A New Cyanea from Lanai, Hawaii 



By CharlKS N. Forbes antl Gkorgk C. Munro. 



The following- interesting species of Cyanea was found by Mr. 

 G. C. Munro and Mr. Frank Baldwin at Keonutku, Lanai, T. H. 



Cyanea Baldwinii sp. nov. 



PLATE Xn. 



A shrub 15 dm. high, branching from the base; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 acute at the apex, obtuse at the base, irregularly, strongly, and acutely 

 sinuate, ghibrous .mu dark green above, scabrous or echirul;,te and green 

 below, membraneous, 30.4-39.9 cm. long, 11. 4-12. 3 cm. wide, with echinate 

 petioles 7.9-9.2 cm. long; peduncle dark purple, 14 mm. long, sparingly 

 echinate. few Howered, the bracts narrow-linear 9 mm. long, the pedicels 

 slender. 2.4 cm. long ; calyx purple at the l)ase, sparingly pilose, the tube 

 conical, 12 mm. long, the lobes oblong, abruptly acute, with a strong mid- 

 vein and faint lateral ones, 10 mm. long, 3-4 nun. wide; corolla curved, 

 purple, pilose, 5.9 cm. long, the lobes linear, 1.6 cm. long; staminal column 

 glabrous, the anthers bearded, 11 mm. long. Fruit not seen. 



Type in the B. P. B. M. Herbarium, No. 674, collected at Lanaihale, 

 Lanai, Hawaii, September, 1919, at an elevation of about 3000 feet, by 

 G. C. ]Munro. Only a single bush of this rare species was seen by the 

 collector. 



This plant is distinguished from either Cyanea Gibsonii Hbd. 

 or from Cvanea atra Hbd. by its corolla which is sparingly pilose, 

 not hirsute, by its lighter color, shorter corolla lobes, and by the 

 pubescence of its leaves. In texttire the leaves are similar to those 

 of Cyanea Gib.sonii Hbd. The anthers are shorter than those of 

 Cyanea Gibsonii Hbd. which measure 16 mm. in length, but are of 

 the same length as those of Cyanea atra Hbd. Cyanea Baldwinii 

 Forbes and Mtniro seems rather remotely removed from either 

 Cyanea Gibsonii Hbd. or Cyanea atra Hbd. but cannot be well 

 compared with any other species. Our illustration, plate L is of 

 the type specimen. 



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