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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
The specimen which Hillebrand records from Waiehu, Maui, 
belongs to the writer's forma cymosa. 
Cyrtandra longifolia Hillebr. var. degenerans Wawra, 
forma cymosa Rock n. f. 
Branches angular; leaves quaternate, broadly obovate-oblong, 
thin chartaceous, sparingly pubescent on both sides, dark green above, 
paler underneath, irregularly dentate, acute at the apex, 14-24 cm. 
long, 4.5-9 cm. wide, contracting at the base into a broadly margined 
petiole, subsessile, or on petioles of 2-3 cm.; inflorescence a cyme, 
hirsute with brownish hair throughout; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 
to subfoliaceous ; peduncle 1.5-3 cm., 3-8-flowered ; pedicels 1.5-2.5 
cm.; calyx not fusiform, split into subdeltoid or linear-lanceolate, 
acute lobes, nearly glabra te or hirsute with brownish hair; corolla 
exserted; berry unknown. 
MoLOKAi: Mapulehu Valley, flowering March 1910, Rock no. 
10334 in herb. College of Hawaii. 
Maui: Valley of Waiehu, Hillebrand, without date or number. 
Hawaii: Holokaiea gulch back of Waimea, elevation 4,000 ft., 
flowering July 10, 1909, Rock nos. 4075 and 4479 in herb. College of 
Hawaii. 
The Hawaii specimens differ slightly from the Molokai specimens 
in the larger and denser flowered cyme and the linear-lanceolate, acute 
calycine lobes. 
Cyrtandra longifolia Hillebr. var. degenerans C. B. Clarke, 
forma oppositifolia Rock n. f. 
Branches quasi quadrangular; leaves opposite, obovate-oblong, 
acute at the apex, hirtellous on both surfaces, especially along the 
prominent midrib and nerves, with brownish hair, 15-22 cm. long, 
4-6 cm. wide, gradually contracting into a petiole of 2-3 cm. ; flowers 
single, or three on a common peduncle of 1-1.5 cm.; bracts linear- 
oblong, acute, 12 mm.; pedicels 8-10 mm.; calyx not fusiform, split 
to near the base into 5, linear-oblong, acuminate lobes; peduncle, 
pedicels, and calyx hirsute with reddish-brown hair; corolla slightly 
exserted, lobes large, spreading, of unequal size, hirtellous or nearly 
glabrate; berry unknown. 
Maui: Western division, Honokawaii gulch, flowering Aug. 1910, 
Rock no. 8206 in herb. College of Hawaii. 
Differs from the other forms in the opposite leaves, deeply divided 
calyx, and large spreading corolla lobes. 
