240 LOBELIACEAE. [Clermontia. 
Clermontioideae. — Calycine lobes free, shorter than the corolla, per- 
sistent; peduncle 2—3- flowered. 
Peduncle hsb 1/2‘ or less: 
Calyx 5-toothed; corolla puberulous; preg nicl get eieweoiey [ C. Gaudichaudii. 
Calyx 5-lobed; corolla glabrous as well as the anthe . C. arborescens. 
Byrn ae or more in length: 
l’ long; corolla blue; berry glob 10. C. coerulea. 
ewan 2 long; drooping, with resupinate oni: perry pyriform ll. C. pyrularia. 
1. C. grandiflora, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 459, tab. 73. — A small tree, 
12—-15 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves obovate to oblong, 31/2—5/ > 11/s—11/2", 
on petioles of 1/2.—-2‘, shortly acuminate or cuspidate, bluntly serrulate or 
dentate, narrowing at the base, chartaceous, glabrous, dull. Pe nele fili- 
form and pendulous, 1—4‘, with a pair of empty bracts near ne middle, 
2- flowered, the slender pedicels 1—2'/2‘, bracteolate near the middle, or 
sometimes 3- or by dichotomy of the pedicels cymosely 4—5-flowered. 
alyx glabrous, rather thin, purplish or greenish, the ovarian portion low 
cup-shaped, x 5", the free portion oibalak, strongly curved before 
expansion, much less so after, 2'/,—3’ in length, 3—4” in width, the 
anterior lobes 1/s—1/2 the length of the whole calyx. Corolla purplish, 
as long as the calyx or a little longer, its lobes eee Berry seal 
subglobose, with a broad depressed disk, 6—12" < 4—8”. — C. gra 
flora, var. ronal ie ae 
W. Maui! L Molokai! The inflorescence of this well —_ species is quite 
teanctsbackty ow en in ‘Sontuatieta s plate, ws the leaves and flov are true to nature, 
the latter by no means too large. Specimens from Gatiblelet's 8 “collection, distribu’ ne 
by the Musée du jardin des Plantes, agree en tl with my plants 
collected in Waihee, Maui (not Kauai i), were described by Wawra as Delissea fliger a- 
crocarpa, Gaud. Bot. nt ese rn 49. — A tall shrub or 
ages po with the young shoots Leaves obovate- oblong, 
‘ X 2—3', shortly acuminate, paesy aa with callous teeth, 
ee into a petiole of 1—11/2’, membranous , not shining above, 
puberulous beneath. Peduncle puberulous, longer t she the pedicels, 
about 1’, two-flowered, with an empty pair of linear bracts (2—3”) in 
its upper half; pedicels - ‘, bracteolaté at the middle. Calyx green, its 
ovarian: portion globose, 5—6” in diameter, the tubular portion equalling 
the corolla, 15—18” long and 4“ wide, suberect. Corolla yellowish-green. 
Staminal column pale green, the anthers rose-purplish, Berry globose, 
yellow, 10—15” in diameter, faintly 5-ribbed. Seeds pale. — C. Kakeana, 
en, in Presl, Lobel. (name si ae and Walp. Rep. II, 708. — C. grandt- 
flora, var. longifolia, Gray, 1. ce. — C. asthe HR Nutt. : 
Oahu! Molokai! Maui! at the lower edge of the woods u 2500 ft. iy pacar! the 
sea. The insipid fruit, which on E. Maui. grows to the size or eas apple, by 
the natives. Meytn’s name is a ser . but, as it was ie “without 
description and the word K. the native rendering of the English name Jack, pro 
bably adopted by the mes peed I forbear from reintroducing it. 
