Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...Kohala range. Hillebrand. This variety has never been re-collected, nor is there a specimen to be found in Hillebrand's collection in the Berlin Herbarium. Cyanea solenocalyx Hillebr. Flora Haw. Isl. 258. 1888. (Plates 85, 86.) A stout and tall shrub, 2-4 m high, the stem hollow, the thick and stiff branches muricate below, aculeate above with pale yellow conical spines; leaves dimorphous, those of the young plant broadly ovate or cordate, shortly lobed, prickly on both faces; those of the adult plant obovate-oblong, 37.5-60 cm long, 12.5-22.5 cm wide, on fleshy muricate petioles of 12.5-25 cm; shortly acuminate or obtuse at either end, sinuate or entire, thin chartaceous, coarsely hispidulous underneath, the rib muricate; raceme fleshy 3.75-5 cm bracteate from near the base, the pedicels 12-24 mm, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 18-35 mm; the bractlets 8-12 mm, calyx scabrous and hirsute or hispid, but almost glabrous with age, the adnate portion 12 mm, the broad foliaceous several nerved lobes 20-24 mm long and connate entirely or in part in a broad cylindrical or funnel-shaped sheath; corolla semierect but ampliate, 30-40 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, slit beyond the middle, scabro-hispid, dark purple; staminal column glabrous, anthers purple, the upper ones beardless: berry ovoid 16 mm, seeds pale yellow. MOLOKAI: In deep gulches of Kalae, Mapulehu and elsewhere, Hillebrand type in Herbarium Berlin;--Molokai, no. 2 leg. Lydgate, J. F.. young plant with lobed leaf;--forests of Mapulehu, flowering April 1910, Rock no. 6112 in herbarium College of Hawaii;--ridge leading to Pelekunu, fruiting April 1910, Rock no. 8813 in herbarium College of Hawaii;--Mapulehu, May 6, 1915, Rock no. 12521 in herbarium College of Hawaii;--Pukoo, October 8, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock no. 15...