Griccs: Species oF HELICoNraA 651 
stiff, not curved ; (2) an oblong, not a deltoid, panicle ; (3) a very 
flexuose rachis ; (4) bracts not approximated and fewer than in 
Hf, villosa ; (5) flower-bracts glabrous, shorter than the flowers, not 
hirsute and of the same length; (6) flowers larger, glabrous, not 
hairy, pedicelled, not sessile, ovary glabrous, not pubescent; (7) 
leaves obliquely rounded at the base and short-acuminate at the 
tip, not subattenuate, alike at both ends. 
Fic. 1. Heliconia latispatha Bentham. Inflorescence just before anthesis. Note 
that though the branch-bracts are quite narrow, the flowers are not visible. Traced 
from a photograph by Mr. G. N. Collins (ve. 729). 
HELICONIA LATISPATHA- Bentham 
Whole plant about 2.5 m. tall; stem 15 cm. in circumference, 
green at the base but above and on the petioles covered with a 
thin evanescent bloom: petioles about 50 cm. long : leaf-blades 
"Im. by 30 cm., short-acuminate at the tip, obliquely narrowed to 
