332 GESNERIACEAE. [Cyrtandra. 
the calyx. — Different from the plant referred to by Mann under C. Les- 
soniand, 
Oahu! from Nuwanu to Palolo. 
15. C. Kauaiensis, Wawra, l. c. p. 566. — «Leaves and tomentum as in 
C. Lessoniana. Flowers solitary on thick recurved peduncle which are 
of the same length as the petioles (1‘) and carry near the base two 
minute filiform bracts. Calyx 1‘ long, of 5 ne green and patent 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate sepals which contract at the base into a short 
tomentose stipes. Corolla slightly exserted, somewhat pubescent, curved 
and gradually ampliate, the lobes '/3 as long as the tube, spreading, ovate, 
acute. Ovary glabrous. Berry oblong, 6.» 
Kauai, woods of Halemanu. Not seen by me. 
16. C. triflora, Gand. 1. ¢. p. 447, tab. 52. — Branches and inflor. glabrate 
or faintly ferrugino-pubescent. Leaves Me thick Renee 8 ellip- 
tico-oblong or lanceolate, 3—6' > 11/1—34, petioles of 1—2‘, evenly 
acuminate at both ends, denticulate, shanties above, pee tomentose 
underneath or glabrate and pale, excepting the prominent ribs and veins. 
Flowers 
a 
Corolla 6—9", straight tubular, contracted below the short nearly equal 
* lobes, aie: ary sooty. style caro below the stigma. Berry 
slender ovoid, 6—8" long. — DC. 1. c. p. 284. — Gray, 1. c. p. 351. 
Seattering over the wh es island of Oa ae but connected by intermediate forms 
with the next species. Very inappropriately named. 
8 var. grandifolia. — Leaves large ovate to suborbicular, 7—8‘ < 4—5’. 
ymes 4--5‘ long, with 20—30 flowers. 
Oahu! Waialua and Waipio. 
~ var. ambigua. — Calyx '/2—?/3 the length of the corolla, cylindrical, 
shortly and unevenly divided to less than the middle into lanceolate acute 
lobes or teeth, peaked in the bud and splitting laterally (as in C. paludosa)- 
os, leaves, etc. as i 
Oa 
17. C, Garnotiana, Gawd. I. ¢. p. 447, tab. 53. — A shrub, 6—12 ft. high, 
the spreading branches and inflor. canescent with short velvety pieniontes 
Leaves opposite, thin chartaceous, faintly puberulous above, gray-to 
or glabrate and pale underneath, suborbicular, ovate or elliptico- ee 
5—i' K 2-—4', on petioles of 1— 3‘, shortly acuminate, denticulate of 
serrulate, rounded or contracting at the base. Flowers numerous, 5—29, 
in a compound corymbose cyme of 2—4' in length, the common peduncle 
