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of niauy-nerved as in ('i/diKd imicrdsh i/in ; the rtowers aiiel falyx are almost black, 

 lieuee the name ulni: tlii» t'rnits are densely uray tomentose; llie species is usnally 

 single stemmetl, Init is occasionally t'oniul hrancliing once ov twice near the base. 



Cyanea atra lobata Kock The Indigenous Trees Haw. Isl. Add. .^11. I'Uo. 



(Plate 91.) 



Elrect single stemmed with snbentire and lobed leaves, petiole murieate, 6-7 

 cm, leaves coriaceous, -ivhen not lobed the margin is almost fringed, or lobed 

 irregularly, deeply, but not to the rhaehis, tubereulate above, covered with an 

 olivaceous tomentum underneath; peduncle longer than in the species, 3-4 cm, 

 many-tlowered, bracts and bractlets as in species; pedicels 15-18 mm; calyx and 

 corolla as in the species, the staminal colunni and anthers glabrous. 



MAUI : Upper ditch trail leading from Ukulele to Waikamoi gulch in dense 

 rain forest, 5000 feet, flowering October 1910, Rock no. 8637 in the herbarium 

 College of Hawaii, and Gray Herbarium. 



Only few plants Avere observed when in company with Air. L. von Tempsky 

 of .^lakawao. 



Cyanea macrostegia Ilillelir. Flora Haw. Isl. 263. 1888. 



(Plates 49, 92, 9:i) 



Plant 2-4 m high, rather rough but unarmed, leaves as large as in Cijnnca 

 (ritoinaiiUia or smaller, 45-62 cm long, 7.5-11 cm wide, gradually narrowing into 

 a petiole of (2.5 cm. teste Hbd.) 10 cm in length, pubescent underneath, papil- 

 losa above, eroso-dentate .- peduncle short 1.5-3 cm, thick fleshy, racemose from the 

 base, densely hirsute in the writer's material, pedicels 1.5-2 cm, bracts broad, 

 oblong of various length from 20-40 nun long, about 6 mm wide, green, liispid, 

 liraetlets 10-12 nun; cahx {smooth glalirate teste Ilbd. ) hirtellous in the writer's 

 specimens, the tube obconical glabrate or hirsute with coarse whitish gray hair, 

 2 cm long, 1 em wide, the calyeine lobes 2.5-5 cm long, 8 nun broad, olitnse, or 

 emarginate, many-nerved, the nerves anastomosing, green ; corolla suberect 5-6 

 cm long, 10 mm wide, fleshy, dark purplish (at first pubescent along the linear 

 lobes, but soon glabrate (teste Hbd.), densely hirsute or strigosely hispid with 

 yellowish coarse hair, especially in its i;pper half and on the lobes, deeply slit 

 at the back; staminal (column and anthers glabrous, dark purple; berry large 

 ovoid 20 mm long, 16 mm wide, yellow, crowned by the large 50 nun long calyeine 

 lobes; seeds shining. 



JIAUI ; West ]\Iani. Kaanapali, Ilonokahau. Wailiee in deep wooded ravines, 

 Hillebrand, gulch at Kaanapali, August 1870, in Herliarium Berlin, and Gra.y 

 Herbarium as Cijaiica tritniiianf]ia Gray; East Maui, Ilanuikna, Waikamoi-Olinda 

 trail, elevation 4000 feet, in dense rain forest, fruiting Septemlier 1910. Rock no. 

 8524 in herbai-iiiiiiCnUege of Hawaii and (Jray Ilerliarinm; — Honoinanu, flow- 

 ering April 1911, Rock no. S524-a in herbarium t'oUege of Hawaii; — Honomanu, 

 flowerins iMav 1911, Rock no. 10262 in herbai'ium College of Hawaii; — forest of 

 Nahikn. tlowi-riug ;\la.\' 1911, Rock iki. 1(1264 in hri'liarinm College of Hawaii. 



Ci/iinrd iinirrosf('f/ia Hillebrand is one of tall-stennned species pectdiar to the 

 rainforests of both West and East j\Iaui ; in the latter locality it grows in com- 

 pany with Ci/aiiia ncuJi 0*111 ara. Ci/aina liainatifhira, ('!< rinonfia arbonscens, 

 TrfrapJamiKjra wciaiidni. Itnlntu, Cnjlamlra niauii iisis, Stoiogyiw, I'liijllostegia, 

 Acacia Koa. Diihautla, t-tc. 



The specimen in Hillebrand 's collection (Berlin Herbarium) is labeled 

 C. atra Hbd., but is in reality C. macrostegia Hbd. As Hillebrand did not num- 



