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nized in the short peduricles and pedicels, the former sometimes measuring only 

 3 mm. 



The specimens from Kilauea differ slightly from the Kau specimens in the 

 darker leaves and darker venation; otherwise they are exactly the same. The 

 species is epiphytic, usually on Cibotium tree ferns. 



Clermontia montis-Loa forma globosa Rock f. n. 



A shrub as in the species; leaves smaller, shorter petioled, glossy shining 

 above, glabrous on both sides; peduncle and pedicels as in the species; flowers 

 a trifle larger; berry large globose, 3 cm in diameter, perfectly smooth, not 

 ribbed. 



HAWAII: Forests of Kilauea near Kalanilehua, flowering and fruiting 

 August 30, 1917, Rock no. 12835 in herbariiun of the College of Hawaii. 



Forma globosa differs from the species mainly in the large globose, perfectly 

 smooth fruits. It grows epiphytically on tree ferns, as does the species. 



Clermontia parviflora Gaud, in Asa Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. V:150. 



1862. 

 Clermontia oblongifolia Hook, et Arn. not Gaud, teste A. Gray. 

 Clermontia pan'iflora pleiantha Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 242. 1888. 

 Cyanea Blinii Le\-1. in Fedde Repert. Spec. nov. X:156. 1911. 



(Plates 24, 192, 19.3.) 

 A shrub 2-3 m high, many branched; leaves obovate-oblong to lanceolate- 

 oblong 10-18 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, on petioles of 2-1.5 cm, chartaceous, shortly 

 acuminate and nuicronulate at the apex, acuminate at the base, closely or irreg- 

 ularly denticulate, dull green, paler and faintly pubescent beneath ; peduncle 

 short. 10-12 mm. bibracteate above the middle, three to (six?) four-flowered; 

 pedicels 8-10 nun ; calyx suberect, the ovarian portion 5-8 nmi high, oblong to 

 turbinate, the free portion as long as the corolla or slightly longer, purplish l_ilue, 

 glabrate; corolla 2.5-4 cm long, purplish blue, the dorsal slit almost extending to 

 the base; staminal column glabrate as are the bluish anthers; berry ovoid dark 

 orange yellow. 



HAWAII: Ins. Owhyhee, ad montem Kaah (Mauna Kea), flowering .Tunio 

 1825, ^Macrae in herbarium Soeiet. Ilortic. London and in Gray Herbarium; — 

 I. Sandwich, Owhj-hee, Bai Byron, Gaudichaud in Herbarium Museum Paris: — 

 1851-1855, Remy no. 305 in herbarium Mus. Paris; — Mann and Brigham no. 

 296 in Herbarium Cornell ; — Kohala range. Waimea mountains, flowering De- 

 cember 1872, Lydgate-Hillebrand in Herbarium Berolinense; — FTolokaiea gulch, 

 Waimea, flowering July 10, 1909, Rock nos. 4362, 4363, 4366 in herbarium Col- 

 lege of Hawaii ; — Kohala Mountains, flowering June 1910, Rock no. 4364 in her- 

 barium College of Hawaii ; — Paauhau no. three, Ilamakua, flowering July 6. 

 1909, Rock no. 4360 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Gleuwood, Hawaii, flow- 

 ering May, 1909, Frban Faurie no. 575 in Herbarium Leveille and in herbarium 

 of the College of Hawaii ; — Waimea, August 26, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock nos. 

 14363, 14408 (fruiting") in Y. 8. National Herbarium; — common at 29 miles. 

 Kilauea Volcano, flowering-fruiting August 1918, Rock & Hashimoto no. 13122 

 in Herbarium Rock. 



OAHU: ]\lay 1825, Macrae in Herb. Soc. Ilort. London, and Gray Her- 

 barium. 



