Fagara

• Authority

  Degener, Otto. 1937. A New Hawaiian Species of Rutaceae. Brittonia. 4: 362.

• Family

  Rutaceae

• Scientific Name

  Fagara

• Type

  Type, G. Rtuss, collected March 15, 1936, on the south side of Ekahanui, Waianae Mountains, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, alt. 2250 ft., and deposited in the Degener Herbarium (no. 10684). Duplicate in Herb. Goteborg.

• Description

  Genus Description - Arbor parva glaberrima. Folia inferiora alterna, superiora op- posita ( !) vel subopposita, pedatim 5- ad 3-foliolata, in sieco crasse coriaeea, superne creberrime resinoso-punctata, petiolo robusto ad 12 mm. longo suffulta. Foliola subsessilia vel brevissime petiolulata, basi articulata, latissime obovata usque suborbicularia, obtusissima, basi cuneata, nervo mediano permanifesto subtus inerassato obscuro per- cursa, lateralibus parallelis saltem in sieco conspicuis, reticulo venularurn conjulictis; 1-3 majora 6-10.5 cm. longa et 4-7.5 cm. lata, 2 infima minima " stipelliformia, " 1-3.5 cm. longa et 0.8-3 cm. lata, facile eaduca. Infloreseentiae terminales nee non oppositifoliae, 6-7 cm. longae, eymis 3-floris paniculatis compositae, ramis inferioribus sa t longis singulis vel binis oppositis, ramulis oppositis vel ternatis brevius pedunculati; floribus subsessilibus pedicello perbrevi articulato. Bracteae minutae, late triangulares, eire. 1 mm. longae, margine ciliatae. Flores dioici. Alabastra j ovoideo-conica, quadrangularia. Sepala 4, patentia, 2 exteriora majora latissima subobtusa, 2 mm. longa et 2.7 mm. lata, 2 interiora niinora acutiuscula, 1.8 mm. longa et 2.1 mm. lata, omnia margine ciliata. Petala 4 bina arete connata, valvata, 8-9 mm. longa et eire. 3 mm. lata, e basi lata lanceolata, obtusiuscula, carnosa ad 1 mm. crassa, alba (?), extus minute resinoso-punctata. Stamina 4, 4-4.3 mm. longa, antheris late linearibus, obtusis, 2.9-3.2 mm. longis, 1.2-1.5 mm. latis, filamentis 3 mm. longis. Discus quadratus, viridis (?), 0.5-0.6 mm. altu;s, eire. 1.5 mm. diam., centro leviter depresso et tuberculo minuto (gynodio) instructo. Flos (female) et fructus ignoti.

• Discussion

  The new species is allied to F. dipetala (H. Mann) Engl. from the Koolau Range of Oahu, but differs markedly in the shape of the leaflets and anthers. An illustrated description of this new species will appear later in Degener's "Flora Hawaiiensis."