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De Caiidolle states plainly ''corolla basi rosea, supernea ritbro-violacea.^' Hille- 

 brand incorporated the Kauai and AVest Maui plants with the typical Lobelia 

 Gaudicltaudii DC, but they are quite ditferent from the typical species. Hille- 

 braud's description of the tiowers was evidently drawn from the West Maui 

 plant; about Avhich he says: "Corolla 3-3.5 inches long, 1.5 inches broad, at the 

 base, etc., of thick texture, cream-colored." The flowers of the Oahu specimens 

 are much smaller and of a dark red-carmine-purijle. The aspect of the plant as 

 a whole is ciuite ditferent and so are the leaves. It was Hillebrand's description 

 which caiTsed the writer to err and describe the true Lobelia Gaudicliaudii DC. 

 as a variety eoccinva. The West Maui plant must be considered an undescribed 

 species. 



In the Gray Herbarium are a few fragments of the type of this species col- 

 lected by Gaudichaud, ex Museo Bot. Paris ; also leaf specimens collected by the 

 II. S. Exploring Expedition ; they belong to the true L. Gaudichaudii DC. The 

 midrib of the leaf is distinctly pubescent beneath, as in the writer's specimens 

 from Konahuanui, Oahu 



Lobelia gloria-montis Rock sp. nov. 



Lobelia Gaudicliaudii Hillebr. Flora Haw. Isl. 236. 1888. not De Candolle 

 (in part.) 



(Plates 17, 18, 58.) 

 Stem 1-1.5 m high, thick near the base; leaves oblong, spathulate, acute at 

 the apex, broadly sessile at the base, 12-13 cm long, 3-4 cm wicle, thick coriaceous, 

 pale green, glalirous on both sides, ciliate at the margins near the base, upper 

 margin revolute, with thickened, dark, minute teeth; raceme 50-60 cm or more 

 long, glabrous, bracts broadly spathulate, 3-1: cm long, 1.5 cm wide, denticulate 

 in the upper margin, ciliate in the lower; pedicels as long as the bracts; calyx 

 tube turbinate, 2 cm broad, the lobes lanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, pale with purplish 

 tinge; corolla large, 8 cm long, 1.5 cm broad at the base, broader at the apex, 

 beautiful cream-colored with faint purplish streaks; staminal column glabrous 

 cream-colored ; the anthers grayish blue, glabrous, all five penicillate ; capsule not 

 seen. 



]\[AUI : West IMaui, Mauna Eeke Ilillebrand Herbarium Berlin and Gray 

 Herbarium: — top of ]\It West Jlaui, ilann et Brigham no. 462 in Gray Her- 

 bariiun; — Puukukui elfvatioii 5000 feet in bog w-ith Wilkesia Grayaim. Acaena 

 cxigua, Argyro.riplniiiii sp ? etc., flowering August 1910, Rock no. 8209 in 

 herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Puukukui. flowering, September 24-26 1916, 

 A. S. Hitchcock no. 14861 in U. S. National Herbarium; — Mauna Eeke, flowering 

 Septemlier 3, 1918. Rock & Hashimoto, no. 13130 in Herbarium Rock. 



Tliis glorious .species has been mistaken for the Oahu Lobelia Gaudichaudii 

 to which it does come very close. It differs from it in the very large pyramidal 

 racemes with large cream-colored flowers which are nearly twice the size of the 

 Oahu species ; the leaves are oblong to broadly spathulate instead of oblong lance- 

 olate. To see this species growing is one of the delights of the botanist. During 

 the summer mouths the big bogs of the West Maui mountain summits are re- 

 splendent with the huge racemes of large cream-colored flowers. The writer 

 has not seen this species on any of the mountains save on West Maui. The 

 Kauai species which Ilillebrand also included with Lobelia Gaudichaudii is quite 

 different in aspect. 



The young plants of Lobelia (tloriainonfis are pubescent on both sides with 

 long white hair. 



