Clermontia.] LOBELIACEAE. 239 
The calycine covering being very thin the capsule is apt to split laterally 
even before the vertex. as very minute, smooth, ovoid, light brown. 
ahu! Wailua and Halem » Molo mac Pa of Pelekunu; Maui! guleches of La- 
haina and Wailuku; Wawslit goers of Koh 
3. CLERMONTIA, Gaud. 
Calyx-lobes either as long as the corolla and then connate bilabiate, 
colored, caducous, or shorter than the —. and free, persistent; the 
ovarian portion globose or turbinate. Corolla tubular, of even width 
throughout, arched or suberect, almost uni- Iabiate, the dorsal slit extend- 
ing to the base, the lateral slits to the middle and the anterior ones 
falling little shoes of the latter. Staminal column free from the corolla, 
generally celine only the 2 lower anthers penicillate. Stigma 2-lobed, 
airy below the lobes. Fruit a globose berry with a broad epigynous 
disk, 2-celled, gs thick everted fleshy placentas which fill the silts 
cells. Seeds numerous, crustaceous, ovoid, smooth, —- Unarmed glabrous 
trees or shrubs with a thick tenacious milksap, branching horizontally 
from the base upward. Flowers few in simple or irregularly compound 
ora 
A genus of Hawaiian plants, characterized by the cymose inflorescence*, the uni- Pap 
soralia, spr full b eed bebo habitus, and the pale or glaucous foliage. Much m 
humerous in individ than the other genera of this Order, it constitutes in cron 
eons a leading: dion an whe Vieeeiee The trunk of the arborescent eons 
Innhon tn diameter mall medull eavity. The thi 
ary uk: 
Sap is used as bird-glue by a natives, who apply the common name «Oha wai» to all 
Species 
arme ntiae genuinae. — Calycine lobes connate, as long a 
corolla or little shorter. (In anthesi the upper lobe of the pay she 
ecomes completely detached from the others, which only split to the 
middle, forming a bilabiate calyx; at maturity the entire tube falls with 
the corolla). 
Peduncle generally 2-flowered; flowers curved in the bud, over 12 
on ot ’ . 
Angee long a and pendulous 1. €. grandifiora. 
short 
Calyx and octet little curyed tie Mise with meena lobes: : 
ves dull, pubescent underneath; bracts 2. C. macrocarpa. 
Leay peel alle bracts 
ashen above, glabrous permet er + € pacteeielts 
Calyx ant rs) ng! hed when oe, “Jeaves an and 
. core jieos bse sly are . 4. C. oblongifolia. 
glabrous 
cle cymosely 3—11-flowered : : 
Flowers more than 13/2’ in length, curved when Opts ais 5. C. pallida. 
Flowers less than 12‘ suberect even in the 
bu: 
Leaves lanceolate, pale; —. dentiform ; color of calyx and 
bara c. ee ee eas 1 f rf and 
ves stots k; bracts linear; color of calyx ; 
corolla a acrar oft ax 7. C. parviflora. 
6. C. multifiora. 
Each of the three aug in the Botany of Freyeinet’s Voyage gives a wrong represen: 
tation of the infloresce 
