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 SECT. V. PILOSAE Rock 



Cyanea multispicata Levi, in Fedde Repert. Spec. Xov. X:10, 11, l.v. I'Ul. 



(Plate 151.) 



Stem densely pHbescent, with 12-20 thick racemes lielow the leaf whorl, ex- 

 tending down the stem for about 10 em: leaves 30-40 cm long, 5-9 cm wide (teste 

 Levi.), only 10-12 cm by 4 cm in the specimen obtained from V. Faurie, on peti- 

 oles of 3-3.5 cm, ovate to obovate-olilong. acuminate at the apex, rounded or at- 

 tenuate at the base, thin ehartaceous, pubescent on both sides, young leaves 

 densely pubescent underneath, entire or slightly dentate; peduncles very short, 

 1.5 cm long, rather thick, with knobby scars, pubescent; calyx cylindrical, 6 mm 

 wide, the calycine teeth trianuular, 2 nun long, acute; corolla 3-3.5 em long, 3 mm 

 wide, color apparently whitish .', puberulous. almost straight or slightly curved, 

 with obtuse lobes, staminal column and anthers glabrous. 



KAUAI: Waimea, 3000 feet, tiowering IMarch 11)10, U. Faurie no. 576 and 

 594 in Herbarium Leveille, no. 576 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



Abbe Faurie "s specimens are very badly preserved, and the fact that his cited 

 localites are not reliable makes it very difficult to check up his plants. For 

 example, his specimen no. 576 is merely labeled "Insulis Sandwich." while in 

 the publication it is cited as coming from Waimea, Kauai. Adding to this the 

 very meagre description by Leveille, it is indeed difficult to make out the affinity 

 of the plant. The species in question is either identical with Cyanea acuminata 

 or it is at least very closely related to it. It seems to differ from the latter in 

 the shorter peduncles, tb.ick coriaceous flowers, cylindrical calyx tube, and glab- 

 rous anthers, otherwise identical with Cijanca acuminata. Till more materia! is 

 at hand, or the ])lant is re-collected, it will have to remain an obscure species. 

 A co-type is in the College of Hawaii hcrliarinni. 



Cyanea acuminata ((laud.) llillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 2.^4. 1888. 

 Dclissca acuminata Gaud. Bot. \'oy. Uranie 457. pi. 76. 1826. 



(Plate 152.) 

 Stem simple and erect, or sparingly branched 1.3-l.(i m high, leaves broad- 

 oblong, acuminate at both ends, dark green above, pale whitish underneath, 

 puberulous on both surfaces, especially along the midrib and veins underneath, 

 flaccid, thin, ehartaceous, entire or faintly denticulate. 14-30 cm long, 4-7 cm 

 wide, on petioles of 2-6 cm ; inflorescence numerous along the stem for about 

 18 em, in the axils of fallen leaves, peduncle 2.5-6 cm in length, puberulous, either 

 naked or covered with knobby scars from the base, bearing from 6-20 flowers near 

 the apex; pedicels slender, filiform, puberulous, 1 cm long, bracts linear, 8-12 

 mm, bractlets minute, deciduous: calyx faintly pubescent, greenish, the tube 4-5 

 mm; the narrow sharp lobes 2 nnn ; corolla white with a slight bluish tinge, 

 puberulous, suberect. about 3 cm long, 4 mm wide, the dorsal slit extending to 

 near the base, staminal column i)ubescent ; anthers blue, hirsute with whitish 

 hair, the two lower bearded only, the bhiutly lobed stigma glabrous: berry 

 globose, yellow. 4-6 mm ; seeds pale. 



OAHU: Gaiulichand in herbarium ^luseum Paris; — Lay and Collie: — ;\Iann 

 and Brigham no. 233 in herbarium Cornell University; — Manoa, Moanalua and 

 Xuuanu Valley. Hillebrand in Herbarium IJerlin, Gray Herbarium and her- 

 barium Bishop iluseum ex coll. Lydgate-llillebrand; — Wawra no. (1793), 2286 

 in Herbarium Vienna; — Pauoa Valley, elevation 1000 feet, flowering October 24, 

 1908. Rock no. 712 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — Punalnu ^Fts.. 



