1648 



HELICONIAN pulverul6nta. 



Powdered Heliconia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Musace* Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 



^HEUCOmA Unn.-Calycis limbi lacini* tres exteriores inter se 

 coalescentes, sutequales, lineari-lanceolatee, acuta . ; tres nt™<V £*™ 

 2 exterioribus subconformes, approximate, una infima multo b -ore c»- 

 minata. Stamina 5, longitudine calycis, et basi lac.marum "gjj- W 

 simplex; stigma depressum, a summo stylo vjx distmctum, ^^^ 

 brevissimis. Capsula subdrupacea, apice umbilicata, in cocco tres secedens 

 coccis monospermis subosseis indehiscentibus ; serrnne QX ^ — ™^us 

 caulescentes, aut acaules, foliis petiolatis baszvagxnantibus ; spath.s p lunbus 

 superpositis distichis ; floribus in axilld spatharum tnsertis. Ach. Kicnara, 

 Act. acad. nat. cur. xv. suppl. p. 13. 



H.pulverulenta; foliis basi obtusis cordatisve ap.ce acut.s subtus pulveru 

 lentis, spathis ternis paucifloris folio bracteah brev.onbus 

 Caulis glaucedine paucd vestitus. FolmsesgmpedaUa *'WW*£™ 



lata, supra l«tl viridia sanguineo angusttmf ^^^^T^. 



copiosissimd pulverulentd facile separabzh ^'/^ZZ l^S t 



rlatum, pLlo glauco oasivaginante ^f^SuS^ 



pentes. 



filamenta flava ; antherae 



A beautiful stove plant, for which we are *%dtoSir 

 Abraham Hume, Bart., in whose hothouse at Wormleybury 

 it flowered in July last. 



All the Plantain tribe are remarkable ei* er J or *!"/ 

 beauty, or size, or singularity of their foliage but th s, 

 although inferior to many in the magnitude of its parts, 



The name 



• A senus neatly related to that which Botanists call Mass. The «*£ 

 of the Mnses naTnraU, recalls that of Monnt Helicon, on wh.ch they dwelt. 



