264 JOSEPH F. ROCK 
Cyrtandra cordifolia Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie 446, t. 56. 1826 
A shrub 1.5-2.5 m. high, freely branching from the base, the young 
shoots villous with pale ochraceous hairs; leaves opposite, ovate- 
suborbicular, shortly acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base, 
sharply dentate or serrate, 15-20 cm. in diameter, membranaceous to 
chartaceous, the petioles 5-15 cm. long; peduncle 2.5-6.5 cm. long, 
subumbellately several-flowered; flowers four to ten on pedicels 15-20 
mm. long; bracts foliaceous, broadly lanceolate, 1.5-4 cm. long; calyx 
membranaceous, whitish, villous inside and outside, cup-shaped, 
15 mm. high, evenly divided to the middle or beyond into broadly 
ovate or triangular lobes, rotately expanded when in fruit or even 
reflexed; corolla villous, broad tubular, straight, about 15 mm. long, 
the short lobes rounded, nearly equal; ovary and style villous, the 
latter very short, articulate below the stigma; berry broad-ovoid, 
pubescent. 
In insulis Sandwicensibus, Gaudichaud, altitude 100-300 hex. leg. 
1829. Also visit of 1 841. 
Oahu: In herb. Berlin, ex coll. Gaudichaud, two sheets, visit 1829 
and 1 841, ex coll. Meyen, leaves only, ex herb. Soc. Hort. London, 
Ins. Owhyhee, ad montem-Kaah, Macrae, Junio, 1825,^ Lindley, visit 
1832, Woahoo, Bennet Collection, ex coll. Hillebrand, two sheets, 
Aug., 1870; in herb. Vienna, Wawra, 3 sheets, det. C. B. Clarke, no. 
1743; in herb. College of Hawaii, ex coll. Hillebrand, ex Mus. Bot. 
BerHn, one sheet, flowering specimen, Aug., 1870, Tantalus, flowering 
Dec. 2, 1906, Otto H. Swezey, no. 12774, Koolau Mts., Wahiawa 
range, flowering, Aug., 1908, Rock no. 28, Pauoa Valley, flowering, 
Oct. 24, 1908, Rock no. 702, Palolo Valley, flowerbuds 1915, Rock no. 
1 198, Nuuanu Pali, fruiting Oct., 1909, Abbe Faurie no. 602; in 
U. S. Nat. Herb., Schofield Barracks, East Range, flowering July ii, 
1916, A. S. Hitchcock, no. 14037. 
One sheet in the Hillebrand collection came from the southern 
slopes of Mt. Haleakala, 1870. This plant is referable to Cyrtandra 
cordifolia gynoglahra Rock. Cyrtandra cordifolia is a very distinct 
species and can never be mistaken. It is confined to the island of 
Oahu, although related species occur on Maui. The variety gyno- 
glahra differs mainly in the glabrous ovary. In C. cordifolia the ovary 
is densely villous. 
1 This plant seems to have been collected on Hawaii and represents Cyrtandra 
platyphylla ; the leaves are rounded but not cordate. 
