Heller: plants of the Hawaiian islands. 887 



Cyrtandra degenerans (Wawra) 



Cyrtandra paludosa, var. degenerans Waavra, Flora (II) 30: 558. 



1872. 

 Cyrtandra longifolia, var. degenerans C. B. Clarke, DC. Monog. 



Phan. 5:277. 1883. 

 Cyrtandra latebrosa Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Is. 337. 1888. 



It appears that Hillebrand had also given this the manuscript 

 name of C paradoxa. He considered it sufficiently distinct for 

 specific rank, and this is made more probable by the fact that 

 it grows on Oahu, while C. longifolia has been found only on 

 Kauai. 



Cyrtandra gayana n. sp. (Plate LIX.) 



A small tree, ten feet high; trunk usually four inches in di- 

 ameter, bark gray; top rounded; secondary branches slender, 

 rough, somewhat quadrangular, studded with the scars of fallen 

 leaves; leaves opposite, confined to the ends of the branches, 

 lanceolate, tapering at both ends, two to three inches long, one- 

 half to three-fourths of an inch wide, entire, bright green above, 

 with impressed midrib and veins, brown beneath, and sparingly 

 pubescent on the prominent, dark midrib and veins; petioles a 

 half inch in length; flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves; 

 peduncles an inch or less in length, subtended by small, linear, 

 deciduous bracts; calyx a half inch in length, somewhat pu- 

 bescent, thin, almost cylindrical, peaked in the bud, unequally 

 five-toothed, deciduous from the fruit; corolla white, little ex- 

 serted, slender, moderately curved, not quite an inch in length, 

 not strongly bilabiate, the lobes short; stamens two, anthers 

 broad and connected at their tips, as in the genus; style short, 

 two-lobed; fruit white, ovate oblong, five lines in length, tipped 

 with the persistent style. 



The type is No. 2495, which was collected on the ridge west 

 of the Hanapepe river, Kauai, at an elevation of 3000 feet. It 

 also occurs on the plateau above Waimea, at 4000 feet eleva- 

 tion. Named in honor of Mr. Francis Gay, of Makaweli, 

 Kauai, to whom I am much indebted for hospitalities shown to 

 me while on the island of Kauai. It belongs to the group of 

 which C. paludosa is the type. From that species it differs in 

 its arborescent habit, narrower, entire leaves, which are brown 

 underneath, instead of pale, and by its smaller flowers and 

 fruit. There is a possibility that it may be Cyrtandra palu- 

 dosa, var. arborescens Wawra, Flora (II) 30:558, which is de- 

 scribed as "frutex pyramidalis densissimus, foliis ellipticis in 

 petiolum longe attenuatis integris. Folia subcoriacea glabra, 



