66 REPORT ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 
BROMELIACE. 
BROCCHINIA REDUCTA, Baker, in Journ. of Bot. xx. (1882), p. 331; Baker, Handb. 
Brom. p. 88; Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. ix. p. 341. (Plate 12.) 
Roraima Range, 3500 ft., McConnell § Quelch, 702.—Also found on the Kaieteur 
Savannah, Jenman, 813. 
Puya rLoccosaA, E. Morren, in Belg. Hort. xxxv. (1878), p. 81; Mez, in DC. Monog. 
Phan. ix. p. 478. 
P. guianensis, Klotzsch, in R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, iii. p. 1067. 
P. sp., Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. 11. (1887), p. 285. 
Roraima Range, 3500 ft, MeConnell & Quelch, 101.—Aiso in Venezuela, Colombia, 
and Bolivia. 
CONNELLIA, N. E. Brown, gen. nov. 
Flores hermaphroditi, regulares. Sepala libera, oblonga. Petala libera, lata, basi 
angustata, nuda, sepalis multo longiora. Stamina petalis breviora et iis basi breviter 
adnata, filamentis filiformibus, antheris oblongis basifixis. Ovarium superum, trigo- 
num, loculis multiovulatis; stylus elongatus; stigmata linearia. Capsula in carpellis 
3 septicide separata, carpellis introrsum dehiscentibus. Semina numerosa, parva, 
linearia, utrinque appendiculata.—Herb:e habitu Z'//andsie. Folia rosulata, integra 
vel basi denticulata. Inflorescentia terminalis, spiciformis, simplex vel composita. 
Flores sub quaque bractea solitarii vel plures, pedicellati. 
CoNNELLIA AUGUSTE, N. E. Brown. (Plate 13.) Capsula 6-7 lin. longa, 3 lin. diam., 
trigona, oblonga, coriacea, glabra, in carpellis 3 septicide soluta, carpellis longe 
rostratis introrsum dehiscentibus. Semina 12-2 lin. longa, lineari-teretia, curvata, 
utrinque membranaceo-appendiculata.— Encholirium Auguste, R. H. Schomb. in Verh. 
des Ver. Befórd. Gartenb. in Preuss. (1846), p. 18, t. 2; in Bot. Zeitung (1846), 
p. 454; R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, ii. p. 271, and iii. p. 1067; & in Bot. 
Rem. Brit. Guiana, p. 77; De Beer, Brom. p.27. | Ceraguata Auguste, Benth. 
& Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 668. Dyckia Auguste, Baker, Handb. Brom. p. 135. 
Puya Auguste, Mez, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ix. p. 487, partim. 
Summit of Mount Roraima, 8600 ft, McConnell & Queleh, 670. South slopes of 
Roraima at 6500 ft., Schomburgk, 687, 1021. 
The discovery of fruiting specimens of this plant by Messrs. McConnell & Quelch 
demonstrates that it cannot properly be referred to either of the genera under which it 
has previously been placed. From Eucholirion it differs totally in habit, large bracts, 
broad petals, and seeds. From Caraguata it differs in its free petals and in its seeds. 
From Dyckia it differs in habit, in the long-beaked entire (not bifid) carpels into which 
the ripe fruit separates, and in its seeds. And from Puya it differs in habit, in the petals 
not twisting when the flower fades, in the capsule not dehiscing loculicidally, and in the 
seeds. The only genus which approaches it in structure is Lindmania, Mez, but the 
habit, branching panicle, small bracts and very small flowers of the species of Lindmania 
