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 Clermontia pallida Hillehr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 241. 1888. 



(Plate 180.) 



A small tree 4 to 5 m liigh, quite glabrous leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, pale, ehartaceous, dull, not shining, elliptico-oblong, 10-15 cm long, 

 3-4.5 cm wide, on petioles of 6.5-10 cm long, caspidate at the apex, acute at the 

 base, bluntly serrulate; peduncles 7.5-15 nun long, cymosely three to seven flow- 

 ered, with a pair of empty bracts, pedicels up to 2 em long, bibracteolate below 

 the middle; bracts 14 mm. linear-oblong, braetlets 10 mm long; calyx green with 

 a reddish tinge, the free tubular portion moderately arched, about 5 cm long, 10-12 

 mm wide, glabrous; corolla of the same color as the calyx or darker, glabrous; 

 staminal column bluish purple, pruinose, puberulous, the anthers bluish glal)rous ; 

 fruit (immature) gloljose. truncate. 



ilOLOKAI : Pali of Wailau, Ilillebrand type in Herbarium Bei'olinense, 

 part of type in herbaritun of the College of Hawaii,- co-type in Gray Herbarium; 

 — "Wailau Pali on ridge overlooking the valley, flowerbuds May 1915, Rock no. 

 12788 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — Wailau Pali, flowering and fruit- 

 ing (innnature) December 24, 1!115, Rock no. 12790 in herbarium of the College 

 of Hawaii ; — Kamolo, north of, about 4000 feet elevation, flowering October 10, 

 1916, A. S. Hitchcock in the U. S. National Hei'barium and part in herbarium 

 of the College of Hawaii, no. 12786; — Central Molokai, wet forest, October 13, 

 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 15189 in the U. S. National Herbarium and part in 

 herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



Clermontia pallida is evidently related to CI. muliiflora. but differs from it 

 in the larger flowers, much larger leaves and long petioles; the name pallida 

 refers to the very pale green leaves. The species is peculiar to Molokai. A co- 

 t.ype in the Gray Herbarium is labeled: " ClrniKiitfia sp? an oblongifolia Gaud.? 

 CI. longiper herb. mei. ]\lolokai : pali of Wailau and Pelekunu." 



On the cliffs of Waialeia and Waihanau a variety of the species is quite com- 

 mon : it presents a different aspect from the plants found at Wailau and Pele- 

 kunu; the leaves are much smaller and the flowers are larger and on very short 

 peduncles and pedicels. Were it not for the two-flowered cyme the plant could 

 be referred to CI. multiflora. It is a very much branched, densely foliate shrub 

 or small tree and may be recognized as a new variety of the species as var. 

 ramo!<issima Rock, type no 13116 in Herbarium Rock. 



Clermontia Kohalae Rock in Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 476. 1913. 



(Plates 25, 181.) 

 A small tree 5-6 m tall, loosely branched ; leaves linear oblong, bluntly acute 

 at the apex and slightly emarginate. acuminate at the base, 7-16 cm long, 2-3 cm 

 wide, griidually narrowing into a petiole of 2 to 4 cm, glabrous, dull, pale undei"- 

 neath. with impressed veins, ehartaceous to membranous, denticulate or serrate in 

 the upper two thirds, entire at the base; peduncle 15-35 mm long, two-flowered, 

 hispid or even scabrous, with two triangular bracts above the middle ; pedicels as 

 long as the peduncles, bibracteolate ; ovarian portion of calyx turbinate, green, 

 the lobes as long as the corolla, dark purplish black, thin, subereet or slightly 

 arcuate, glabrous; corolla dark purplish black, glabrous, 5-6 cm long; staminal 

 cohunn glabrous; anthers pale, hirsute along the sutures, the two lower anthers 

 only penicillate; berry subglobose, about 2 em in diameter; seeds pale brown, 

 smooth, shining. 



