New Hawaiian Plants—VII 
By CHarzEs N. Forbes. 
In classifying and incorporating the Hawaiian botanical material 
at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Herbarium, the plants on which 
the present paper is based seemed to be sufficiently distinct to be 
described as new species. With the exception of the Hibiscadeiphus, 
which was collected many years ago by Dr. Wm. Hillebrand and 
sent by him to Horace Mann, all of these species have been coil- 
lected by the author since 1908. 
Hibiscadelphus bombycinus, sp. nov. 
PLATE III. 
Tree or shrub? Leaves reniform or somewhat orbicular in outline, 
obscurely five lobed with the lobes repand above, deeply cordate with the 
lobes overlapping at the base, rounded at the apex, stellate pubescent on 
both faces, especially below, 7-8.7 cm. long, 6.5-8.2 cm. wide; petioles pube- 
scent, 4.2-5.2 cm. long. Flowers single, on pedicels of 2.1-3 cm. in length. 
Involucral brats strap-shaped, rounded at the apex, 9 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 
wide, stellate pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 6-toothed, or lobed, stellate 
pubescent on the outside, 1.2 cm. high. Corolla slightly curved, hardly 
opening, densely stellate pubescent, the nerves prominent, 3.4 cm. long. 
Staminal column scarcely exserted. Capsules woody, either globular and 
2.9 cm. high, or obovoid and 3.2 cm. high, dense stellate hirsute on the 
outside. Seed covered with yellowish hair. 
Type in the B. P. B. M. Herbarium, collected at Kawaihae-uka, 
(inland) Hawaii, T. H., by Wm. Hillebrand, not numbered; formerly in the 
Mann and Brigham Herbarium. 
This species is closely related to H. hualalaiensis Rock, but 
differs in the strap-shaped involucral bracts, and smaller leaves. 
The type sheet bears a label in Hillebrand’s handwriting, re- 
ferring the specimen to “Hibiscus section Bombycina,” and also two 
envelopes containing capsules. Most of these capsules resemble 
those of H. hualalaiensis Rock, but one in better condition than the 
others is similar to those of H. Giffardianus Rock. Hillebrand 
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