Campanulaceae. 
shorter and thicker( almost four-cornered) than the two outer pedicels. In the 
four-flowered specimens the corolla is purple, while in the long peduneled, two- 
flowered specimens the corolla is either whitish or green. 
This species occurs in the semi-wet forest on the land of Keauhou about three 
miles from the Voleano House. It becomes exceedingly plentiful as one pene- 
trates into the interior. It usually grows on the trunks of Cibotium tree ferns 
or is also occasionally terrestrial. It is associated with Acacia Koa, Metrosideros 
polymorpha, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Straussia sp., Myoporum sandwicense, ete. 
The specimens found lower down along the government road come nearer 
to Cl. macrocarpa; while the plants found back of Hilo are Clermontia macro- 
carpa. The plants found below the Voledano House and those beyond Shipman’s 
paddock on Keauhou, cannot be very well separated, and therefore the writer 
found it advisable to make it a species, as the plants from the type locality can 
certainly not be called a variety of Cl. macrocarpa. 
Collected April, 1911, July, 1911, and July 9, 1912, in company with Mr. 
W. M. Giffard. The type is No. 8803 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 
Clermontia Gaudichaudii (Gaud.) Hbd. 
Haha or Hahaaiakamanu. 
eo GAUDICHAUDII (Gaud.) Hbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 243;—Del. Cast. 
Fl. Ins, Mar. Pacif. VII (1892) 211.—Delissea clermontioides Gaud. Voy. Bon 
(188s) ee Pile A abies p- 64;—Gray Proce. Am. Acad. V (1862) 147;—H. Mann. 
p. awra in Flora ee 8.—Clermontia clermontioides Heller Pl. 
ae Tel. (1897) 906. Clermontia Clermontioides (Gaud.) Heller, ee pee! - 
correct but owing to the silliness of the combination, Hillebrand’s na her 
retained. 
Leaves elliptico oblong to lanceolate 8 to 12 em x 1.5 to 4 em on petioles of 2 to 3 
em, acute at both ends, oo > onc hege. pale and dull, chartaceous; peduncle shoes 
out em; pedicel s 12 to bracts 1 m ae: bien rae ad campanulate about 15 mm 
high with 5 ee rt ape tage: srr eups Tehed a in C. oblongifolia, about 4 em 
long and 1 em wide, greenish purple; ix pile, iapioue: berry globose, furrowed, 
22 to 25 mm in diamet 
This species, which is peculiar to the middle forest region of the Island of 
Kauai, is either a shrub or small tree, with many candelabra-like branches form- 
ing a beautiful round or flatish crown. It grows mainly along stream beds, and 
is plentiful along Waialae gulch (4000 feet). It also grows in the swampy high 
plateau in gray, muddy soil, or can often be found on other trees between their 
main branches in accumulated humus. 
It ascends even as high as to the foot of Mt. Waialeale (4600 feet), where it 
grows in company with the curious Gunnera petaloidea, or Apeape, along Ka- 
Initi and Kailiili streams. 
The natives, as well as the birds, are very fond of the large, sweet, yellow 
berries, from which the tree receives its name, Haha or Oha being the native 
generic name for all Clermontiae, while ai a ka manu is the specific one, meaning 
““eaten by the birds.’’ 
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