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scription, which is here copied from C. B. Clarke, the species belongs 
undoubtedly to this section. Asa Gray's specimen referred by him to 
Cyrtandra triflora is a variety of C. platyphylla and must be referred to the 
writer's C. platyphylla parviflora. The drawing in the Atlas (Bot. Voy. 
Uranie) is too schematic to permit identification. 
Cyrtandra Giffardii Rock n. sp. 
A small, soft-wooded tree 5 m. in height, with numerous tortuose thin 
branches, the latter quadrangular and pubescent near their apices with dark 
blackish-brown hairs; leaves elliptical or obovate, chartaceous, dark green, 
acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, with denticulate margin, subglabrate 
above or with single scattered hairs, the midrib and veins prominent under- 
neath, and covered with dark brown hair, 6-8 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm. wide, 
on dark brown pubescent petioles of 2-2.5 cm.; inflorescence a three-to 
four- or five-flowered cyme, covered with a dark brown tomentum through- 
out; peduncle 2-3.5 cm. long, slender; pedicels 2-3 cm. long, slender, the 
bracts linear-lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long; calyx tube short, 2-3 mm., the linear 
acuminate lobes 4-5 mm., hairy outside, glabrate inside; corolla small, 12 
mm. long, constricted at the throat, straight, hirtulose; berry small, globose 
to ovate. 
Hawaii: Forests near the Volcano House, especially Kalauilehua, 
fruiting July, 1911 , Rock no. 10337 in herb. College of Hawaii ; same locality, 
flowering January, 1918, W. M. Giffard (type) no. 13096 in herb. College 
of Hawaii. 
A very distinct species probably distantly related to Cyrtandra poly- 
antha; it is a small tree fifteen feet or so in height and is much branched 
with numerous small tortuose branchlets. It is named for Mr. W. M. 
Giffard who collected flowering material of this plant. 
Cyrtandra Garnotiana Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie 447, t. 53. 1826 
Cyrtandra Carnotiana G. Don. Gen. Syst. 4: 661. 1838. 
Cyrtandra Vaniotii Lev. Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 10: 155. 1912. 
Branches obscurely triangular, the young shoots canescent-tomentose; 
leaves opposite, subequal, up to 18 cm. long, 10 cm. broad, acute, attenuate 
or rounded at the base, chartaceous, puberulous above, gray-tomentose 
and pale underneath, the margin denticulate or serrulate; cyme 5-10 cm. 
long, densely but shortly canescent-tomentose, 5-20-flowered ; common 
peduncle 2.5-5 cm., stout, bracteate at the apex, the bracts ovate-acute, 
clasping at the base, i cm.; pedicels 1.5 cm.; calyx gray-tomentose, 8 mm. 
long, divided to the middle into five triangular-oblong lobes; corolla small, 
8-16 mm., straight, tubular, widening below, with nearly equal lobes; ovary 
and style pubescent; berry ovoid, 14-16 mm. long, acute. 
Oahu: Gaudichaud in Gray Herbarium; U. S. Explor. Exped. in Gray 
Herbarium; Mann and Brigham no. 126 in Gray Herbarium, no. 77 in 
Cornell Herbarium; Hillebrand, western part of the island, in herb. 
Berlin; Hillebrand, Wahiawa, in herb. College of Hawaii; R. S. Hosmer, 
