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margin; the veinlets less distinct, raised- 
reticulate; petioles 2-5 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. 
wide, dark reddish-green, glabrous; flowers 
single or in pairs, axillary; peduncles 2-4 cm. 
long, 4-angled or terete, glabrous; calyx tube 
2-3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, green, glabrous 
or sparsely puberulent; calyx lobes 4, per- 
sistent, 3-4 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, mem- 
branaceous, green, ovate with acute apex, 
ciliate, minutely glandular-punctate, attached 
to annular disk within the tube; petals 4, 
white, spreading, persistent, obovate with an 
obtuse apex, ciliate, 7-8 mm. long, 5-6 mm. 
wide, sparsely glandular-punctate; annular 
disk raised 0.5 mm. above point of petal in- 
sertion, strigose; stamens numerous (about 
50), spreading, inserted on annular disk; fila- 
ments 3-7 mm. long, white glabrous, sub- 
ulate; anthers white, 0.5-1 mm. long, orbic- 
ular-ovate; style, terete, subulate, slightly 
exserted or included, 4-6 mm. long, glabrous; 
fruit subspherical, red, 1-2 cm. high, 1-2 cm. 
wide, glabrous, minutely glandular-punctate, 
crowned by the persistent calyx lobes, con- 
spicuously longitudinally 8-ribbed; pericarp 
fleshy, 2-3 mm. thick; seed subglobose, 8-15 
mm. in diameter, seed coat thin membranous, 
loosely adhering to the pericarp or to the 
surface of the cotyledons; cotyledons fused, 
finely glandular-punctate. 
Common name: Surinam Cherry, Pitanga. 
distribution: Very sparingly naturalized 
on the larger islands. Native to Brazil. 
Specimens examined: 
Kauai: Lihue, planted, June 10, 1926, 
Degener 2,080. 
Oahu: U. S. Expt. Station, Oct. 25, 1926, 
MacDaniels 349 . 
Molokai: Halawa Valley, 50 ft. alt., shrubs 
by roadside, Dec. 27, 1932, St. John et al. 
12,663. 
Hawaii: Planted and persisting, April 10, 
1930, Degener 7,331 (NY). 
The number of collections of this species is 
very meager, and future collections should be 
made to establish the occurrence of it in the 
Hawaiian Islands. 
6. Eugenia rariflora Benth., in Hooker’s 
London Jour. Bot. 2: 221, 1843. 
Eugenia waianensis Deg., FI. Hawaii., Fam. 
273, 7/15/32. 
Eugenia koolauensis Deg. var. glabra Deg., FI. 
Hawaii., Fam. 273, 8/10/32. 
Eugenia rariflora Benth. var. parvi folia Hdb., 
FI. Hawaii. Is. 129, 1888. 
Tree or shrub 3-7 m. tall; branches grey to 
greyish-white, glabrous, in age the bark grey- 
ish-white to greyish-brown, longitudinally 
and transversely irregularly furrowed; leafy 
branchlets 1.5-2 mm. in diameter, quadran- 
gular to terete, brown, brown puberulent 
when young; leaf scars rounded shield-shaped, 
1-1.5 mm. wide; bundle scar 1; internodes 
0.5-3 cm. long; leaves opposite, 3-7 cm. long, 
1.5-5 cm. wide, blade elliptical, ovate or 
obovate, apex obtuse, acute, refuse or apic- 
ulate, base cuneate or rounded, coriaceous, 
above olive-green, shiny, minutely glandular- 
punctate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent 
near midrib, below dull, yellowish-green, 
minutely pustulate, glabrous or somewhat 
puberulent at base near midrib; midrib shal- 
lowly impressed above, elevated below; pri- 
mary lateral veins alternate or opposite, 5-3 
on a side, 4-8 mm. apart, irregularly or 
straight ascending at 140-150°, meeting in an 
irregularly lobed intramarginal vein, 1-2 mm. 
from leaf margin, raised on both surfaces, but | 
more distinct below; the veinlets raised-retic- I 
ulate; petioles 2-4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
brown, glabrous or slightly puberulent; | 
flowers single or in pairs, axillary; peduncles 
5-15 mm. long, glabrous or puberulent; calyx | 
tube 2-3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. across, obconic, 
brown, puberulent, minutely glandular-punc- j 
tate, subtended by two persistent, subulate 
sparsely puberulent bracts 1-1.5 mm. long; 
calyx lobes 4, unequal in length, 1 opposite 
pair 3-4 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, the other \ 
pair shorter, 2-3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, 
ovate, green, fleshy, persistent, below mi- 
nutely glandular-punctate, glabrous, above : 
glabrous, within the tube attached to annular 
