Rock: NEw HawallAN PLANTS 139 
in the genus, and is remarkable for the minute flowers, hirsute 
panicles and fruits which are densely glomerate, forming a densely 
packed, globose head, nearly as long as broad. It is related to 
Straussia hawatiensis which differs however in the loose and open- 
whorled drooping, glabrous panicle. 
COLLEGE OF Haw 
HONOLULU, kes ene oF Hawalrr 
Explanation of plate 6 
Cyanea Giffardii Rock. see pyeee eS a type specimen, showing the crown 
of a flowering tree, twenty-four feet in hei 
