GUNNERA PETALOIDEA GAUD. 
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The Hawaiian name for this plant is Ape or Ape- Ape; so far as is 
known the natives did not utiHze this plant in any way. Some of the 
Gunneras of other regions are used horticulturally to produce luxuriant 
foliage effects, for which purpose they are admirably adapted. The 
Hawaiian species has not been utilized in this way; it is associated 
only with the fog-swept precipices of Hawaii's beautiful rain-forests. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
Gaudichaud. Freycinet, Voy. Bot. 512. 1826. 
A. DC. in DC. Prodr. XVI, 2: 597. 1868. 
A. Gray, in Wilkes U. S. Expl. Exped. 15^: 629-30. 1854. 
Wm. Hillebr., Flora of Hawaiian Islands, 123. 1888. 
A. K. Schindler. Halorrhagaceae, in Engl. Pflanzenreich, 23, IV, 225: 117. 1905, 
L. H. Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 
Wm. A. Bryan. Natural History of Hawaii. 
Vaughan MacCaughey. Vegetation of the Hawaiian Summit Bogs. Amer. Botan- 
ist 22: 45-52. 1916. 
College of Hawaii, 
Honolulu, Hawaii 
