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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
and fruiting February 9, 191 8, Rock no. 13079 (type), in herb. College of 
Hawaii. 
This variety differs considerably from the species; mainly in the smaller 
leaves and dense agglomerate inflorescence which is confined to the upper 
leaf axils; the flowers are much smaller, as are the fruits. 
Cyrtandra Lydgatei Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isl. 335. 1888 
A small tree 4-6.5 m. high, branches villous with pale ochraceous hairs; 
leaves opposite, thin, flaccid, green on both sides, sparingly hispid with 
multicellular hairs above, puberulous along rib and nerves beneath, pubes- 
cent towards the base, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 10 to 22 cm. long, 
6-14 cm. wide, shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded or cuneate-decur- 
rent, somewhat uneven-sided, at the base; petiole not margined, 3-10 cm. 
long; flowers two to seven, subumbellately arranged on a peduncle of 1.5 
cm., the pedicels i-i. 5 cm.; bracts narrow-lanceolate, thin, 6-8 mm.; calyx 
green, hirsute, cylindrical, divided to near the base into linear-acute to 
spathulate lobes; corolla slightly exserted, hirsute, 12-14 mm., the tube 
narrow, curved, the lobes large, spreading; ovary glabrous, with broadly 
lamellate style; fruit broad, ovoid, 15 mm. long. 
MoLOKAi: In deep ravines of Kalae and Mapulehu, Lydgate, in herb. 
Berlin and Gray Herbarium; Mapulehu Valley, fruiting April 1910, Rock, 
in herb. College of Hawaii ; Halawa Valley, fruiting April 1910, Rock, in herb. 
College of Hawaii; Kalae, in deep gulches, flowering May 1918, Rock and 
Dunbar no. 14064, in herb. College of Hawaii. 
Maui: Gulch of Honokawai, Kaanapali, West Maui, Aug. 1870, Hille- 
brand, in herb. Berlin and Gray Herbarium, and part of type in herb. 
College of Hawaii; Honomanu gulch, northeastern slope of Haleakala, 
East Maui, flowering May 191 1, Rock, in herb. College of Hawaii. 
The specimens from Maui, especially East Maui, have the calyx lobes 
decidedly spathulate, while those from Molokai have the calycine lobes 
linear-lanceolate, acute. The leaves are somewhat larger than the dimen^ 
sions given by Hillebrand. A distinct species which comes close to C. lysio- 
sepala, save that the calyx lobes are not reflexed and the calyx remains 
cylindrical in shape, the leaves are very much larger, and the inflorescence 
is up to 7-flowered, subumbellate. 
College of Hawaii, HoNOLtT.u. 
