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covered with dirty brown hair; leaves ternate, thick-coriaceous, elliptical- 
oblong, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, dark green and glossy above, 
the veins impressed, pale dull green beneath with the hispidulous midrib 
and veins very prominently projecting, the margins irregularly and coarsely 
serrate, excepting the entire base, 20-25 cm. long, 6-9 cm. wide, on petioles 
of 6-9 cm.; cymes axillary in the five upper leaf- whorls, 3-7-flowered; 
peduncle thick, fleshy, 1-2 cm. long, bearing at the apex two large foliaceous 
bracts, sessile and subcordate at the base, up to 4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, 
3-5-nerved, peduncle and pedicels hirsute with dark brown hair, the pedicels 
of varying length up to 3.5 cm. when with fruit; calyx large, divided to near 
the base into five large foliaceous lobes, which are distinctly 3-nerved; the 
lobes ovate, acute at the apex, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad near the base; 
corolla hidden in the calyx, the tube straight or slightly curved, constricted 
at the throat and hairy in the upper portion, the lobes small, not spreading, 
and subequal; style short, curved, the broadly bilamellate stigma down- 
ward-spreading; ovary glabrous; fruit large, obovate, 2 cm. long, 18 mm. 
thick, obtuse but crowned with the remnant of the style. 
Hawaii: Not uncommon in the forests on the northeastern slope of 
Mauna Loa, especially in the dense tree-fern forests between 29 miles and 
Kulani (neighborhood of the Volcano of Kilauea), elevation 3000-5000 
feet, in company with Cyrtandra platyphylla typica, Cihotium Menziesii, 
C. Chamissoi, Pritchardia Beccariana, Cyanea pilosa, etc., flowering and 
fruiting August 15, 1918, Rock and Hashimoto no. 131 15 (type) in herb. 
College of Hawaii. 
Cyrtandra montis Loa, confined to the fern forests of the northeast slope 
of Mauna Loa, is a very distinct species and easily recognized by its terete 
stems, and large, leathery, deep green leaves with impressed veins. The 
tallest specimens the writer observed were near the summit of the ancient 
cone crater Kulani, 5500 feet elevation. It is the predominating species in 
the region of Kilauea. 
The species belongs to the section Schizocalyces Hillebr., but on com- 
parison with the other species of that section we find no close relationship 
with any of them. Like C. umbracculiflora it is a very distinct species with 
no apparent relationship to the rest of the species of that section, but with 
leanings towards species in the section Crotonocalyces. 
Cyrtandra ramosissima Rock n. sp. 
A tree 5 m. high or more with a trunk about 15 cm. in diameter; bark 
smooth, usually covered with mosses and ferns; branches many, tortuose, 
the branchlets twisted, terete, and nodose, the nodes at close proximity to 
each other towards the apex; leaves opposite, pale green above, paler to 
whitish below, the veins impressed above, and prominently projecting below, 
hirsute with pale brownish hair above, shortly pubescent to puberulous 
below, thin, submembranous, with pellucid veins and nerves, elliptical, 
acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, coarsely and irregularly serrate 
with the exception of the lower fourth which is entire, 10-12 cm. long, 5.5 
cm. wide, on hirsute petioles of 2.5-4 cm.; flowers solitary in the axils of 
the upper leaves on a hirsute peduncle of 12-15 mm. in length, bracteate 
