258 LOBELIACEAE. [Cyanea. 
auricles, membranous, glabrous. Raceme 2—3‘ long, bracteate from near 
10- 
the base, 6—10-flowered in the r half; pedicels 1—1'/2‘; bracts 
lanceolate, 6. Calyx glabrous, a the obconical, 6—8“ long, the lobes 
broad foliaceous, crisp and brittle, 10-18  4—6, many-nerved and 
net-veined, acute. Corolla paces nearly 3‘ long and 4/2‘ wide, light 
purple or lilac, with deeper stripes, glabrous, but the lobes sometimes 
warty. Staminal column glabrous, of the same color, the upper anthers 
tufted at the apex with long and stiff hairs. Berry large obconical 1— 11/2‘ 
long, orange, crowned with the calycine lobes. — Bi Prod. VII, 344. — 
ray, l. e. p. 148. — Mann, Enum. no. 277. — Occasionally a + pinnae 
leaf occurs on young ope Gray’s- var. sitratlitclia ae represents 
a young plant of no. 16 o 
Oahu! on both ranges, those from Kaala with lobules between the pinnae. 
8. — Pinnae larger and broader, laciniate, decurrent along the rhachis. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical, the lobes twice as long, 12—18”. Corolla almost 
white. 
W. Maui! Oloalu. ss 
7. — Pinnae sinuately ers contracted at the base. Calyx-tube short 
cylindrical, 4, the lobes 
E, Maui! Hamakua ea 
15. C. solenocalyx, sp. n. — A stout and tall shrub, 6—12 ft. high, 
the stem hollow, the thick nied stiff branches muricate below, aculeate 
above with pale yellow conical spines. Leaves dimorphous, those of the 
pedicels 6—12", the bracts linear-lanceolate, 9—18"; the bractlets 4—6”. 
Calyx scabrous ‘ond hirsute or hispid, but snot giabraté with age, the 
adnate portion 6’, the broad foliaceous several-neryed lobes 10—12” long 
anthers — the upper ones beardless. Berry ovoid, 8“. Seeds pale 
yellow. 
phe ig es deep gulches of Sree = and elsewhere. Called «Puakala» by 
the na oe generally rot inside the long calyx-tube; well developed corollas 
are Gussie a rare occurrence 
8 var. schizocalyx. — With hesitation I refer to this species a form 
collected by Mr. Lydgate in Hamakua, E. Maui at an elevation of 
3000—4000 ft. Leaves as above. The short peduncle (1‘) and calyx 
