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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
Cyrtandra Grayana linearifolia Rock n. var. 
A tall shrub of palm-like habit; stems stout, covered with large circular 
leaf-scars; leaves in whorls of six, linear-lanceolate, 16-20 cm. long including 
the 2 cm. long petiole gradually merging into them, 1.5 cm. wide, thick, 
densely brown-tomentose underneath, dark green above, acuminate at both 
ends; inflorescence on the stem near the ground and on exposed rootlets; 
flowers arranged in a compound cyme, about 7 mm., bracts ovate-elliptical, 
acute, these and the whole inflorescence densely brown tomentose; pedicels 
of very variable length; calyx divided to near the base into linear, acute 
lobes; corolla tube narrow, ampliate at the throat, the lobes broad and 
spreading, densely hirsute underneath ; ovary linear-oblong, the style short, 
glabrous; stigma tic lobes broad and thick. 
Maui: West Maui, Honokawai gulch in dense forest, flowering Aug. 
1910, Rock and Hammond no. 8201 (type), in herb. College of Hawaii. 
The plant here described is almost worthy of specific rank and would 
perhaps be classed as such by less conservative systematists. The leaves 
are exceedingly narrow, and the remarkable part is that the flowers are 
borne at the base of the stem and on exposed rootlets instead of being axil- 
lary. No writer on Hawaiian plants had heretofore brought out the facts 
regarding the location of the inflorescence in some of our Cyrtandreae. 
There are a number of species in these islands that bear the flowers on ex- 
posed roots and along the stem, especially near the ground. Often the 
writer passed a Cyrtandra which at first glance seemed to be without flower 
or fruit, which usually occur in the axils of the upper leaves; but on exami- 
nation they were found to be concealed by foliage and ferns near the ground, 
often absolutely hidden from sight. 
Cyrtandra Grayana latifolia Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isl. 331. 1888 
A shrub 3 m. high ; leaves quaternate, obovate-oblong, acute to acuminate 
at both ends, 25-30 cm. long including the petiole, up to 10 cm. wide {teste 
Hillebr.); petioles of variable length up to 6.5 cm., thick-chartaceous, 
hirtellous above, densely brown-tomentose beneath, subentire to denticulate; 
inflorescence a cyme, the flowers less numerous; calyx-lobes ovate to linear, 
obtuse, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, 3-nerved; corolla hairy; ovary 
glabrous; style long, the lobes thin and of the width of the style. 
Maui: West and East Maui, Hillebrand in herb. Berlin, and part of 
type in herb. College of Hawaii. 
MoLOKAi: Mapulehu Mts. and Valley in dense forest along Wailau 
Trail, 3,000 feet elevation, flowering March 1910, Rock no. 1033.5; same 
locality, May 6, 1915, Rock no. 12575, in herb. College of Hawaii. 
Lanai: At the head of Mahana Valley, flowering Aug. 2, 1910, Rock 
no. 8128, in herb. College of Hawaii. 
Var. latifolia differs from the species in the larger and broader leaves, 
few (2-5) -flowered cyme, and quaternate leaves. It has not been recorded 
previously from Molokai. The plants from Molokai have a tendency to 
