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Clermontia micrantha (llillebr. I Ruck 



Clennontia multillora niicraiitim Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 242. 1888. 



Clermontia imtltiHora micrantha moutana Rock Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. .^11. 



1913. 



(Plate 189.) 



A shrub 1.5-2 m hiuh ; leaves small thick eoriaeeons when fresh, light green 

 with pinkish veins and denticulate margins, linear-lanceolate acute to acuminate 

 at both ends, glabrous on both sides, 5-10 cm long. 15-25 mm wide, on petioles of 

 2-3.5 cm long; peduncles usually two-tlowered (three to five-tlowered according to 

 Hillebrand*) ; peduncle 5-6 mm long, pedicels about 12 mm; calyx greenish 

 pink, as long as the corolla; corolla 2.5 cm long, pinkish purple, glabrous; stam- 

 inal column and anthers pruinose-bluish : berry ovoid to subglobose, deep orange, 

 15 mm in dia'iieter. 



ilAlT: Waihee Valley, tlowcring August 1870, Hillebrand in Herbarium 

 Berolinense; — above Kaanapali, on ]\It. Puukukui, elevation 4000 feet, Howering 

 August 1910, Rock no. 8179 in herbai'iimi df the College of Hawaii; — upper 

 forest of Piuikukui, West IMaui, flowering and fruiting September 24-26. 1916, 

 A. S.. Hitchcock nos. 14821 and 14784 in the IT. S. National Herbarium and part 

 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — near the summit of ^Mauna Eeke, 

 flowering September 3, 1918, Rock & Hashimoto, in Herbarium Rock. no. 13131. 



A vei-y handsome plant worthy of .specific rank; it is a small shrub with 

 pinkish purple flowers and bright green leaves with a pinkish tinge. The 

 peduncles are nearly always two-tlowered and only rarely three to five-flowered, 

 as stated by Hillebrand. 



Clermontia montis-Loa Rock in Coll. Hawaii I'libl. Bull. 2:40, pi. 9. 1''13. 



(Plates 190, 191.) 

 A small tree or shrub, usually epiphytic; leaves coriaceous, oblong, oljtuse or 

 bluntly acute at the apex, acuminate at the base, glabrous above, covered with 

 close reticulate network, dark green above, pale whitish underneath, and pube- 

 scent with whiti-sh hair, the margin crenate, 10-18 cm long, 2.5-3.5 em wide, on 

 petioles of 3-4.5 cm long; peduncle about 3-8 mm, two-flowered; pedicels of the 

 same length, bracteate at the base, and minutely bi-bracteolate at about the 

 middle; ovarian portion of calyx tube oblong to turbinate, green 12 mm long, the 

 tube as long as the corolla 3.5 cm, glabrous, corolla light purplish green, the 

 dorsal slit extending below the middle; staminal cohuun glalirous dark purple, 

 anthers darker, glabrous, only the two lower penicillate; berry ovoid-oblong, 

 25 mm long, 15 nnn wide, dark orange; seeds elliptical, small, shining, dark 

 brown. 



HAWAII : Forests of Naalehu, Kau, southern slopes of Mauna Loa, eleva- 

 tion 4000 feet, in dense forest, flowering and fruiting January 9, 1912, Rock, 

 type no. 10002 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — slopes of Kilauea-iianna 

 Loa, near 23 miles, in the neighborhood of Kalanilehua, flowering August 30, 

 1917, Rock no. 12833 in herbarium of the f'ollege of Hawaii ; — forests of 29 miles, 

 flowering and fruiting August 1918, Rock & Hashimoto no. 13121 in Ilei'barium 

 Rock. 



The species comes close to ClrniKDitia parri/tnra and forms jici-haps an inter- 

 mediate between CI. prrsicifolia and CI. Kaluaua mi one side, and CI. pnrviflora 

 and CI. hptodada on the other. It is, howevn'. quitr distinct and easily recog- 



* Hillebrand 's spcfinicn is mostly two-tlowerpil. 



