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HAWAII : AVoods above Hiilawe, Waipio Valley, Kohala, flowering July 

 IS, 1909, Rock no. 4573 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — gulches back of 

 Kohala proper, lower forests along the sti'eams at an elevation of 1500-2500 feet, 

 flowering and fruiting July 1910, Rock, type no. 8810 in the herbarium of the 

 College of Hawaii, co-type in Gray Ilerbariiuii. Herbarium Sydney, Calif. .Acad- 

 emy of Science. Herbarium Berlin, and Herbarium A'^ienna. 



A ver^- handsome species. It flowers during the spring and sunuuer munths 

 and is restricted to the windward side of Hawaii, district of Kohala. It is un- 

 doubtedly related to Clcrnioiitia Ilaivaiiciisis of the same island, but difl^'ers from 

 it in the long, thin purplish black flowers and in many other respects also. 



Clermontia Kohalae robusta Rock in Coll. Hawaii Pulil. I'ull. 2:41. 1013. 



(Plate 182.) 

 A small tree or shrub, branches exceedingly stout, woody to tlie last ramifica- 

 tion, bark thick corky and covered with numerous thick knobby leaf-scars ; leaves 

 smaller than in the species and on much shorter petioles, densely crowded at the 

 apex of each branchlet ; inflorescence the same as in the species, flowers thicker 

 and more fleshy, the c.ymes in the axils of the uppermost leaves and not all along 

 the stem as in the species. 



HAAVAII: ilountains of Kohala, along stream beds and near waterfalls at 

 an elevation of 1500 feet, back of Kohala proper, flowering July 1910, Rock, type 

 no. 8811 in the herbarium of thi' College of Hawaii. 



A very robust Clevmtintia. perhaps oifly a form of the species. 



Clermontia leptoclada Rock in Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 477. I'M 3, 



(Plate 183.) 

 A tree 6-7 m tall, branching candelabra-like, branches slender, loosely foliose; 

 leaves lanceolate-oblong, acinuinate at both ends, 12-18 em long, 2.5-4 cm wide, 

 denticulate with callous teeth, dark green above, with a dark purplish tinge at 

 the margins and apex, glalu'ous aliove, coriaceous, with impressed veins, pale 

 tuiderneath and sparingly hispid along the veins and midrib, on petioles of 4-6 

 cm; flowers all along the slender stem, on cymosely branching hirsute peduncles 

 of 2.5-4 em, braeteate in the upper third; pedicels two to four, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 

 bibracteolate at the middle, the bracteoles linear-subulate, 5 mm long; ovarian 

 portion of calyx subglobose, 14 mm in diameter, the tube as long as the corolla, 

 purplish with prominent hispid nerves; corolla slightly arcuate 4.5 em long, lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, dark piu-ple, hispid with white hair; staminal column purplish, 

 puberulous, the anthers hirsute along the sutures, bluish purple, the lowej* only 

 penicillate; fruit globose, 2.5 cm in diameter; seeds brown, smooth, shining. 



HAAVAII: Forests alxive AVaimea. along the Alakahi-Kawainni ditch trail, 

 elevation 4200 feet, flowering and fruiting July 13, 1909, Rock type no. 4760 

 in herbarium of the College of Hav.-aii ; — Alakahi trail, flowering June 1910, 

 Rock no. 8814 in herbarium College of Hawaii. 



This species is closely related to CI. montis Loa, but differs from it in the 

 larger flowers, long peduncles and pedicels; though no. 8814 comes very dose 

 to it. It inhabits the high .swampy plateau of Kohala back of AVaimea, and 

 grows in company with f'l (Inpnnntnorpha, Gunnera peiuloidca, Labordia spp., 

 Cyrtandra paludasa. ('In inidi iidron Gaudicliaudii, etc. 



