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Clermontia drepanomorpha Rock in Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 473, pi. 196. 



1913. 



(Plates 184, 185.) 

 A small tree 4-6 m tall, jnueh branching, leaves lanceolate-oblong, obovate. 

 linear-elongate, S-IS em long, 1.5-4 em wide, glabrous above, sparsely hispid 

 underneath along the prominent I'eddish midrib, dark green above, lighter under- 

 neath, denticulate in the upper two thirds with callous teeth, entire in the lower, 

 coriaceous aeuminate-mucronate at the apex, acuminate at the base, the margin 

 often revolute ; petiole 2-5 cm ; peduncle glabrous, two-flowered, 6-8 cm long with 

 flowers, 10 cm with fruit, naked, deflected, nodding; the pedicels 2 em, resupi- 

 nate ; bracts and bracteoles triangular ; calyx dark purplish, the ovarian portion 

 1.5-2 cm, turbinate to globose, the lobes as long as the corolla, purple; corolla dark 

 purple, fleshy, slightly curved, 4-6 em lonu', 1.5-2 cm wide, pnberulous; staminal 

 column glabrous, purplish, anthers bluish-lilac, hirsute along the sutures on the 

 inner side, glabrous outside, the lower only penicillate: berry large globose, 

 orange yellow, 3 em in diameter ; seeds yellowish brown, smooth. 



HAWAII : On the swampy high plateau of Koliala along the gorges of 

 Alakahi and Kawainui and near the summit of Kohala in the more open swampy 

 forest, growing terrestrially in ^Sphagnum moss, flowering July 12-13, 1909, Rock, 

 type no. 4751 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii; — same locality, no. 4745; — 

 tabular summit, swampy forest of Kohala, flowering July 1910, Rock nos. 8807, 

 8808, 8809 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — Waimea, Hawaii, August 

 25, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock in U. S. National Herbarium. 



This remarkable species, with flowers as large as those of CI. arboresccns, if 

 not larger, inhabits tlie summit swamp-sphagnum forests of Kohala, Hawaii; 

 the species occurs in thousands of trees, but each seems to have a different 

 aspect. It is a very variable species as far as the foliage is concerned, but the 

 inflorescence does not vary at all, only perhaps in color. It is one of the finest 

 Cle7-montias and at once recognizable by the long drooping inflorescence and 

 large purple flowers. The calyx is as long as the corolla ; otherwise it would 

 come exceedingly close to Clcnnnntia pyndaria. 



Clermontia grandiflora (iaud. Hot. \'oy. Uranie 439, pi. 73. \^2(>. 

 Clermontia grandiflora var. brei'ifolia A. Gray Proc. Am. Acad. V:150. 1862. 

 Dclissca fiUgcra W'awra in Flora XXXI :31. 1873. 



(Plates 180, 187.) 



A small tree 4-5 m high, glabrous ; branches slender ; leaves obovate to 

 oblong, shortly acuminate, acute or cuspidate at the apex, bluntly serrulate or 

 dentate, narrowing and acuminate at the base, 8-15 cm long, 2.5-4.5 cm wide, 

 chartaceous, glabrous and dull; petioles 1-5 cm long; peduncle filiform and pen- 

 dulous 2-11 cm long, bracteate at the apex and above the middle, two-flowered, 

 the slender pedicels 3-6 cm long, bibracteolate near the middle (or sometimes 

 three or by dichotomy of the pedicels eymosely four to five-flowered teste Hille- 

 brand); calyx glaljrous. rather thin, purplish or greenish, the ovarian portion 

 low cup-shaped, 1 cm high, about 15 mm broad, the free portion tubular, strongly 

 curved before expansion, much less so after, as long as or shorter than the corolla ; 

 corolla about 6-7.5 cm long, 8-10 mm wide, purplish or greenish, glabrous ; stam- 

 inal column glabrous, as are the anthers; berry obpyriform, deep orange yellow. 



ILES SANDWICH: Gaudichaud. type in Herbarium Paris. 



IMOLOKAI: Voyage de M. J. Remy 1851-1855, Remy no. 306 in Herbarium 

 Paris and Grav Herbarium; — heights back of Kamolo, Julv 1870. Hillebrand in 



