211 



191G, Cyaiica Faurici was in full bloom ami was also beginning- to fruit, while 

 Cyniica Jlardyi just began to send out the peduncles; the latter were only about 

 5 cm or less long and showed only a few braetlets but no Howerbuds. 



Cyanea spathulata ( Hillebr. I Heller in Minnes. l!ot. Stud. lX:y09, pi. 65. 



18')7. 

 Cyanea coriacca llillel)r. var. sl^afliiilafa Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 234. 1888. 

 RoHaiidia Faurici Levi, in Fedde Repert. Spec. Nov. XII :. 306. 191.V 



(Plates :',:'., 112.) 

 A nuich branching shrub 2-3 m high, often branching from near the base, 

 with the aspect of a Clennontia, glabrous; leaves linear spathulate, dark green 

 above, lighter underneath, with prominent reddish midrib, veins impressed above, 

 the upper leaf surface covered with a dense areolar network, crenate to dentate, 

 bluntly acute or obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, 10-24: em long, 1.5-2.5 cm 

 wide, gradually narrowing into an almost winged petiole of 1.5-6 cm, somewhat 

 pubescent as is the midrib and veins on the underside of the leaf; racemes a.xil- 

 lary, peduncles 2-6 cm long, naked, the racemes often developing into a small 

 branch, the filiform pedicels 1-2.5 em in length; fiowers and berry as in Cijanea 

 angiistifolia. 



KAUAI: Waimea, 4000 feet, Kinidsen no. 11 (two specimens, one labeled 

 Dclissca micrmitha var. 8 coriacca) in Herbarium Herlin; — we.st side of the 

 Waimea river, 4000 feet, August 30, 1895, A. A. Heller no. 2768 in Herbarium 

 Paris ;^ — W. Brighani, without date or locality (Ddissca coriacca var.), in (iray 

 Ilerliarium; — forests and outskirts of forests of Kaholuamano-Opaiwela, eleva- 

 tion 3600-4000 feet, flowering ilarch 3-10, 1909, Rock no. 2425 ;^same locality, 

 September 1909, Rock no. 5664; — Kaholuamauo, fruiting October 1911, Rock no. 

 9008 in herbarium of the College of Hawaii; — Waimea, Abbe U. Faurie, March 

 1910, no. 568 {Iiollandia Faurici Levi.) in Herbarium Leveille and in the her- 

 barium of the College of Hawaii ; — Kaholuamano, October 20, 1916, A. S. Hitch- 

 cock no. 15369 in the U. S. Natioiuil Herbarium ; — Kaholuamano, fruiting Oc- 

 tober 1916, Rock no. 13109 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii. 



Cyanea spathulata (Hillebr.) Heller certainly is worthy of specific rank: it is 

 quite different in aspect from Ci/aiica coriacca, as it is a very nuich branching 

 shrub of much smaller stature; it is, however, related to ('yaiica coriacca, as 

 well as to Cijanca anguslifolia, ('. obtusa. ('. coiiiata. and C. Maniiii. 



Cyanea comata ililleljr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 256. 1888. 



(Plate li:i.) 

 An unarmed shrub 1.6-2.6 m high, with few ascending, distantly foliose 

 branches; leaves obovate-oblong, 15.2-20.3 cm long, 7.6-9 cm wide, on petioles of 

 2.5-3.8 cm. obtuse or shortly pointed, somewhat contracted at the base, closely 

 and sharply dentate, puberulous underneath, chartaceous, the veins minutely 

 areolate; peduncles much longer than the leaves, often exceeding 30 cm, slender 

 and drooping, naked, bearing from 6-12 resupinate flowers toward the end, the 

 pedicels 16-20 mm, curved upward, with minute braetlets above the middle; 

 bracts 3 mm; calyx glabrous, liroader than high, 6 liy 8 nun, the short triangular 

 teeth about one-third the length of the tube; corolla strongly arched, 5 cm long. 

 4-5 mm wide, with the dorsal slit very deep, glabrous, grayish or pale lilac: 

 anthers glabrous, much exserted, 5-6 mm long; Ijerry sid)glol)ose, truncate, 8 by 

 14 mm, broadest at the base; seeds complanate, smooth and shining. 



