315 



Gaudiehaiid evidently did not recognize his own speeies established in 1826, 

 which is not at all surprising, since the material at its best is fragmentary. 



Clermontia oblongifolia Gaud. Bot. Voyage Uranie 459, pi. 71. 1826. 

 Clermonlia grand illora ji ohloiujifolia A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. V:150. 



1862. pro parte. 

 Clcnnoniia oblongifolia Mauicnsis Rock in Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 476. 1913. 



(Plates 175, 17(5, 177.) 

 A small tree 5-7 m high or more often a shrub ; leaves oblong to obovate oblong, 

 or lanceolate oblong, bluntly acute, or obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, 

 acute or acuminate at the base, coriaceous to subchartaceous, jiale or deep green, 

 lighter beneath, glossy shining above, 8-19 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide, the margin 

 crenulate, on petioles of 3-9 cm ; peduncles two to three flowered, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 

 with one or two pairs of dentiform bracts; pedicels 2-4.5 cm, bibracteolate near 

 the base, calyx greenish, the lobes as long as the corolla, the latter strongly 

 arcuate, 6 cm long, 12 mm wide, glabrous, greenish or purplish and dull, the apex 

 returning to the level of the base; staminal column glabrous, the anthers glabrous 

 or hirsute at the sutures; the berry globose not furrowed, seeds dark brown. 



OAHU: Gaudichaud in Herbarium Paris; — H. S. Exploring Exped. in Her- 

 barium Gray; — Mann et Brigham no. 232 (in part) in Herbarium Cornell;— 

 Hillebi-and in Herbarium Berolinense; — Wawra no. 2356 ex herb. Ilillebrand in 

 Herbarium Vienna; — Konahuauui, elevation 2500 feet. May 2, 1895, Heller no. 

 2239; — Pauoa Valley, flowering November 1908, Rock no. 10(i in herbarium of 

 the College of Hawaii ; — Konahuanui, flowering January 7, 1909, Rock no. 983 

 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Punaluu, Koolau, December 24-29, 1908, Roek 

 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Pauoa Valley, April 20, 1912, Nuuanu Valley 

 1912, Rock no. 12784;— Konahuanui, 1912, Rock no. 12783 in herbarium College 

 of Hawaii;— Mt. Kaala, 2000-4000 feet, July 9, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 13933 

 in U. S. National Herbarium. 



LANAI: Mahana Valley, flowering July 23, 1910, Rock no. S014-a ;— Kai- 

 holena Valley, flowerintj' July 1910, Rock no. S014-b in lierbarinm of the College 

 of Hawaii. 



MAUI: Honomanu, East Maui, elevation 3000 feet, flowering April 1911, 

 Rock no. 8804 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



Of Clermontia oblongifolia there is one sheet in the Herbarium Paris, col- 

 lected by Gaudichaud, but it seems never to have been properly labeled. In 

 pencil appears the following legend, translated: " Attcnuata. Clermonlia oblon- 

 gifolia? violaeca, a light purple, greenish, corolla green-yellowish, stamens 

 whitish purple, style light green, stigma dark green." There is no question of 

 its being CI. oblongifolia. 



In the Cornell Herbarium is one sheet of the Mann & Brigham collection, 

 part of which is CI. oblongifolia and the other part CI. Kal< ana. 



The specimens from Lanai and Maui ilitfer somewhat from the Oahu speci- 

 mens, but they must be referred to ^7. oblongifeiUa. In the Maui specimens the 

 anthers are a deep purple and are hirsute at the sutures; the leaves are also 

 acuminate. 



