Cyrtandra. | GESNERIACEAE. 325 
in open or contracted cymes. Corollas and berries white in all Hawaiian 
species 
A large genus, spread over pens ay _ Polynesia from Sumatra to the eee 
group, canter able for its proneness to variation. The Hawaiian species are all shrt mae 
P 
island. The variations affect nearly every part of the plant, and branch out and inter- 
sik verges hegre in cig rn wars to such an extent that it is next 0 impossible to define 
e grouping of t 
ons is surrounded with h atmeniie and I have not been able to devise a sy stematic 
divisio which would not be vitiated by exceptions. The following classification, there- 
ore, does n m to m an approximative rend of th e relations 
of the different species, and it is to be hoped that furthe lorations, particularly on 
the two = m ands Ka awaii, will bring our know ew forms 
s uai and H 
which may throw more light on the complicated chain of transmutation which prevails 
n pak he 
Gnigx. persistent with fruit. 
ern nocalyces, villosae. — Calyx cleft to the middle or less into 
broad lobes or teeth. Leaves broad, generally rounded or cordate at the 
ae villous 
i eiohions. or eee eg with short obtuse teeth or lobes ; tomen- ; 
tum thick, yello Figg : 1. C, Kealiae. 
Calyx 1 terife + seninannts ate, with mostly ovate lob 
flowers linge feed bellate ; toment m pale cinereous - 
ochrace Group of C. cordifolia. 
Corolla seve, with equal lobes: 
Leaves c 2.0: pcan ay 
Leaves fitrats ; 5. C. erate 
Leaves rounded or contracted at the base . 3. 0 Pt 
eaves oblique, the base uneven-sid 4. ¢. iepalagatie. 
aves ¢ : . C. paritiifolia. 
eaves rounded or decuerent at. the bas . €. platyphylla, 
Schizocalyces, fulvae. — Calyx wae aplit re near ie base into ovate 
or lanceolate lobes. Flowers few, 1—3, rarely more in a corymbose cyme. 
Leaves mostly gpa ‘Tomentum fulvous or deep ferruginous. Group 
of C. Lesson 
Orolla erect, a large unequal lobes 
Calyx cra —— 5-fid with iMacuns _ leaves whorled 8. C. macrocalyz. 
Calyx parted to the base into lan 
Leaves ie a ag or ternate, broad neti app flowers 3 or 2 11. 
Leaves in whorls of 4—6: 
Gradually narrowing into the ea flowers many ‘ 12. €. Grayana. 
Truncate at the base; flow 9. C. procera. 
Corolla erect, constricted at the ea. ‘with email subequ: ual 
lobes ; calyx parted to the base-into ovate or lanceolate ; 
lobes; leaves opposite 13. C. Lessoniana. 
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Corolla slightly curved, with sina al lobes: 
Lea ordat 
C. lysiosepala. 
