CYRTANDREAE HAWAIIENSES 
of Hawaii Herbarium is without flower or fruit. The leaves, however, 
agree quite well with the typical C. kealiae. 
Cyrtandra Knudsenii Rock n. sp. 
A shrub 2-3 m. high; branches quadrangular towards their apices, 
stout and hirsute with yellowish hairs; leaves ovate to obovate-oblong, 
coriaceous, dark green above, dark brown beneath, covered on both 
sides with dark brown silky appressed hairs, the leaf margin obscurely 
denticulate and bordered with dense deep golden-brown hairs, acute 
at both ends, somewhat unsymmetrical at the base, 8-12 cm. long, 
3-6 cm. wide, the petioles 2-4 cm. long; peduncles 7-15 mm. long; 
bracts Hnear-lanceolate, 6-10 mm. long ; pedicels one to three 10-18 mm. 
long, densely villous-hirsute as are the peduncle, bracts and calyx, 
the latter unevenly split often to near the base into oblong, acute 
lobes, 6-20 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, triplinerved, hirsute inside; corolla 
somewhat protruding, curved, densely hirsute, the lobes oblong; ovary 
glabrous, ovoid; style nearly i cm. long, thickened towards the apex, 
more or less hirsute. 
Kauai: Halemanu forests, elevation 3,600-4,000 feet, drier forest 
lands of Kopiwai in company with Alphitonia excelsa, Platydesma 
cornutum, Antidesma platyphyllum, Cyanea leptostegia, Cyanea hir- 
tella, etc., flowering Feb. 16, 1909, Rock no. 1688, type in herb. 
College of Hawaii; Kaholuamano, drier forest, flowering Sept., 1909, 
Rock no. 5603 in herb. College of Hawaii; same locality, flowering and 
fruiting Oct. 20, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 15360 in U. S. Nat. Herb. 
The specimens from Kaholuamano differ somewhat from those of 
Halemanu in the shorter and consequently less deeply lobed calyx. 
The Halemanu specimens have the calyx divided almost to the very 
base; the lobes are somewhat constricted below the middle but not 
stipitate as in C. kauaiensis, neither are they thin and green, but thick 
and densely hirsute with brownish hairs, the fruit in Cyrtandra kauien- 
sis is hirsute at the apex which would indicate a pubescent or hirsute 
ovary. The bracts in C. kauaiensis are minute and filiform, while in 
C. Knudsenii they are linear-lanceolate. The species is related to C. 
kauaiensis Wawra but must be classed with C. platyphylla and C. 
Pickeringii. 
In the collection made by A. S. Hitchcock on Kauai the writer 
found a species of Cyrtandra, collected in the type locality, Kaholu- 
amano, which must be referred to C. Knudsenii Rock. In Hitchcock's 
