MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



bacca vix \ pollicem longa; nervis secundariis confertis." 

 Wawra's specimen's were collected on Kauai, but no locality is 

 mentioned. The name arborecens, however, is antedated by C. 

 arborecens Blume, which would make my name valid, even if 

 my plants are the same as Wawra's. 



Cyrtandra grandiflora Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 447 pi. 55. 

 1830. 



A few specimens were collected at the head of Kalihi valley, 

 Oahu. In ail cases noticed, the large white flowers were borne 

 on the branches below the leaves. The bracts in this species 

 are large and foliaceous. The leaves are large, thin, ovate- 

 oblong, on long petioles. Found only on Oahu. 



May 20 (2336). 



Cyrtandra kalichii Wawra, Flora (II) 30: 564. 1872. 



Cyrtandra tristis Hillebr. in C. B. Clarke, DC. Monog. Phan. 

 5:227. 1883. 



This odd-looking species was collected at the type locality, 

 "Oahu, felsschluchten des Kalichithals. " It is a shrub, several 

 feet high, simple, or with a few ascending branches. The 

 leaves are often fifteen inches in length, obovate or oblong, 

 with broadly winged petioles which are clasping or united at 

 the base. The whole plant is more or less pubescent with 

 tawny hairs. Under this species Hillebrand, Fl. Haw. Is. 334, 

 cites "C. tristis, Hbd. in herb." C. B. Clarke, as cited above, 

 has described it for Hillebrand, quoting "Hillebrand ms." 



May 20 (2337). 



Cyrtanda kauaiensis Wawra, Flora (II) 30: 566. 1872. 



Found in a gulch above Waimea, Kauai, between the forks 

 of the Waimea river, at an elevation of about 2000 feet. It is a 

 shrub, with few and slender branches, foliose only at the ends, 

 and somewhat quadrangular. It was rare, as only one or two 

 bushes were seen. 



September 30 (2829); original localitj^, "Kauai, Walder von 

 Halemanu." 



Cjrtandra kealiae Wawra, Flora (II) 30: 565. 1872. 



Not uncommon on the ridges along the Wahiawa river, Kauai, 

 and also found on the ridges west of the Hanapepe river, at 

 elevations of 2500 to 3000 feet. A freely branching bush, about 

 five feet high, the young branches, inflorescence, and under 

 sides of the leaves tomentose with bright yellow hairs; fruit 

 enclosed in the densely hairy calyx. 



July to August (2543); original locality, "Kauai, um Kealia." 



