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Herbarium Borolinense; — Kainokn camp above Kaunakakai, elevation 3500 feet, 

 below a waterfall, tlowerbiids, Jlarch 20, 1910, Rock no. 6117 in herbarium 

 College of Hawaii; — woods above Mapulehu-Wailan Pali, April 1910, Rock no. 

 S069 in lierbarinm College of Hawaii; — ^lapnlchu, April 1910, Rock no. TOfiS in 

 herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Mapulehu, flowering May 1915, Rock no. 127S1 

 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Pukoo, October 8, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 

 15013 in U. S. National Herbarium. 



LANAI: Slopes of Mahana Valley and on the main riduc, tlowering July 

 22, 1910, Rock no. 8018 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii: — upper forests, 

 September 21, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 14677 in IT. S. National Herbarium. 



JIAUI: West Maui, U. S. Exploring Exped. in Herbarium Gray; — Waihee 

 (not Kauai), Wawra no. 1955 in Plerbarium Vindobonense; — Puukukui, near 

 summit, flowering August 1910, Rock no. 8193 in herbarium College of HaAvaii ; - 

 Honokawai, flowering August 1910, Rock no. 8205 (intermediate between CI. 

 grandiflcva and CI. oblongifolia) in herbarium College of Hawaii; — Waikamoi 

 gulch, elevation 4300 feet, flowering and fruiting September 1910, Rock no. 8503 

 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Olinda, October 1, 1916. A. S. Hitchcock no. 

 14898 in U. S. National Herbarium; — Puukukui, young fruits, September 24-26, 

 1916. A. S. Hitchcock nos. 14762 and 14788 in U. S. National Herbarium. 



This distinct species inhabits the rainforests of IMolokai, Lanai, West and 

 East ilaui, from an elevation of 2000 to 5000 feet. The specimens from above 

 Mapulehu or the Molokai specimens in general have the longest peduncles, wliile 

 the Maui specimens have the shortest (2 cm). The Lanai specimens vary slightly 

 and some have the aspect of Clcrmontia obhuigifolia, with which the species is 

 doubtless closely related. On Lanai it grows in the more dry district at the 

 ridge of Kaiholena and ]\Iahana valleys, where it is a shrub; in the more shaded 

 localities it becomes a small tree 15-18 feet in height. It is very plentiful at 4000 

 feet elevation on the windward side of Haleakala, East Maui, in the dense mossy 

 rainforest along Waikamoi, Puohaokamoa, and Honomanu gorges. 



The specific name (jraiuliflorn is very misleading, as its flowers are exceeded 

 in size by CI. arbarcscois and (7. iln panoiiuirplut. 



Clermontia multiflora llillelir. Mora Hawaii. Isl. 242. 1888. 



(Plate 188.) 

 A glabrous shrtib 2-4 m high, leaves lanceolate-oblong 11.25-12.5 cm long, 

 2.5-3.15 cm wide, on long petioles of 6.25 to 7.5 cm, equally acute at both ends, 

 erenulate, pale, ehartaceous to membranaceous ; peduncle 1.75 cm long, slender, 

 umliellately many (seven to ten) flowered, with empty bracts only when fewer 

 flowered: pedicels as long, bracteolate at the base; the bracts 1-2 mm; calys__cif 

 thin texture, glossy pale green, the ovarian portion obconical, 8 mm long, the free 

 tuliular jiortion as long as the corolla, 24-32 mm long and 5 nun wide, suberect; 

 corolla purple at the top as are the anthers. 



]MAri : Gulches of Waihee and Lahaina, flowering August 1870, Hillebrand 

 in Herbarium Berlin and imrt of type in herbarium of the College of Hawaii, 

 and Gray Herbarium. 



OAHU: Wailupe Valley, Hillebrand in Herbarium Berlin and part in her- 

 barium of the College of Hawaii, no. 12782. 



A very interesting and distinct species, which so far has not lieen re-collected. 

 The specimen in tlie Gray Herbarium is labeled: "ClcrnKDifia unilli/lora sp. n.? 

 affln. pi/finiia." Tlie n:imc /iniiiina refers to his CI. )iuilti/lnr(i var. tiiicnniflHi. 



