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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
tinctly oblong and do not taper towards the base from the middle of the 
leaf but from the lower third; they are 60-70 cm. long and about 15 cm. 
wide, and puberulous on both faces, the petiole none. Unfortunately the 
plant was neither in flower nor in fruit. The leaf specimens were collected 
in April, 1909, in Halawa Valley; they are deposited in the College of 
Hawaii Herbarium and bear the number 13101. There is no doubt that 
these specimens represent an undescribed species of the section Cylindro- 
calyces as can be judged by the habit of the plant. 
Cyrtandra paludosa brevicalyx Hillebr. forma linearis Rock, n. f. 
Cyrtandra paludosa var. filipes Hillebr. ms. in Gray Herbarium. 
A shrub; branches terete, glabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate, elliptical, 
7-1 1 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, acuminate at both ends, the margin wavy- 
crenate, chartaceous, pale green and glabrous on both sides; petioles 2-3.5 
cm.; peduncle short, 2-5 mm., bearing single flowers on pedicels of 2.5-3 
cm. ; fruit elliptical-fusiform. 
Oahu: Kaala Mts., Hillebrand, in Gray Herbarium; eastern range 
(Kaala) Schofield Barracks, flowering July 11, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 
14027 in U. S. National Herbarium and clastotype in College of Hawaii 
Herbarium. 
This form differs from the variety brevicalyx mainly in the hnear- 
lanceolate leaves. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium ex coll. Hillebrand 
is labeled C. paludosa var. filipes. 
Cyrtandra confertiflora C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. 5: 235. 
1887 
Cyrtandra paludosa Gaud. var. 7 confertiflora Wawra, Flora 30: 560. 1872. 
Branches thick, subquadrangular, the apex f ulvo-sericeous ; leaves 
large, opposite, elliptical, serrate, 28 cm. long, 12 cm. broad, acute at both 
ends, silky-villose along the nerves below; petioles 5-8 cm., narrowly winged 
cymes subsessile, almost capitate, yellowish-silky when young; bracts 
2 cm., glabrate, deciduous; calyx 12 mm., subovate, rostrate and closed 
before flowering, reddish yellow-silky, finally glabrate and deciduous; 
corolla 25 mm. long, the upper lip erect, the lower divaricately opened, 
almost glabrous; fruit i cm. long, 7 mm. broad, ovoid, subconical. 
Kauai: Dense forest of KeaHa, Wawra no. 2057 in herb. Vienna; 
U. Faurie, December, 1909, no. 618, in herb. College of Hawaii, no. 13098. 
Cyrtandra confertiflora C. B. Clarke is a decidedly distinct species and 
differs from C. paludosa mainly in the larger leaves and the densely glom- 
erate cyme practically without peduncle and with short pedicels. The 
writer has examined the type in the Vienna Herbarium, but through some 
error he omitted it from the section Cylindrocalyces where it belongs. 
U. Faurie's specimens of this species were identified by Hector Leveille as 
Cyrtandra latebrosa Hillebr. and distributed as such. 
