Eugenia in Hawaii — Wilson 
167 
ing, glandular-punctate, 1-1.7 mm. in diam- 
eter, glabrous; stamens numerous (about 
200), creamy- white, 1-5 cm. long; filament 
slender, terete, creamy- white, glabrous; an- 
thers white, oblong, 1-2 mm. long; style 
terete, subulate, 3-4 cm. long, glabrous, 
creamy-white to greenish-white, exserted or 
included; fruit subglobose, 2-4 cm. tall, 4-6 
cm. wide, yellow or pinkish-yellow, minutely 
glandular-punctate, umbilicate on top, 
crowned by persistent calyx lobes, style often 
persistent; pericarp fleshy, 1-1.5 cm. thick; 
seed loosely attached within, subglobose, 
2-2.5 cm. in diameter; seed coat 1 mm. thick, 
brown, coriaceous, closely adhering to the 
surface of the cotyledons; cotyledons white 
or greenish-white, equal or unequal, not 
fused. 
Common name: "Ohia loke,” Rose Apple. 
distribution: Sparingly naturalized on 
probably all of the larger islands of Hawaii. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of the world. 
Specimens examined: 
Kauai: Kokee Camp, becoming natural- 
ized, July 5, 1926, Degener 7,341 (NY); Waioli 
Valley, along stream, alt. 50 rn., Feb. 27, 1927, 
MacDaniels 908 . 
Oahu: Waikane-Schofield trail, Waikane, 
750 ft. alt., side of road, Dec. 2, 1951, Wilson 
43; Waiahole, Jan. 23, 1909, Rock 1,283 and 
1,287; Manoa, near Woodlawn, spreading 
locally, Apr. 1937, Egler 37-423. 
Maui: Iao Valley, Wailuku, roadside, elev. 
800 ft., Feb. 9, 1930, St. John 10,277 (BISH, 
NY). 
Hawaii: Naturalized, Degener 7,344 ; South 
Kona, Honomalina, Ranch House, neat Kona 
highway, 1800 ft. alt., Sept. 7, 1952, Chock 
768; near Glenwood, naturalized in pasture, 
June 23, 1929, Degener 7,343 (NY). 
Degener (1932-34) records that Eugenia 
Jambos was probably first introduced into 
Hilo from Rio de Janeiro by Mr. Bridge in 
1853. It may now be found growing along 
road and trail sides and in other moist areas. 
Although Degener also records it as "def- 
initely known from Kauai, Molokai, Oahu, 
Maui and Hawaii,” no specimens of it were 
seen from Molokai. 
3. Eugenia sandwicensis Gray, U. S. Ex- 
plor. Exped. Bot. (official ed.) 519, 1854. 
Syzygium sandwicense (Gray) Ndz., in Engl. 
and Prantl Pflzfam. 3(7): 85, 1893. 
Eugenia sandwicensis var. parvifolia Hdb., 
FI. Hawaii. Is. 129, 1888. 
Syzygium oahuense Deg. and Ludw., Bot. 
Staatsaml. Miinchen, Mitt. 4: 113, 1952. 
Tree or shrub, 3-25 m. tall; branches grey- 
ish-brown to reddish-brown, glabrous; leaf 
scars 1-4 mm. wide, rounded, shield-shaped, 
reddish-brown to yellowish-brown; young 
leafy branches green to reddish-green, gla- 
brous, 1-4 mm. in diameter, distinctly 4- 
angled, angles winged; wings 0. 2-2.0 mm. 
wide, branchlets becoming terete with age, 
dark red to reddish-brown bark scaling off in 
longitudinal strips exposing yellow-grey to 
reddish-yellow bark beneath; internodes 1-5 
cm. long; leaves 2-14 cm. long, 1. 5-5.0 cm. 
wide, obovate, ovate, elliptic or ovate-lanceo- 
late, apex acute, obtuse, retuse, or apiculate, 
base truncate to cuneate, blade coriaceous, 
flattened or concave, margin entire, slightly 
revolute (rarely strongly so), above dark green 
or yellowish-green, shiny, glabrous, minutely 
glandular-punctate, below paler, dull, gla- 
brous, minutely glandular-punctate, midrib 
pink to dark red, shallowly impressed above, 
elevated below; primary lateral veins alternate 
or opposite, 15-30 on a side, 2-8 mm. apart, 
irregularly ascending at 100-115°, meeting in 
an irregularly lobed intramarginal vein 0.5- 
1.5 mm. from leaf margin, raised on both 
surfaces but more distinct below; the veinlets 
raised-reticulate; petioles 2-10 mm. long, 1-2 
mm. wide, reddish-brown, glabrous, cymes 
simple or compound, in axils of upper leaves, 
5-8 cm. long; peduncle 2. 5-3. 5 cm. long, 
1.5-3 mm. wide, 4-angled, winged, yellow- 
green to reddish-green, pedicels 2-4 mm. 
long, articulate; calyx tube tutbinate, 3-4 
