GricGs: SPECIES OF HELICONIA 657 
perianth-segments broad, flower-bracts ovate. It differs from /V. 
that in the habit, in the acute leaf and in the sessile inflorescence : 
and from //. purpurea in the color and width of the bracts: For 
this plant the name Heliconia rutila is suggested. 2!© 
A fourth species is described by Petersen in the Flora Brasili- 
ensis (3°: 16. p/. 5). This, Petersen himself believed to be dif- 
ferent from Richard’s species, but he supposed it to be the same 
as Swartz’s, to whom he credits the name. It differs from HW. 
Bikat in having acuminate glaucous leaves; a long, weak, flexible 
peduncle, a very flexuose rachis with internodes 3-5 cm. long; 
distant, narrow, branch-bracts ; and triangular flower bracts. For 
this species the name Heliconia distans is proposed. As the Flora 
Brasiliensis is not accessible to everyone, it may be of interest to 
add that a reduction of Petersen’s plate of H. distans is given in 
Schimper’s Pflanzen-geographie, page 359. 
For a summary, a key to the species confounded with /e/i- 
conia Bihai may be given: 
Peduncle long, stiff, erect; branch-bracts red, broad, close together ; leaves round at 
both ends, green on both sides. H. Bthat. 
.Peduncle long, flexible, curved; branch-bracts red and yellow, narrow, distant ; 
leaves acuminate, glaucous below. H. distans. 
Peduncle none, leaves green on both sides, acute. ‘ 
Branch-bracts red and yellow, narrow, barely touching each other; perianth-seg- 
ments short and broad. H. rutila. 
Branch-bracts purple and yellow, broadly ovate, close together ; perianth-segments 
linear. H. purpurea. 
‘72  Heliconia Champneiana sp. nov. 
Whole plant 5.5 m. tall (stem 1.5 m., petiole 1.5 m., blade 2 
m.), erect: stems, petioles and blades of the leaves upright and 
turned in all directions, 7. ¢., tangential to circles centering in the 
stem: stem beset with long, straight light brown hairs projecting 
at right angles: leaves 2 m. long, about 50 cm. wide, tip rounded, 
not acute, base obliquely cordate; covered when young with a 
slight bloom on the under surface, which disappears with age and 
in drying, leaving them green and glabrous on both sides: in- 
florescence about 45 cm. long, oblong in outline, composed of 
about 9 bracts, bright orange with occasional red splashes : pedun- 
cle short and stout, not more that 25 cm. long, hairy ; branch- 
bracts close together, hiding the rachis and touching the base of 
the next above them, on the other side ; upper nearly uniform in 
Shape and size, about 14 x 11 cm. (measured dry), broadly ovate, 
