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Cyanea fissa (H. Mann) Hillebr. Flora Hawaii. Isl. 255. 1888. 

 Dclissca fissa H. Mann, Enum. Haw. PL in Proc. Am. Acad. VH:182, n. 271. 

 1S68. 



Cxaiica hiiiiiilis W'awra in Flora od. Aiigem. Bot. Zeit. XXXI :47. 1873. 



(Plates 120, 121.) 

 A branc-hing shrub 'iA m liigh : leaves olxivate-lanceolate, 40,5 cm long, 9 em 

 wide, including tlie petiole in which they gradually merge, acuminate, crenate, 

 glabrous above, sparsely hairy underneath, particularly along- the rib and veins ; 

 peduncle covered with coarse glandular hairs as are the calyx and corolla, 2.5-5 

 cm long, 8-12-fiowered ; pedicels 12 mm, braeteolate; bracts 6-8 mm; calyx tube 

 6-8 mm, the acute narrow-lanceolate lobes as long or considerably longer ; corolla 

 pale purple, slightly curved or erect, slender, the lobes linear, the dorsal slit ex- 

 tending to the base ; anthers glabrous. 



KAUAI : Valleys of Kealia and Ilanalei, flowering, Mann and Brighani no. 

 577 in the Gray Herbarium, and lierbarimn of the Bishop i\IiLseum ; — Hanalei, 

 Wawra nos. 2186 and 2187 (the latter as C. humilis) in Herbarium Vienna; — 

 forests of Kealia to Haruilei, flowering, V. W. Hardy no. 13105 in the herbarium 

 of the College of Hawaii. 



Wawra 's Cyanea humilis is identical with Cyanea fissa,. The difference in 

 the length of the calycine lobes and peduncle is not sufficient to warrant its sep- 

 aration, even as variety, from C. fi^ssa. 



The plant collected by Abbe Faurie and described by Leveille as Cyanea 

 Feddei was by mistake referred to Cyanea fissa by the writer; it is, however, 

 identical with Cyanea sylrestris Heller. 



Cyanea Gayana Rock in The Indig. Trees Hawaii. Isl. add. 510. 1013. 



(I'lates ;!0, 122.) 



Trunk 1-1.5 m high, hardly woody, erect, stem smooth, not branching (only 

 when Ijroken^, foliose at the apex; leaves growing at almost right angles to the 

 stem, thick fleshy, lanceolate oblong, bluntly acute, denticulate 28-35 cm long. 

 5-8 cm wide, gradually narrowing into a margined petiole of 1 cm, making it 

 appear subsessile, the lower portion entire, dark green above, glabrous, veins and 

 midrib bright red, thick fle.shy, lighter underneath, and covered with a grayish 

 pubescence; peduncles thick fleshy, multi-bracteate from the base, hispid-.strigose, 

 bearing flowers from half its length to the apex ; pedicels densely hirsute. 1-1.5 

 cm long, bracteate at the base; calyx dark, hirsute as in the corolla, tube ovate- 

 obeonical, (i-8 nun, the lobes triangular dentiform, 4 nun; corolla, suberect ma- 

 genta red with darker streaks, 3-4 cm long by 4 mm wide, the dorsal slit ex- 

 tending to the base; staminal cohunn glaln-ous as well as the anthers, of the latter 

 the two lower only penicillate; fruit ovoid, of a glaucous color, about 2-1.5 ( f ) cm 

 long, crowned by the calycine teeth. 



KAUAI : Mountains back of Waimea, woods of Kaholuamano, 4000 feet, 

 along streams only, near Waialae and Waiakealoha, flowering March 10, 1909, 

 Rock no. 2463 in herbarium College of Hawaii; — September 1909, fruiting. Rock 

 & Forbes;— Waiakealoha. October 20, 1911, Rock no. 9015 (flowerbuds) in the 

 herbarium of the College of Hawaii ; — Waialae Valley, flowering September 1909, 

 Rock no. 4S93 in the herbarium of the College of Hawaii; — Kaholuamano, Oc- 

 tober 20, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 15302 in U. S. National Herbarium. 



The specimen was named in honor of 'Sir. Francis Gay of Kauai. It grows 

 in company with Cyanea recta, Cyanea spathulata, Hillebrandia, Clernwntia 

 fraudichfDidii. Crytandi a and others. 



