles minute, deltoid, minutely pu- 
berulent or glabrous ) ; axes about 2-3 mm long, 
similar to peduncles; pedicels about 3 mm long, 
bibracteolate near the middle or above; flowers 
functionally staminate or functionally pistillate, 
or perfect, frequently with both staminate and 
perfect flowers on the same plant; pistillate 
flowers greenish, petals yellowish-green; sepals 
deltoid-ovate, about 1.8 X 1.8 mm, the margins 
minutely ciliolulate, otherwise glabrous; petals 
4.5-5. 5 mm long and 2 mm broad, glabrous; 
stamens rudimentary, about 1 mm long (some- 
times in two slightly unequal quartets); ovary 
and disk glabrous, punctate, the disk about 2.8 
mm broad and nearly 1 mm high, the ovary 
about 2 mm broad and 1 mm high; style slender, 
glabrous, about 2 mm long including the 4-lobed 
stigma; staminate and perfect flowers similar 
but the stamens greatly elongated, the longer 
quartet as long as the petals; petals slightly 
longer than those in pistillate flowers, and the 
ovary and disk greatly reduced, the style short, 
only 1 mm long. Capsules subcuboid, 10-14 mm 
broad, about 9 mm high, unlobed or nearly so. 
