Cyrtandra. | ; GESNERIACEAE. 327 
side and outside, coriaceous, ovoid or almost globose, with 5 short teeth 
or oblong obtuse lobes of about 3/4 of its length. Corolla straight, 10—12”, 
the tube broad, not ampliate above, with short ovate nearly — lobes, 
villous outside and often inside. Ovary glabrate; style pubescen 
short ovoid, 6” long, invested by the closed calyx which at oS ili 
eon = 
Kealia (Wawra), Waimea (Kn.). The interior of the on which Wawra 
Se penis asi a thick tomentum, is pabuee in Knudsen’s specimen 
2. C. cordifolia, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 446, tab. 56. — A shrub, 
5—8 ft. high, freely branching from the base, the young shoots villous 
with pale ochraceous hair, as is the ie hiemnna: Leaves opposite, ovate 
or suborbicular, with a cordate base, shortly acuminate, abd dentate 
or seeiage , membranous, hispid on ay upper, villous on the lower face, 
B- 8X be 8‘, on petioles of 2—6'. Peduncles 1—2’, ag ieabhadisdeds 
several-flowered, the flowers (4— 10) ¢ on pedicels of 7—12‘'. Bracts folia- 
ceous, broad oblanceolate, !/2—1‘, sometimes petiolate. Calyx membranous, 
whitish, villous inside and outside, cup-shaped, 6“ high, and evenly 5-fid 
to the middle or beyond into broadly ovate or triangular lobes, rotately 
expanded when in ee with an aperture of 8--12". Corolla villous, 
broad tubular, straight, 7--10‘’ long and 4—5 “ broad, not ampliate above, 
the short lobes cee nearly equal, one emarginate. Ovary and style 
villous, the ier very short, articulate below the Spee ead me 
ovoid. — DC. Prod. ee 284, — Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. V, — Hoo 
Oahu! comm on the main range; E. Maui! The sinus at the base of the leaf, 
although cua narrow and deep, is sometimes closed below the insertion of the petiole. 
3. C. Pickeringii, Gray, in. Proc. Am. Ac. V, 350. — Size and habit 
as in no. 2. Leaves suborbicular or ovato- or broad nigdes. oblong, 
. 5—7' X 3—4', on petioles of 2—3’, shortly acuminate, dentate, sometimes 
contracting at the base, even shortly decurrent, i 
hispid above, ds -tomentose or pale-glabrate underneath. Pedun 
long, 2- or subcymosely 5—6-flowered, the pedicels 7--9". Bracts saat 
late, 4—5". Ca chats and corolla as in no. 2, but the lobes of the former 
though open, not expanded in fruit. Ovary villous or gunners Style 
2—3", villous. — C. Honolulensis, Wawra, in clin 1872, p. 
-decurrent and Tcouiike 
leaves oce the same plant. . 
tum is shorter; sometimes even the leaves and bin lobes are “nearly glabrate. Gray 
ad only a a fragmentary specimen with na sbi aves at his asipieed, which ac- 
counts for the apparent discrepancy in the descri ate 
8 var. crassifolia. -- Leaves thick coriaceous, with strong ribs and veins, 
broad ovate to orbicular, rather fulvo-tomentose or villous underneath. 
Flowers few, 1, 2 or 3, their pedicels longer, 12”. 
High ridge of Niu, Oahu! 
