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writer had at first drawn up a description from the specimen in the Paris 

 Museum, whicli is much better than the type specimen. Unfortunately the 

 description was in some way lost after the specimen had been returned to Paris. 

 Professor Fernald then sent him again the one in the Gray Herbarium, from 

 whicli the description is drawn. The illustration represents the nuich more com- 

 plete specimen in the Paris Museum. 



The writer's specimens from Waipio Valley, no. 4663, are doubtfully referred 

 to this species; they come very close to it and are perhaps intermediate between 

 Cyanca plal i//iIiiiU(i and C. Fenialdii. Asa Gray states in his description of 

 C. pJatyphyUa, peduncles short; those of Cyanca Fcr)ialdii and in the writer's 

 no. 4663 are long' (10 cm). The petioles are also very lony (12-lit cm). 



Cyanea profuga Forbes in Occas. P,ap. B. P. IJishop Museum \'l, no. 3. 70, 

 with plate. 1916. 



(Plate 129.) 

 Stem simple, lS-2-t dm high; leaves broadly elliptical, acuminate, acute at 

 the base, unclulate, somewhat irregularly so, glabrous, pale whitish lielow, char- 

 taceous, 23.-1 cm long, 9.8 cm wide, on petioles of 12.2 cm in length; peduncle 

 naked below, glabrous, 9-12 flowered. 2.8-4.1 cm long, the pedicels 9-10 mm long; 

 ealyx cylindrical to obconical, glabrous, the tube 7 mm long, the lobes oblong 

 with rounded apex, 5 mm long; corolla white, slender, subereet, glabrous, with 

 dorsal slit nearly to the base, 3.4 cm long; staminal column and anthers glab- 

 rous: berry not seen. 



MOLOKAI: ilapulehu Valley. Howering July 1912, C. N. Forbes (type;) no. 

 313 ^lo. in the herbarium of the Bishop Jluscum and co-type in the herbarium 

 of the College of Hawaii. 



The species is (piitc distinct, lint seems to be more closely related to Cyanca 

 ■platypliylla than to C. actiiiiiiiata. as suggested by ilr. Forbes; the corolla is 

 more slender than in the former species, but the leaves and the aspect of the 

 plant would slidw a relationshij) with that species. 



Cyanea rollandioides Rock in Torrey Bot. CI. Bull. 4.^:13.^. iyi8. 



(Plate lliO.) 

 Plant 1-1.5 m high, stem simple, fleshy towards the apex, woody towards the 

 base, stem muricate to spinose in the upper portion ; leaves obovate-oblong, acute, 

 fleshy when fresh, pai)ei'y when dry, dark green above, paler underneath, but 

 with dark purjile midi'ib and veins and a prominent dark purple reticulate n('t- 

 work, puberulous or glalirous on both surfaces, but more or less covered with 

 spines on both sides, those of the upper surface .yellow, those of the lower surface 

 deep purple, margins eroso-dentate to irregularly notched, and somewhat uneven- 

 sided at the base. 30-50 cm long, 8-15 cm wide in the widest portion, which is in 

 the upper third, on fleshy stout spinose or muricate petioles, 8-15 cm long; 

 racemes glabrous, peduncle 3-6 em long, naked three fotu-ths its lower length, 

 but distantly covered with .scars of fallen flowers, bearing in its upper fourth 

 about fifteen flowers ; bracts subulate. 3 nun long, sujiporting each pedicel, the 

 latter filiform, 10-25 mm long, bibracteolate, the bracteoles alternate, one at 

 about the middle of the pedicel, the other near the apex, 0.25 mm long; ealyx 

 tube turbinate to obovate-oblong, 7-10 mm high, the linear calycine lobes as long 

 as the tube; corolla deep purplish red or purple to pale yellowish white with 

 dark purplish streaks, moderately arcuate, broadest at the middle, 5-8 nun, about 

 4.5 em long, thin and glaln-ous. dorsal slit very shallow, extending only one fourth 

 the length of the tube oi- a little beyond the two ui)per linear subulate lobes, the 

 three lower lobes a little shorter; staminal column glal)rous, as are the pale 

 greenish antliers. the lower ones only penicillate; fruit \ud<n(iwn. 



