Griccs: SpEcIEs OF HELICONIA 653 
broad, uppermost 4 cm.; whole inflorescence bright yellow, shad- 
ing to orange on the cheeks of the branch-bracts : flowers a dozen 
or less to the bract, about 4 cm. long, yellow, densely covered 
with the same soft short hair as the rest of the inflorescence, not 
scabrous ; flower-bracts 25 mm. long, nearly ro mm. broad, tri- 
angular acute, densely pubescent, especially on the midrib ; pedi- 
cels 1 cm. long, hairy : berries (not ripe) also hairy. 
Along the road from Cahabon to Senaju (xo. 359) growing on 
a steep river bank a mile further east than 1. Collinsiana. It is 
known to me from a single clump with only one inflorescence. 
fTeliconia spissa very nearly corresponds with the descriptions 
of Hf, Schiedeana. But they are lacking in detail except as to 
floral characters. The most obvious difference is in the color of 
the branch-bracts, which is red in that species but yellow and 
orange in the present. 
Heliconia elongata sp. nov. 
Plant generally erect in all its parts, 2-4 m. tall (type, 3.5 m. 
with a stem 1.5 m., petiole 0.5 m., blade 1.5 m.), glabrous: leaf 
elongated-oblong, only one seventh as broad (22 cm.) as long, 
very long-cuneate at the base, rounded to the suddenly short- 
acuminate tip, green on both sides; mid-rib very large and stiff, 
15 mm. in diameter near the base of the leaf: inflorescence up- 
right, without a peduncle, oblong in outline, composed of a dozen 
or more deeply boat-shaped bracts with clasping bases which 
hide the stiff, straight rachis; branch-bracts green on the edges 
and bottom, shading through yellowish-green to a small patch of 
weak, light red on the cheeks but nowhere crimson; one from the 
middle of the spike 13 cm. by 9 cm. (measured dry), all ovate, 
Sradually tapering to the sharply acuminate tip: flowers 8 cm. 
long, bright green at the exposed tips, just projecting above the 
edges of the branch-bracts ; segments of the perianth linear ob- 
long ; flower-bracts 5 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, triangular-ovate. 
(Fic. a.) 
No. 790. It grows all along the Polochic River and up into 
the hills to an altitude of about 2,000 feet along the road from 
Panzos to Sepacuité, where a few clumps of it were seen growing 
with 7. Champneiana. It covers a greater area and thrives under 
more varied conditions than any other species studied. 
Donnell Smith, 0. 1830, ‘ Monte Cachirulo, Depart. Yzabal, 
alt. 700 pp. April, 1899.” 
