381 



here referred to it. Tlie ((iK'stion will always be an oi)en one, as it is next to 

 impossible to identify the fragmentary specimen in the Paris ^NFuseum. 



Bollandia crispa occurs at the lower elevations from a few hundred feet in 

 the valleys on the windward and leeward side up to 1800 tn'\ alony the Mt. 

 Olympu.-; trail, in company M'ith Cijrfaiidra, Bocloiicria slipulnris. Tinuliardia 

 lati folia, Musa, and others. 



Rollandia crispa muricata Rock var. nov. 



Habit of the species, leaves obovate oblong, up to 50 em long, 13 cm broad, 

 pale green glabrous above, with an olivaceous tomentmn underneath ; peduncle 

 longer up to 8.5 cm ; calyx green, pnljescent, the lobes oblong, green, pubescent, 

 as long as the tube; corolla pubescent outside, thin, the lobes muricate or scab- 

 rous as in Cijanca mahra; stamiual eohunn glabrous, only the lower anthers 

 tufted. 



OAHU: Xuuanu Valley, flowering September 1914, Rock no. 10283 in her- 

 barium of the College of Hawaii. 



The specimens referred to var. muricata cannot be placed with any other 



species than JxnUandia erispa. It has the short petioled leaves and the glabrous 



staminal column in common with the species, but differs in the tomentose leaves 



■ and muricate or scabrous coi'olbi lolies. It grows at an elevation of aliout 600 



feet in Nuuanu Valley. 



Rollandia calycina G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. 111:699. 1834. 

 Lobelia calycina Cham, in Linnaea VHI :222. 1833. 

 Delissca calycina Presl Prodr. Monogr. Lobeliac. 47. 1836. 

 Cyanea aspcra A. Gray in Proceed. Am. Acad. V:148. 1862. 

 Rollandia scahra W'awra in Flora od. Allgem. Bot. Zeit. XXXI :46. 1873. 



(Plates 215, 216.) 

 Stem 1.3-2 m tall, muricate, the young shoots and inflorescence covered with 

 a dark brown tomentum ; leaves chartaeeous ovate-elliptical to obovate-oblong, 

 20-42 em long, 7-12 cm wide, on petioles 3.5-8 em long, shortly acuminate, con- 

 tracting more or less suddenly at the base, unevenly crenulate or dentate, the 

 upper face dotted with short stiff hairs on conical papillae, the low^er coarsely 

 tomentose, particularly along the veins, the rib and petiole muricate; raceme 4-8 

 cm in flow^er, longer when with fruit, several-flowered near the apex, distantly 

 bi-acteate below, the bracts about 8 nnn ; pedicels about 2.5-3 cm, bibracteolate at 

 the middle; calyx pubescent the obconical tube 12-15 mm, the broad truncate 

 oblong lobes 5-10 mm; corolla falcate from a rather broad base, np to 8 cm in 

 length, faiuth' pubescent, dark purplish-red with blackish stripes; staminal 

 column adnate to less than one-half its length, slightly pubescent, the anthers 

 hairy along the base and sutures, the upper and lower anthers tufted at the 

 apex ; berry ovoid nearly 2 em long ; seeds pale yellow. 



OAHC: Chamisso in Herbarium P>erlin; — Gaudichaud no. 141 in herbarium 

 Museum Paris (as Bollandia fcrvuyinca, as per a) ; — U. S. Exploring Exped. ; — 

 Wawra no. 1794 in Herbarium Vienna ; — Waiolani, Hillebrand in Herbarium 

 Berlin; — Punaluu ]\Iountains, flowering August 1908, Rock no. 410-a. fruiting 

 December 24-29, 1908, no. 410 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii; — 

 Punaluu-Koolau range flowering August 1911, Rock no. 8844 in herbarium of 

 the College of Plawaii. 



