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by the command of the chiefs, or parts of it 
were used in 'Vicious sorcery.’’ The nioi 
growing on Maunaloa was also claimed to be 
poisonous (Neal, letter). If our identification 
of this nioi as Eugenia molokaiana is correct, 
then we can attribute the belief of its toxicity 
only to superstition. 
TAX A REQUIRING FURTHER STUDY: 
Episyzygium oahuense Suesseng. and Ludw., 
Bot. Staatsaml. Miinchen, Mitt. 1: 10, 1950. 
The genus Episyzygium is based on a single 
specimen which was collected by A. Meebold 
in the Waianae mountains in 1930, [A. Mee- 
bold 8,445 (M)]. I believe that the peculiar 
4-loculed ovary is most likely an abnormality 
of Eugenia sandwicensis. Until such a time that 
additional corroborative material is collected, 
I feel that the genus Episyzygium and the spe- 
cies Episyzygium oahuense should be considered 
as being based on an aberrant individual. 
Hillebrand (1888), Rock (1913), and Deg- 
ener (1932-34) all reported a rare white form 
of Eugenia malaccensis ( Jambosa malaccensis f. 
cericarpa Deg.). I have not been able to locate 
any specimens of this form. 
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