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to fourteen inches long, three to four inches wide, thin, glab- 

 rous, light green and shining above, paler beneath, serrulate, 

 acute, narrowing below into a stout petiole, veins prominent 

 on both sides, the midrib raised on the upper side, flat and 

 broad on the lower side; petioles one to two inches long; in- 

 florescence somewhat pubescent with short, brownish hairs; 

 flowers mostly in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles, several flowered; calyx somewhat 

 campanulate, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, much shorter than 

 the tube; corolla nearly two inches in length, slender, curved, 

 purple; staminal column glabrous; berry yellow, obovate, 

 nearly three-fourths of an inch in length, with a diameter of 

 nearly a half inch, crowned by the persistent style; seeds 

 brown, very glossy. 



The type is No. 2691, collected in wet woods near the 

 Wahiawa river, Kauai, at elevations of 2,500 to 3,000 feet. It 

 is always found back in the forest, never in open places, and 

 is rather common. There is a possibility that it may be the 

 same as Cyanea recta (Wawra) Hillebrand, but does not quite 

 agree with the description of that species. Nearly all of my 

 specimens were in fruit, but several had unopened flowers, 

 one of which is shown in the plate, and a few were found which 

 had old, withered flowers attached The fruit is larger than 

 that of any other Cyanea which I have seen. 



To this species is also referred No. 2494 of which a few 

 specimens were collected on the ridge west of the Hanapepe 

 river. They are in neither flower or fruit, but merely have 

 undeveloped buds. 



DELISSEA Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 457, pi. 76-78. 

 1830. 



Delissea rhytidosperma Mann, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 180. 1867. 

 Delissea kealiae Wawra, Flora (II) 31: 10. 1873. 



It is possible that Wawra's species is distinct from Mann's 

 and in that case my specimens are not D. rhytidosperrna, but D. 

 kealiae, for they were collected on the east side of the Hana- 

 pepe river in wet woods near the source of the Wahiawa, not 

 many miles from the place where Wawra collected his type. 

 Mann's type, on the contrary, came from the "mountains 

 above Waimea, Kauai," in what is practically a different floral 

 area, neither did I see this same plant above Waimea. 



July to October (2487). 



