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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
petioles of 2-6 cm.; peduncle short, 5 mm. long; cyme few-(3-7) 
flowered; bracts 6-8 mm., long-acuminate, covered with reddish 
brown hair; pedicels 6-10 mm. long; calyx cylindrical to campanulate, 
thin, 10-15 mm., unevenly 5-fid to the middle or less into lanceolate, 
acuminate lobes, splitting laterally, caducous when with fruit, partly 
hirtellous or glabrous; corolla 15-20 mm., suberect, exserted, glabrous, 
white; fruit 12-20 mm. long, 5-8 mm. broad, glabrous. 
Oahu: ex. Coll. Gaudichaud no. 154, lies Sandwich, visit 1841, 
in herb. Berlin, and part of type in College of Hawaii herbarium; 
Ins. Sandwic. Oahu, Meyen 5/31, labeled C. Garnottiana det. C. B. CI. 
C. paludosa, and Meyen C. triflora Gaud. det. C. B. CI. C. paludosa 
Woahoo, Ins. Sandw. Macrae, Maio 1825, in herb. Soc. Hort. Lond. 
and in herb. Berhn; Lindley visit 1832 in herb. Berlin; Hawaiische 
Inseln, Wawra no. 1665, Oahu, fruiting and flowering (three sheets) 
in herb. Vienna and herb. College of Hawaii, and no. 2375 leg. Hbd. 
comm. Dr. Wawra, in herb. Vienna; Niu Valley, Oahu, leg. Lydgate, 
WilH, 1870, herb. Hillebr. Berlin; Kalihi, Oahu, Jan. 1870, leg. Hbd. 
fruiting specimen in herb. Berlin; Palolo Valley, main ridge, flowering, 
Nov. 7, 1908, Rock no. 96 in herb. College of Hawaii; Punaluu Mts., 
Koolau, flowering Nov. 14-21, 1908, Rock no. 291 in herb. College of 
Hawaii; Waikane Mts., flowering, Jan. 23, 1909, Rock no. 1251 in 
herb. College of Hawaii. 
The Oahu specimens are the typical C. paludosa a typica C. B. 
Clarke. The species occurs on Hawaii also, but is much smaller in 
every way. 
Hawaii: Kilauea, leg. Hillebr. April 1868, flowering, in herb. 
Berlin; Hilo, leg. Lydgate in herb. Berlin (with small narrow leaves); 
Kalanilehua, Kilauea, flowering, May 1912, Rock no. 10343 herb. 
College of Hawaii; Alakahi Kawainui along ditch trail, flowering and 
fruiting, July 13, 1909, Rock no. 4473 (two sheets) in herb. College of 
Hawaii; Alakahi ditch in swampy forest, flowering, June 1 910, Rock 
no. 8513 in herb. College of Hawaii. 
The specimens from Alakahi and Kawainui gorges, near the 
summit of the Kohala mountains, at an elevation of 4,200-4,500 feet, 
differ considerably from the typical specimens occurring on Oahu; 
on Hawaii where they grow in dense swampy forests in thick Sphagnum 
moss they are only 2-3 feet in height, the leaves are smaller, ovate- 
elliptical, much more coarsely serrate, of thicker texture, and on 
shorter petioles; the peduncles are shorter than in the Oahu specimen, 
or are almost wanting; the calyx is glabrous and not thin. It would 
