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is hirsute with reddish hairs which stand at right angles to the pedicels. 
The leaf, which is oblong-lanceolate and acuminate at both ends, has the 
margin densely covered with reddish hairs as are the midrib and veins; the 
petiole is not tomentose but almost hirsute. The plants referred by Wawra 
to C. honolulensis seem certainly distinct from C. Pickeringii A. Gray and 
must be retained as a good species instead of as a variety of C. Pickeringii. 
The status of all these species is then as follows : 
Cyrtandra Pickeringii A. Gray, type in Gray Herbarium, fragmentary. 
Cyrtandra Pickeringii Hillebrand (not A. Gray) apparently corresponds 
to C. Hillehrandii C. B. Clarke, no. 329 (type) in Kew Herbarium. 
Cyrtandra Oliveri Rock, identical with C. Hillehrandii Oliver, the latter 
being a synonym. 
Cyrtandra honolulensis Wawra is a good species, and the combination 
of C, Pickeringii honolulensis Rock must be considered a synonym. 
It is best merely to give these notes, which may be checked up by future 
workers or by the one so fortunate as to have the opportunity to examine 
Clarke's type of C. Hillehrandii in the Kew Herbarium. 
Oliver's C. Hillehrandii (= C. Oliveri Rock) has the calycine lobes 
divided to the base, while Clarke's C. Hillehrandii has the lobes divided to 
the middle only; as the latter is the only one in Hillebrand's collection with 
such calycine lobes, it must be taken for grante4 that it is C. Hillehrandii 
C. B. Clarke. Hillebrand himself identified the particular specimen as 
C. Pickeringii A. Gray; however, since that identification is erroneous, as 
can be seen on comparison with the type of C Pickeringii, there remain only 
two suggestions : that it is either an undescribed species, or it is identical 
with C. Hillehrandii C. B. Clarke. The latter is more probable, and this 
belief is strengthened by the fact that Drake Del Castillo refers to C. Hille- 
hrandii C. B. Clarke as a synonym of C. Pickeringii A. Gray. 
Cyrtandra kohalae Rock n. sp. 
A small shrub, the stems and branches quadrangular, hirsute in the 
upper portion with dark ferruginous hairs; leaves oblong to obovate- 
oblong, acuminate at the apex, acute and decurrent at the base, the margins 
irregularly serrate to denticulate, scatteringly pubescent with whitish, 
3-5-celled hairlets which disappear with age, velvety underneath with dark 
brown tomentum, especially along the midrib and veins, 15-20 cm. long, 
5-9 cm. wide, on petioles of 3.5-5 cm.; inflorescence in the upper axils of 
the leaves; peduncle 1.5-2.5 cm. long, bearing either one single flower and 
without a pedicel or bearing six flowers on pedicels of variable length, 
brownish-hirsute as are the pedicels; bracts linear-lanceolate, about 2.5 
cm. in length; pedicels 5-30 mm.; calyx tube exceedingly short, barely 4 
mm.; the lobes filiform to subulate or linear, and long-acuminate, about 2 
cm. in length, 1-2 mm. broad; corolla small, about 12 mm. long, tubular and 
slightly curved, glabrous to hirtulose outside as are the reflected lobes; 
ovary glabrous as is the articulate style; fruit subglobose to ovate, not 
exceeding the calycine lobes. 
