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Clermontia parviflora calycina Rock in Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 512. l'U3. 



(Plate 194.) 

 A shrub; leaves as in the species, of little thicker texture, cuspidate, and on 

 petioles of 2.5-5 em, the margins slightly undulate ; peduncle 15 mm long, three- 

 flowered; pedicels thick. 8-10 mm long; ovarian portion of calyx about 11 mm 

 long, tho subulate lobes 5 mm ; corolla 3.5 cm long, about 5 nun wide, slightly 

 pubescent; staminal column and anthers glabrous; berry globose 2.5 cm in 

 diameter. 



HAWAII : High plateau of the Kohala mountains, back of Waimea, along 

 Alakahi ditch trail, elevation 4000 feet, flowering July 12, 1909, Rock, type uo. 

 4793 in the herl)arium of the College of Hawaii ; — Waimea, June and July 1910, 

 Rock ill hi'rl'arium College of Hawaii. 



The only difference is the subulate ealyeine lobes, which are nuich shorter tlian 

 in the speciers; the flowers are much larger, of the size of those of the var. 

 grandis, but otherwise has the aspect of Clermontia parviflora. Two sheets 

 without number, from the Waimea mountains, belong here, though the ealyeine 

 lobes while subulate are nearly 18 mm long; they are not at all connate, but 

 divided to the base. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Clermontia carinifera Levi, in Fedde, Repert. Spec. Nov. XX :505. 1913. 



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