: ie tae ee 
~-Heticonia PsirracoruM. PARROT-BEAKED 
HELICONIA. | 
epbdedeinesieae 
Clafs and Order. 
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PENTANDRIA MonocyNIA. 
Generic Charaffer. 
Spathe. Cal. 0. — Cor. tripetala. Nefarium diphyllum. 
Pericarp. tricoccon. Sem. folitaria. ; 
_ Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
-HELICONIA Pfittacorum glabra, foliis lanceolatis. ellipticis 
“eee _. acuminatis, {pathis ere€tis lanceolatis.. Bank's 
Spee eae iM fio ee : : 
~ “HELICONIA Pfittacorum foliis caulinis bafi rotundatis, 
fpadice terminali flexuofo, fpathis lanceolatis, 
ne€lario lanceolato concavo integro. Swariz. 
Ob/f. 98. : é 
This beautiful ftove plant is a native of Jamaica, growing 
in the mountains, in places cleared of wood, and in this 
fituation acquires the ftature of eight feet, with leaves propor- 
tionally large. With us it rifes about three feet, with a 
-ftraight round polifhed ftem, naked at the upper part and 
clothed below with {mooth fhining leaves, alternate lanceolate. 
elliptic acuminated many-nerved, with membranaceous foot- 
‘ftalks fheathing the ftem. At a more advanced ftage than that 
‘at which our drawing was taken, the top of the ftem becomes 
“flexuous or zig-zag, and from each bend there grows an ereét 
lanceolate concave fpatha, within which the flowers grow in 
“clufters upon fliort peduncles, thefe remain clofed during the 
fun@tion of flowering, opening only juft before they fall. The 
Corolla, properly fpeaking, is monopetalous, the whole falling 
off in one piece; if carefully examined it divides into five 
fegments, the three outermoft of which are ufually defcribed — 
as the three petals of the corolla; the two ifnermoft form 
Whaly 
