CYRTANDREAE HAWAIIENSES 
curved, 8-10 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, the lobes small, rounded, 
hirsute outside, glabrous inside; ovary glabrous, as is the style; stigma 
pubescent beneath the lobes; fruit ovoid to obovoid, scarcely pro- 
truding from the calyx. 
Hawaii: Forests of the Kohala Mountains, Kohala proper, 
flowering July, 1910, Rock no. 10339, type in herb. College of Hawaii. 
The plant differs from the species and the var. stylopuhens in the 
large leaves and mainly in the very small flowers which are nearly 
hidden in the calyx. The calyx as well as lobes are glabrous inside. 
The bracts, instead of being ovate or broadly obovate, are linear to 
lanceolate-oblong. 
Cyrtandra platyphylla membranacea Rock n. var. 
Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, acuminate at the apex, rounded to 
contracted at the base, the petioles 4-7 cm. long, thin membranaceous 
to subchartaceous, 12-14 cm. long, 6-8 cm. wide, hirtulose on both 
sides, dark above, pale beneath; inflorescence cymose, consisting of a 
peduncle 2-3.5 cm. long, and pedicels varying from 1-2 cm. long, the 
latter especially pubescent with yellowish hairs towards the base of 
the calyx; calyx thin-membranaceous, green, hirsute with scattered 
hairs; corolla pubescent outside; ovary and style glabrous. 
Hawaii: Woods above Waimea in swampy forest, elev. 3,000- 
3,500 feet, flowering and fruiting July 6-10, 1909, Rock no. 4497 and 
4078 respectively, the latter specimen from Holokaiea gulch back of 
Waimea. Type 4078 in herb. College of Hawaii Herbarium; Waimea, 
flowering Aug. 26, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 14368 in U. S. Nat. Herb. 
Differs from the species in the membranaceous leaves which are 
contracted at the base. Only a single fruit seems to develop from an 
inflorescence; the bracts are caducous and the junction between the 
peduncle and pedicel is often not discernible, which gives it the ap- 
pearance of having single-flowered continuous pedicels (no. 4497) . Here 
also belongs no. 13066, collected on the southern slopes of Mauna Loa, 
in the forests of Malehu, Kau; the plant agreeing exactly with those 
from Waimea of the same island save in the pedicels which are shorter. 
Cyrtandra platyphylla hiloensis Rock 
Cyrtandra platyphylla A. Gray /3 var. Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isl. 329. 1888. 
"Peduncle and pedicels only 8-12 mm. long; calyx and corolla 
much shorter, the former less deeply lobed, the latter curved and ex- 
serted; fruit short-ovoid, enclosed in the calycine tube; leaves thick, 
with strong and straight nerves." 
