696 Russpy: AN ENUMERATION OF THE PLANTS 
nerves about 45 pairs, meeting the midrib at an angle of about 
50°: bracts .8-1.5 dm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse, imbricated, the 
racemes about 1.5-2.5 dm. long, somewhat panicled or solitary : 
pedicels 3 cm. long, very stout, strongly flexed at the apex: 
perianth about 6 cm. long, the divisions of the calyx 7 cm. long, 
1.5 cm. broad, lanceolate: petals adnate to the androecium about 
one third of their length: anther 2.5 cm. long, narrowly linear, 
divisions of the androecium only 3, as long as the petals, oblong, 
I-I.5 cm. broad: style fleshy, dark, flattened, 5 mm. broad, ob- 
tuse: pod 5 or 6 cm. long, oval, rounded at both ends, tipped by 
the persistent sepals: seeds blackish, smooth, a little more than I 
cm. long and broad. 
_ Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 2857). The same as Bang’s no. 
2417, of which Mr. Bang says: “ Plant about 10 ft. high, forming — 
a bush, the flowers white; in wet forest soil at Sacramento, Aug. 
1894. Local names ‘“Chias,” ‘‘ Tacara.” Seeds very hard, used 
in weighing “gold.” 
Fleliconia cannoides A. Rich. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 15: Suppl. 
24. pl.g. 1831. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 2221), and junc. 
of Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios, Aug. 1886 (no. 2223). The 
same as Bang’s no. 4112 and the same collected by Holton. 
Fleliconia Bahai L. Mant. 2: 211. Reis, 1500 ft., June 1886 
(no. 2222). 
Heliconia psittacorum L. f. Suppl. 158. Junc. of Rivers Beni ° 
and Madre de Dios, Aug. 1886 (no. 2230). 
BROMELIACEAE 
_ Ananas sativus Schult. f. Syst. 7 : no. 1283. Mapiri, 2500 ft., 
May 1886 (no. 2851). The plant grows in a perfectly wild state, 
along forest-roads, distant from habitations. : 
Billbergia (Helicodea) Boliviensis Baker, sp. nov. 
: Acaulis, foliis lanceolatis tenuiter lepidotis aculeis marginalibus 
‘minuto, pedunculo elongato, bracteis superioribus magnis patulis 
tubellis, floribus in spicam simplicem subdensam dispositis, bractels 
minutis, ovario oblongo subtiliter sulcato albo lepidoto, sepalis 
oblongis ovario duplo longioribus, petalis viridulis angustis longe 
unguiculatis, serratabilus petalis longioribus. 
. Leaves few in a rosette, 1.5—2 ft. long, about an inch broad at 
_ the middle: peduncles shorter than the leaves : lower bract-leaves 
_ appressed, those towards the base of the spike spreading, bright 
