CYRTANDREAE HAWAIIENSES 
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The writer collected this species at the summit ridge of Molokai overiooking 
the cliffs of Pelekunu Valley. It grows on moss-covered tree trunks and 
on tree ferns together with Viola robusta, and occasionally grows quite tall 
and has straight ascending branches. It is related to C. Grayana but differs 
from it in the single flowers (rarely three), and the peculiar linear truncate 
leaves which are on petioles of only a few millimeters. With its dark green 
leaves which are usually convex with the margins rolled downward, and 
its straight ascending branches, it presents a rather peculiar aspect in the 
somber rain forest of the heights of Pelekunu. The writer found it also 
growing at the head of Waikolu Valley at an elevation of 3000 feet; there 
it was a sparingly branching shrub with horizontal and slightly ascending 
branches. The species is peculiar to the heights of Molokai. 
The specimen in the Gray Herbarium, ex coll. Hillebrand, is labeled 
Cyrtandra arborescens sp. n.; the specimen is 3-flowered immediately below 
the uppermost leaf whorl. 
Cyrtandra Grayana Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isl. 330. 1888 
Cyrtandra kamoloensis Lev. in Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 10: 123. 1912. 
A shrub 2.5-3.5 m. high; leaves in whorls of four to six, narrow, spathu- 
late, 25-30 cm. long, including the long petiole merging into them, 3.5 cm. 
wide near the apex, shortly acuminate, almost entire, thick-chartaceous, 
papillose above, thickly tomentose beneath with appressed yellow hairs; 
flowers 8-12 in an irregular corymbose cyme, the common peduncle 12-24 
mm.; pedicels 18 mm., the broadly lanceolate bracts 12-14 mm., calyx 
parted to near the base into five oblong, obtuse lobes, the whole calyx thickly 
covered with a brown-fulvous tomentum; corolla hairy, with spreading lobes; 
ovary glabrous; berry broadly ovate, acute, little longer than the calyx. 
Maui: Mauna Eeke, 5,000 feet, Hillebrand in herb. Berlin and Gray 
Herbarium, part of type in herb. College of Hawaii, without date or number; 
Puukukui, upper forest, flowering, A. S. Hitchcock no. 14748, in U. S. 
National Herbarium. 
Molokai: Kamolo, June, 1910, Faurie no. 646, in herb. Leveille. 
The writer has not collected this species* proper but has collected several 
varieties of it on West Maui and Molokai. Prof. A. S. Hitchcock of W^ash- 
ington re-collected the typical species on Mt. Puukukui, the highest peak 
on West Maui. Hillebrand's specimens came from Mauna Eeke, the 
second highest peak of West Maui. These two mountains are not far apart, 
but the dense jungle makes it exceedingly difficult to pass from one to the 
other. Clarke's C. Grayi is not identical with C. Grayana but is interme- 
diate between the latter and C. lysiosepala. It differs from the former in 
the thinner opposite leaves and membranous acute sepals. 
* Collected since by the writer on Mt. Eeke, September, 191 8. 
