291 



Clermontia tuberculata Forbes Occas. Pap. B. P. Bishop Museum \' :8, pi. 

 1912. 



(Plate 161.) 

 A small tree 4-5 m high, many branched; leaves obovate to spathulate oblong, 

 denticulate to serrulate, 15-20 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide, on petioles of 2-5.5 cm, 

 coriaceous, dark green above, paler and minutely pubescent along the veins 

 underneath; peduncle two-flowered, 5 mm long pedicels 2-3 cm, both covered with 

 tubercles ; calyx tul)e campanulate with short obtuse lobes and covered with 

 tubercles throughout ; corolla somewhat cui-ved, 3.5-4 cm long, fleshy and cov- 

 ered with tubercles; anthers dark red, glabrous; berry globose, strongly tuber- 

 cnlate, 1.3 cm in diameter (teste Forbes) ; seeds smooth, yellow, shiny ovoid. 



JIAUI : East j\Iaui, western slopes of Mt. Haleakala, to the east of and 

 between Olinda and Ukulele, flowering July 1910, C. N. Forbes no. 201-m in 

 the herbarium of the Bishop Museum ; — along the Ukulele-Waikamoi trail, eleva- 

 tion 5000 feet, flowering March 1012. R<ick & Ceresole no. 12837 in the her- 

 barium of the College of Hawaii. 



This species is not at all eonnnon ; one tree was observed along the T^kulele- 

 Waikamoi trail, and a second one along' a stream between Puukakai hill and the 

 Kula pipeline trail. 



It comes close to Ch iiikihI in urhnrr.'icriis (^lann) Ililleljr., liut dous nut 

 develop such a size. It is a very distinct species and can be at once recognized 

 by the strongly tuberculata inflorescence, a character which occurs, however, in 

 Cyanea aculeatifloi-a Koek of the section palmaefo'rmes and from the same locality. 



Clermontia Gaudichaudii (Gaud.) Hillebr. Flora Mavvaii. Isl. 243. 1888. 

 Delissea Clennoiitioides Gaud. Bof. Voy. Bonite. pi. 47. 1839-18.^2. 

 Clermontia Clennoiitioides (Gaud.) Heller in Minnes. Bof. Stud. IX;906. 1897. 

 Clermontia Faiiriei Levi, in Fedde Repert. Spec. uov. X:156. 1911. 



A shrul) or small tree, branching candelabra-like, and forming a somewhat 

 flat crown; leaves elliptieal-olilong. to lanceolate, 8-14 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, 

 subcoriaceous to chartaceous, glalirous on both sides, glossy shining above with a 

 close reticulate impressed network, dull and paler beneath, with well-marked 

 darker venation, acute at both ends, margin crenidate, on petioles of 2-4 cm; 

 peduncle short, 1-3 em, bibracteate at the apex; pedicels as long or slightly 

 longer, bibraeteolate at or below the middle; calyx broad campanulate, 15 mm 

 high, with Ave short, acute teefli, 1.5 mm long; corolla arcuate, about 5 cm long, 

 6-8 nun wide, greenish purple, glalirous ; anthers pale glabrous; berry subglo- 

 bose, furrowed. 3 em high, 2.5 cm wide, truncate at the apex. 



ILES SANDWICH: Gaudiehaud. 



KAUAI: Waialeale and Pohainipili, Wawra nos. 2043, 2198 in Herbarium 

 Vienna; — Waimea, Knudsen not in Herbarium Berolinense; — U. S. Exploring 

 Exped. (leaves only) in Gray Herbarium ; — woods near the source of the Wahiawa 

 river, August 12, 1895, A. A. Heller no. 2704; — Kaholuamano, flowering March 

 10, 1909, Rock no. 2499 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — near Mt. 

 Waialeale, Kaluiti stream, fruiting and flowering September 1909, Rock no. 

 5062; — Waimea, March 1910, Urban Faurie no. 578 in Herbarium Leveille and 

 herbarium of the College of Hawaii; — Kaholuamano forest, October 1916, Rock 

 no. 12793 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — Kaholuamano, October 21, 

 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 15428, and on Mt. Waialeale, October 22, 1916, A. S. 

 Hitchcock no. 15482 in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



