CYRTANDREAE HAWAIIENSES 
Cyrtandra caulescens Rock n. sp. (See PI. XXIII) 
Stem somewhat prostrate, terete in the lower portion, subquad- 
rangular in the upper, hirsute with dark brownish hairs; leaves mem- 
branaceous to chartaceous, ovate, acute at both ends, Hght green above, 
paler underneath, the margins irregularly serrate to dentate, hirsute 
on both sides, about 15 cm. long, 8 cm. wide, the petioles 4.5 cm. long; 
inflorescence a much-branching hirsute cyme, not proceeding from 
the leaf-axils, but from the prostrate stems near the roots, or somewhat 
above the ground, in dense shade and almost hidden; the two common 
peduncles opposite each other, around old leaf scars, about 12 mm. 
long; flowers numerous, on short pedicels; bracts small, lanceolate, 
6 mm. long, i mm. wide; calyx tube 5 mm. long, campanulate, hirsute 
with brownish hairs, the truncate broad lobes 3-5 mm. long, 2.5-3 rnrn- 
wide, hirsute inside and outside; corolla 8 mm. long, urceolate, con- 
stricted at the middle, hirsute in the upper two-thirds only, the lobes 
small, rounded, hirsute; ovary glabrous. 
Maui: East Maui, dense forest of Hamakua, elev. 4,000 feet, on 
the banks of a stream near Honomanu gorge, flowering Sept., 1910, 
Rock (type) no. 8556 in herb. College of Hawaii. 
This species is very remarkable for its densely glomerate inflores- 
cence which is borne along the woody portion of the plant near the 
ground and often on protruding roots. In that respect it comes close 
to another new species found in deep ravines on Oahu along streams, 
belonging to a different section. The Oahu species has the flowers on 
long branching racemes, but they are also borne on protruding roots 
and along the lower portion of the stem. 
Cyrtandra Pickeringii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 5: 350. 1862 
A shrub, the branches densely ferruginous to reddish villous or 
subhirsute; leaves ovate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends 
or the base cuneate or almost round, serrate, up to 16 cm. long, 5-9 
cm. wide, villous on both sides but. sparingly so on the upper surface, 
pale yellowish-brown on the lower, the petioles 2-6 cm. long; peduncles 
1-2 cm. long, three- to seven-flowered; bracts 12 mm. long, free, ovate- 
lanceolate; cyme somewhat loose, simple to dichotomous, pedicels 1-3 
cm. long; calyx 7 mm. long, divided to the middle into four to five 
lobes, the lobes oblong to subovate, persistent; corolla 12-15 long, 
straight, villous outside; ovary glabrous or slightly pubescent, the 
style glabrous, clavate; fruit 12 mm. long, eUipsoidal, densely but 
shortly villous. 
Oahu: Mountains of Oahu, Hillebrand no. 322 in herb. Kew, in 
herb. Berlin and in herb. College of Hawaii; Koolau Mts., Punaluu 
ridges, flowering Dec. 3-14, 1908, Rock no. 763, same locality Dec. 
