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This species, which resembles a form of Cijaiica scabra variabilis (no. 8789 

 from Ilojiomami. East ^laiii), is closely related to Cijaiua scabra and belongs to 

 the section of which the latter is the type. 



Hillebrand's statement in regard to the upper anthers being ciliate at the 

 apex is incorrect; the writer examined Hillebrand's type and could not corrob- 

 orate his findinus: neither is it to be foiuid in his variety 13. 



Cyanea holophylla obovata Rock 



Cyanca holophylla p var. Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 2?7. 1888. 



Leaves 19-41 cm lonu'. about 15 cm broad, otiovate, acute at the apex, narrow- 

 ing at the base into a i)eliole 6-10 cm long, peduncle 1.5 cm long, bracteate at the 

 apex: calyx oblong 8 mm long, the lobes 10-11 nun long, with a strong median 

 nerve and two obscure lateral ones, acute: corolla curved, muricate on the ventral 

 side only, in the bud, puberulous. 



MAUI: West JMaui, type in Herbarium Herlin, part of type (flowers) in the 

 herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



The large obovate leaves distinguish this variety at once from the species. 



Cyanea solanacea Hillebr. Mora Hawaii. Isl. 2.^9. 1888. 

 C\aiica aniiata Hillebr. AISS. 



(Plates 147, 1-18.) 

 "A stout freely-branching shrub, 20-27 dm high, the stiff ascending branches 

 aculeate with slender straw-colored thorns; leaves of young plants deeply cut 

 into sharp sinuate segments, the stem, petioles, ribs and nerves bristling on both 

 faces with thorns, which resemble those of Solamim aruleatissimuni; leaves of 

 adult plants obovate-oblong, 25-32.5 cm long, 7.5-12.5 cm wide on petioles of 

 2.5-1 cm, shortly acuminate, contracting at the base, sinuate or lobed, the blunt 

 lobes seldom exceeding 12 mm in depth, hispidulous underneath, unarmed, thick 

 ehartaceous. with jn-ominent veins; peduncle tieshy, 2.5-5 cm, bracteate from the 

 base, but bearing flowers only near the apex; pedicels 8-12 mm; bracts 2-4 mm; 

 calyx green, glabrous, the tube obconieal 8 mm, the lobes oblong, truncate, 4-8 

 mm, thick fleshy, 1-nerved, apiculate, with intervening sinuses ; corolla white, 

 with a lilac tinge, semierect, slender 5 cm long, 4 mm Itroad, sparsely hispid or 

 glabrous, with lobes warty (rather scabrous as in ('. scabra Hbd. (J. F. Rock), the 

 dorsal slit deep : staminal column pubescent ; the upper anthers beardless ; stig- 

 matic hairs in a ring: style lilac: berry obovoid IB nnn long, orange-colored; 

 seeds reddish, smooth. 



MOLOKAI: Kalae, Mapulehu, 1000-2000 feet, anno 1870 Hillebrand in 

 Herbarium Berlin ; — Kamolo, fruiting June 1910, U. Faurie no. 668 in Her- 

 barium Leveille and the herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



The writer has not collected this species, but has examined Hillebrand's type 

 in the Berlin Herbarium; his original label is lost, and the Berlin Herbarium 

 label reads: "Cyanea solanacea Hbd. var. cjuerci folia Hbd. Kalae auf Molokai." 

 Hbd. 's ^ar. qucrcifolia comes from Ulupalakua, Maui, and not Kalae, ilolokai, 

 and as there is no plant in his collection answering his description of the variety, 

 and as there is no other plant in the herbarium labeled as C. solanacea, the one 

 from Molokai mast be the type of the species, the description of which it answers 

 perfectly; both plants, the species and variet.w are here reproduced. 



There is another specimen i?i Hillebrand's herbarium marked in his hand- 

 writing, "Cyanea annafa sp. n. Ifolokai": this is identical with Cyanea solanacea 

 Hillelir. llillclirand never adopted his older name armala. but puliIisluMl his 



