Cyrtandra.} GESNERIACEAE. 337 
1—2”, bearing 5—8 flowers on pedicels of 6—12“. Berry small ovoid, 
obtuse, 6" or less. — Wawra, l. ¢., and including pastors his var. con-. 
peers and a aoe 
Ka Kealia and Wa (Kn.). Co poeeeaanige” vag the closely erowded inflor. 
acts settle pase of s ie yor fallen leaves; stem sparingly branching or eat 
e var. subherbacea. — Glabrate. ves eves ovate, rounded at the 
base. sinuato-dentate. Peduncles 6—12”, the pedicels as long or longer. 
3 ys 
Plateau of Waialeale, Kauai. 
€ var. integrifolia. — Leaves elongate, w with entire margins, 7—9‘ x 
2—21/2', on partly marginate petioles of Be ; eee but jorcigtanus 
scene eure stad the veins. Inflor. and fruit as in 
i! Ko Cauai!l W mirc ipacns ). Here we paral alee s var. longifolia 
and eitpelverate pam Hanalei, Kaua 
28. C. latebrosa, sp. n. — Stem straight, undivided, 6—12 ft. high, with 
a thick glutinous sap, the young shoots and inflor. dark ferruginous with 
a thick squamaceous tomentum. Leaves verticillate, 3—5 in a whorl, 
narrow oblanceolate, 6—12‘ long, including a rather long margined petiole 
into which they aad contract, and 1—2‘ broad, acute, entire or shortly 
dentate, chartaceous, prominently sa ate brownish underneath with 
a short and soft tomentum, or glabrate. Peduncle very short, 1—4‘ 
bearing 1—5 mostly drooping flowers on pedicels scarcely eee ‘bani 
the ayes Bracts linear - lances late, hs long. cok msahagtiny 
ani Naor which the corolla protrudes, the ae top secnniniig entire 
or splitting into 5 short teeth, but occasionally divided to the middle 
5 linear lobes. Corolla slightly exserted and villous when the wily is 
lobed, but included and almost glabrate when the same is fusiform, curved 
with large spreading limb, bilabiate, the upper lip deeply emarginate, the 
lower 3-lobed, 4—5” long. Style twice as long as the glabrous ovary, 
with rounded lobes. Berry olive-shaped, 13” long. — C. paludosa, var. 7, 
ch, apa Wawra, I. c. p. 558. 
d dark ravines of Kalihi and Manoa, edict o salon Arai Molo — send 
singular Hes of the calyx, attributed by Wawra to a eration, i = Simp y 
normal bud-s tat te in the present group, whieh here aaaee permanent pro robably for asi 
ce and to t 
‘ked 
only. one flower, while the lon ger tude: 
second form. The plants she Molokai perfectly agree wi 
that the leaves are rather glabrate. j 
Hillebrand, Flora of the asec Islands. 
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