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mm. long, 3.5-5 mm. wide, glabrous, reddish- 
green to yellow-green, minutely glandular- 
punctate, subtended by two deciduous, 
glabrous, deltoid bracts 1-2 mm. long; the 
4 calyx lobes 0.5 mm. long, imbricate, ob- 
tuse, reddish-green to dark red, early decid- 
uous; petals 4, white to greenish-white, 
spreading, soon deciduous, usually discrete 
but sometimes united and falling off as a 
calyptra, ovate or obovate, often emarginate, 
glabrous, glandular-punctate, apex subacute 
or obtuse, base truncate, 2-3 mm. long, 2-3 
mm. wide; stamens (about 30) inserted on the 
margin of the calyx tube, 0.5-1. 5 mm. long, 
introrse, included; filaments white to pinkish, 
subulate, glabrous; anthers white 0.4-0. 8 mm. 
long, orbicular-ovate; pistil white to reddish, 
glabrous, slender, 0.8-1. 5 mm. long, in- 
cluded; ovules 4-10 in a cell; fruit light pink 
to dark red, 4-10 mm. high, 5-10 mm. wide, 
glabrous, shiny, minutely glandular-punctate, 
globose or elliptic, flattened on top, crowned 
by truncate scars of the calyx lobes; pericarp 
fleshy, 1-1.5 mm. thick; seed globose, elliptic 
or oblong-elliptic; seed coat reddish-brown, 
0.5 mm. thick, loosely adhering to the peri- 
carp, closely adhering to the smooth surface 
of the cotyledons; cotyledons equal, greenish 
or white, conspicuously glandular-punctate, 
not fused. 
Type: U. S. Explor. Exped. "Oahu, Sand- 
wich Islands; on the mountains behind Ho- 
nolulu" (US). 
Common name: Ohia ha," known on 
Maui as "Paihi." 
distribution: Endemic to the Hawaiian 
Islands. Found in the moist forests on Kauai, 
Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, and Maui; not known 
from the island of Hawaii. 
Specimens examined: 
Kauai: Waimea, Alakai Swamp trail, 3800 
ft. alt., rain forest, Dec. 25, 1952, Wilson 206; 
on Kaholuamanu above Waimea, Sept. 2-9, 
1895, Heller 2,241; Kaholuamanu to Waimea, 
Oct. 27, 1916, Hitchcock 15,368 (US); near 
Kaholuamanu, Kauluwehi Swamp, Oct. 25, 
1916, Hitchcock 15,520 (US); Wahiawa Mts., 
Lydgate; Wahiawa Mts., August 1909, Forbes 
181. K; Wahiawa, Kahili Swamp, 2100 ft. alt., 
Lihue-Koloa Forest Reserve, Dec. 29, 1930, 
St. John et ah 10,850; Koloa, Laaukahi ridge, 
Va mile north of N.W. facing slope, 850 ft. alt., 
moist wooded gulch, Dec. 24, 1947, St. John , 
Webster and Wilbur 23,007; Laaukahi, Haiku, 
1300 ft. alt., dense woods on precipitous 
slope, Dec. 22, 1933, St. John and Fosberg 
13,486; Ka Loko Reservoir (Kilauea), Oct. 8, 
1916, Forbes 544.K; E. fork of Kilauea River, 
rain forest, alt. 400 m., Feb. 11, 1927, Mac- 
Daniels 654; Wainiha, Wainiha Valley, moist 
lower forest, 800 ft. alt., Jan. 1, 1934, St. John 
and Fosberg 13,929; Wainiha, Wainiha Valley, 
1000 ft. alt., on bank, side of road, in native 
forest, Dec. 31, 1952, Wilson 235; Hanakapiai, 
Napali Coast, forest on cliff, Jan. 2, 1931, St. 
John et ah 10,992; Hanakoa, Waiahuakua 
Stream, 350 ft. alt., Dec. 31, 1952, Wilson and 
St. John 238; Hii Mts., Oct. 22, 1916, Forbes 
652.K. 
Oahu : No locality: Mann and Brigham 204; 
Hillebrand (received July 1865) 311 (GH) 
(locality illegible, probably Oahu) ; U. S. 
Explor. Exped. (US). Koolau Mts.: Kahuku 
Army trail, July 1930, Russ; Hauula, Kaipapau 
Forest Reserve, Maakua-Papali ridge, wooded 
ridge, 1200 ft. alt., St. John 13,372; Kahana 
Valley, head of, Hauula Forest Reserve, 1000 
ft. alt., lower woods, Dec. 10, 1933, St. John 
13,410 ; Kahana Valley (south side of), ridge 
mauka of church, dense forest at 1500 ft., 
Nov. 5, 1950, Degener and Silva 21,069 (US); 
Kahana Valley, head of, 1500 ft. alt., Aug. 
31, 1924, Harris; Kaipapau on S. slope of 
ridge, 2500 ft. alt., Oct. 15, 1933, Suehiro; 
Punaluu, Dec. 3-4, 1908, Rock 632 and 687 
(GH), and 526; Punaluu, Dec. 24-29, 1908, 
Rock 377 (GH); Punaluu, Dec. 3, 1908, Rock 
149 (GH); Punaluu, wet mountain side, Nov. 
30, 1929, Tanaka; Punaluu to Kaipapau, May 
8-13, 1909, Forbes; Punaluu to Kaipapau, 
May 3-8, 1909, Forbes and Cooke, and Forbes 
and Thompson; Punaluu to Kaipapau, Nov. 
14-21, 1908, Forbes; Kahana, Kaluanui, open 
woods, 2000 ft. alt., Nov. 30, 1929, St. John 
