ARTICLE XIII. 



Description and Notices of new or rare Plants in the natural Orders LoheliacecB, 

 Campanulacece, Vacciniecs, Ericacece, collected in a Journey over the Continent 

 of North America, and during a Visit to the Sandrvich Islands, and Upper 

 California. By Thomas Nuttall. Read December 3, 1841. 



Order LOBELIACEtE. (Jussieu.) 

 Tribe I. Delisseace^, (Presl.) . 

 CLERMONTIA. (Gaudichaud.) 

 Clermontia *macrophjlla; arborescent; leaves very long, oblong, lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, glandulosely serrulate, attenuated with a rather long 

 petiole; beneath minutely pilose along the veins; peduncles stout, mostly 

 two-flowered, much longer than the lanceolate, acuminate bractes, about 

 the length of the petioles; tube of the calyx turbinate, about twice the length 

 of the connivent lobes; lobes of the corolla linear, the length of the calyx; 

 the upper segments connate. 



Hab. Oahu. A spreading tree about twelve feet high. The ripe fruit a rather solid .berry, 

 about the size of a small Siberian crab, of a bright orange, and frequently strung as necklaces and 

 chaplets by the natives of the Island. It is also said to be eaten by the birds. The leaf with the 

 petiole about eleven inches to a foot long; near two and a half inches wide. 



€YANEA. (Gaud.) 



Cyanea Grimesiana. — A tree or large shrub, about ten feet high, very lac- 

 tescent, sending out leaves chiefly at the extremities of the branches, which 

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