Cyanea.| LOBELIACEAE, 263 
tube 4” long, the narrow lanceolate acute lobes as long or shorter, 
3—4". Corolla faintly pubescent, with muricate lobes. Filaments glab- 
rous, the anthers pubescent along the sutures. 
Hawaii! Kona (Lyd 
24. C. macrostegia, sp. ». — Trunk 6—12 ft. high, rather rough but 
unarmed. Leaves large as in OC. tritomantha, but the base gradually 
narrowing into a short ine of 1—2‘, pubescent underneath, when 
young, and papillose above, membranous. Peduncle 1—1'/2’, thick fleshy, 
racemose from the base, the pedicels 4—8”; bracts broad oblong, 18—24”; 
bractlets 6, Calyx smooth and glabrate, its tube obconical, 6 long, the 
oblong lobes several times as long, 15—24” long and 2—3” broad, erect, 
obtuse or emarginate, herbaceous, many-nerved. Corolla suberect, ay 30" 
long and 4“ wide, at first pubescent along the linear lobes, 
glabrate, fleshy, dark purplish-blue, deeply slit at se back, om Hiei 
slits extending to the middle and the anterior ones nearly as far, Stami- 
nal column glabrous, purple. Berry large ovoid, 10 X 8", yellow, 
crowned by the long ‘ea Seeds shining. 
W. ui! Kaanapali, cate ber Waihee, ia og wooded wpe . The flowers are 
hidden yesh the long crowded b cine lobes, which always retain a large 
quantity of wa ose and eeksike debris, in consequence of which the Pools corollas are apt 
to peri t and intact ones are rare. 
ar. — Calycine lobes 9—12". Corolla pubescent. Adult leaves 
pubescent underneath, 
E. and W. Maui! 
25. C. atra, sp. n. — Trunk 4—6 ft. high, tuberculate in the upper 
rtion. Leaves lic tolats. 16—20' X 3—4’, gradually tapering into a 
thick muricate petiole of 2 21/9! , crenulate, coriaceous, with prominent 
e low 
tomentum. Peduncle very short and thick, 4—6-flowered; the pedicels 
6“; bracts only 2—3”; bractlets 1'/2’. Calyx dark, ee the cylindrical 
tabe S*, the thick oblong and obtuse or emarginat e lobes 1-nerved, of 
variable length, 3—8“. Corolla suberect, 2'/2—3‘ long, 3--4" wide, dark 
purple, almost black, hirsute with coarse hair, the lobes linear, the 
posterior ones as long as the tube. Stamina! column dark purple, the 
filaments and anthers hispid. Berry “we 8". Seeds pale yellow. 
W. Mani! back of Lahaina, Wailuku (3000— 
. C. Gibsonii, sp. n. — Trunk 3—5 ft. high, es Leaves broad 
asd or obovato-oblong, acute, generally rounded at the base, wavy, 
crenate or me fageatok membranous, pubescent but green underneath, 
12—16‘ x 4—6', on petioles of 3—5‘. Peduncle dark purple, thick fleshy, 
1—1'/, many- bites: the pedicels 8—10”, bracteolate above the base, 
the bracts narrow linear, 6—9”. Calyx dark purple, pubescent, the ob- 
