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The two first ones, var. 13 ( !/)ii(isa and y rosra, are not sufficiently distinct to sep- 

 arate them from tlie species ; a five-flowered cyme occurs in specimens from 

 Oahu and also from ]\Iolokai, while two-flowered ones occur on these same plants. 

 His third variety, 8 Hawaiiensis, is sufficiently distinct to be raised to specific 

 rank (see Rock, Indigenous Trees Hawaiian Isl., page 477, plate 199). 



In the Paris jMuseum is a specimen ex coll. Gaudiclnuid no. 146. C. viridis, 

 which may be referable to this species; to the writer's mind it seems to approach 

 a larger-flowered form of Clcrmoniia parviflora. 



Clermontia persicifolia Gaud. Bot. A'oyage Uranie 459, pi. 72. 1826. 

 Clcrmoniia grand iflora var. /3. ohlongifolia A. Gray in part. Proceed. Amer. Acad. 



V:150. 1862. 

 Clcrmoniia pari'iflora ^^'awra in Flora XXXI :47. 1873. not Gaudicliaud. 

 Clermontia pcrsicacfolia Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 241. 1888. 



(I'lates 6, 7, 172, 173, 174 in part.) 



A shrub or small tree 5-6 ni high with a broad, spreading crown ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong to spathulate, acute or rounded at the apex, acuminate at 

 the base, subeoriaceous, dark green, glossy above, pale beneath, eoarselj' crenate 

 or serrulate, 8-10 cm long. 1-2 cm Avide, on petioles of 4-6 em ; peduncle 10-14 ram, 

 usually two-flowered, with a pair of bracts below the middle; pedicels 12-15 mm 

 long, bibracteolate at or near the base ; calyx and corolla slender, whitish to white 

 with purplish tinge, greenish when young. 5.5 em long. 7-8 mm wide, slightl.y 

 curved; staminal cohunn glabrous; anthers whitish glabiMus, the hiwcr three 

 penicillate ; berry subglobose orange yellow. 



OAHU: Gaudiehaud in herbarium ilusetnn Paris; — ex collect. Gaudichaud 

 no. 148 in Herbarium Paris ; — Montagnos, Avril 1855, J. Remy ]io. 307 in Her- 

 barium Paris; — Puahakea, Wawra no. 2206 in IIerl)arium Vindobonense; — Pa- 

 lolo Valley, Hillebrand in Herbarium Berolinense; — Waiolani. 2500 feet eleva- 

 tion, June 6, 1895, Heller no. 2391 ; — Punaluu, main ridge Koolau Mountains, 

 December 3-14, 1908, Rock no. 698 in herbarium College of Hawaii ; — Palolo 

 Vallej^ near crater, 1912, Rock no. 12791 in herbarium College of Hawaii. 



LANAI: Tapper forests of the mountains. September 21, 1916, A. S. Hitch- 

 cock no. 14643 in the U. S National Herbarium. 



Clrnnoiiiia p( rsieifolia, hitherto thought peculiar to Oahu. has lately been 

 found on Lanai by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock. It is evidently very rare, as the 

 writer, who spent several weeks on that island, did not find it. 



It is a handsome shrub or small tree, growing either terrestrially or epiphyti- 

 call,y on Metrosideros trees. It is most common in Palolo Valley at an elevation 

 of 1300 feet along the crater rim. 



Remy's no. 307 is the typical CI. persicifolia, and so is Wawra 's no. 2206 

 {CI. parviflora Wawra not Gaud.). Gaudichaud collected two specimens of this 

 species, one on his first visit, the other on his second visit. One, the type with- 

 out number, has a three-flowered cyme; the other consists of leaves only. It 

 bears the number 148 and is labeled CI. ohlongifolia?? var. cuneata. It was 

 evidently collected during his second visit on the Bonite in 1836-37. Fragments 

 of this plant are also in the Gray Herbarium on a sheet with specimens of 

 CI. ohlongifolia. CI. Gaudichaudii, and perhaps also CI. Kakeana; it is marked 

 var. cuncaia. Bonite. Gaudichaud. 



