Cyrtandra. | GESNERIACEAE. 333 
1-2‘, the neainae’ 3—6"; bracts ovate- lanceolate, 3—1“. Calyx gray- 
tomentose, 2'/2—4", divi dea to the middle into 5 triangular or lanceolate 
lobes. Corolla small, 4—6”, straight tubular, widening below, with nearly 
equal lobes, tomentose. Ovary and style pubescent. sia ry ovoid, 7--8” 
ong. — Hook. & Arn. |. c. — Gray, |. ¢. p. 352. — Aa aM 
Oahu! J e and western half of the main range. To be calstinguished from 
the preceding species chiefly by the small corolla and gray tomentum 
18. C. laxiflora, Mann, Enum. no. 317. — Leaves shaped as in C, Garno- 
tiana, thin membranous, green on both faces, shortly hairy above, pele 
pubescent underneath. Flowers many in a compound cyme or subu 
bellate on long pedicels of 6” or more, the common peduncle 1—3!/2’, 
hirsuto-tomentose as well as calyx and corolla, Calyx 4—6", divided to 
near the base into lanceolate lobes, reflected when with fruit. Corolla 
6—10", straight, tubular, with short round lobes. Berry ovoid, 6” long, 
pubescent or glabrate. 
Oahu! with the last species. 
19. C. Macraei, Gray, I. c. p. 352. — A tall spreading shrub, 8—10 ft. 
high, the branches subherbaceous, angular, and canescent with a hoary 
or pruinose (waxy) uve gus as is also the cyme. Leaves opposite, 
large, broad ovate, 5—8‘ X 3—6’, on petioles of 2—4’, acuminate, dentate, 
rounded at the base, but not anfreqn uently decurrent into the petiole for a 
short distance, thin membranous, glabrate above, canescent underneath 
with a faint pubescence. Flowers very numerous, 10—20, in a short 
contracted aeaase cyme, on a common n peduncle of tig the pedicels 
longer, 4—6 s small, subulate. Calyx pru uinose, parted to near 
the base into: narrow eRe or subulate lobes, about ve eee length of 
the corolla. Corolla 4—6", pruinose, broad tubular : and straight, widening 
at the throat, with small lobes, of thin texture. Ovary pruinose, soon 
glabrate. Style art pide below the middle. Berry 4—5”. 
Oahu! eastern division of the main range, Niu, Wailupe. The majority of the flowers 
are sterile. 
20. C. gracilis, s _.. Habit of the preceding species, the — 
branches more e slender ca intend pruinose, soon glabrate, as is the cym 
n th faces, but paler enero 
and faintly wabercioxe * 
elliptico-oblong, 4—6' > 
serrulate, — contracting and shortly decurrent. 
on a common peduncle of * s—1', 
the slender pédions vege andes 
linear-lanceolate, 6—3‘’. Calyx Ho generally longer 
8—15”, split to the base ot linear lobes. Corolla pruinose in the bud, 
slightly puberulous, straight, about 12’, ampliate at the throat. Ovary 
