For example, we find in no. 47f)4-d, ealyeiue lobes measurino 22 mm in length; 

 they are, however, not ''onnate, but free to the base. In no. 4794-b the ealycine 

 lobes measure 8 nnn. There are other intermediates with ealycine lobes of all 

 lengths, but not as long as the corolla, and only in one instance (no. 4794-c) is 

 there a tendency of the lobes becoming connate. The species is closely related to 

 Clermoniia montis-Loa, CI. parviflora and CI. parvifora cahjcina. There is also 

 a tendency to develop a raceme instead of a true cyme, and thus the species 

 probably establishes the link between Cyaiiea and Clcrinontia. The habit of the 

 plant as well as the leaves is that of a tjT)ical Clermoniia. 



Clermontia pyrularia llillel)r. Mora Hawaii. Isl. 243. 1888. amend. 



(I'late UiS.) 

 Leaves lanceolate acute or bluntly acuminate 20-28 cm long, up to 5 em in 

 width, chartaceous, dull, glabrous above, pale and wliitish pubescent underneath, 

 on petioles of 2.5-8 cm long, peduncle 5-6 cm long, deflected, nodding, (|uite naked, 

 two to three-tlowered, pedicels 8 mm to 2 em long, resupinate. with short brac- 

 teoles near the base: calyx turbinate 12 mm long and broad, with short obtuse 

 teeth, puberulous; corolla moderately curved, 6-8 nmi wide, puliei'ulous; berry 

 large pear-shaped 2.5 cm long, about 2 cm wide; seeds dark brown, shining. 



HAWAII: Woods of Ilamakua, Hillebrand in Herbarium Berlin: — ]\Iauna 

 Kea, northeast slopes, elevation 70(10 feet, fruiting August 28, 1916, A. S. Hitch- 

 cock no. 14305 in the U. S. National Herbarium and part in the herbarium of the 

 College of Hawaii. 



Prof. A. S. Hitchcock was the first to re-collect this interesting species. It 

 comes close to CI. dn paiioimirplin, but differs from it in the short obtuse ealycine 

 teeth, while those in Clermontia drcpanoniorpha are as long as the corolla and 

 enclose the same. It grows in the wet shady woods on the northeast slopes of 

 .Mauna Kea at an elevation of 7000 feet, llillehi-and simply gives as localit.v, 

 woods of Ilanuikua, Hawaii. The Ilamakua district is exceedingly large and 

 ranges from sea level to 10,000 feet elevation in' even more; without more defi- 

 nite locality it is certainly difficuH to locate such i>recinctive species as lielong 

 to the Lohdiiiidrac. 



Clermontia Haleakalensis R<ick Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. 48'', pi. 204, 203. 



1913. 



(Plates 8, 26, 169.) 

 A small tree 6.5 m high, with few robust lu'anches, glabrous ; leaves 20 to 30 

 cm long including the short margined petiole, Heshy, 1.5 to 4 cm wide, obtuse, 

 oblong lanceolate, dark green above, pale underneath, midrib thick prominent, 

 veins impressed, pellucid, the upper half crenate, lower half entire, glabrous, 

 gradually tapering into a short margined petiole; cymes in the axils of the leaves, 

 peduncle 2 to 5 cm long, bearing usually 6 fiowers on pedicels of 1 to 1.5 cm, the 

 Ijracts linear subulate al)out 7 nnn, the pedicels bibracteolate below the middle; 

 calyx tube oblong turbinate 1.5 cm slightly judiescent, the lobes linear suliulate 

 5 mm long, corolla whitish green 3.5 to 4 cm long, curved, the dorsal slit not 

 always extending to the base, sometimes only to the middle, lobes linear lanceo- 

 late glabrous; staminal colunni white pubescent at the base, as is the disc, glab- 

 rous in the upper part, the two lower anthers penicillate; style slightly pubescent, 

 inner side of the staminal column hispid with white hair in the lower half, berry 

 oblong, seeds smooth whitish. 



