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specially requesting Mr. Jenman to try to procure the plant again, 

 a commission which he has now successfully accomplished. It is 

 to Mr. Bentham that we are indebted for its identification with the 

 genus Brocchinia, which is known to us in England only by the 

 description by the younger Schultes (Eoem. et Schultes Syst. Veg., 

 vol. vii., p. 1250) of a different species gathered long ago by 

 Martius in the Araracoara Mountains. It proves to be one of the 

 most tree-like of all the known Bromeliads, reproducing in this 

 order the habit of a Cordyline or Fourcroya; but it is very interesting 

 that Mr. Jenman has also discovered a third species, of which the 

 habit is quite that of an ordinary TiUandda or Catopsis. 



Brocchinia eeducta, n. sp. — Terrestrial, acaulescent. Leaves 

 very few to a rosette, remaining erect and folded round each other 

 and the' peduncle, lorate, glabrous, l-i- ft. long, 2 in. broad at the 

 middle, obtuse, without any marginal prickles. Peduncle a couple 

 of feet long, slender, terete, furnished with several small ovate 

 adpressed reduced leaves. Inflorescence a lax rhomboid panicle 

 8-12 in. long, with few erecto-patent subspicate branches, simple 

 or the lowest occasionally forked ; branchlets pilose, the flowering 

 part not more than 3-4 in. long; flowers all solitary; bracts 

 minute, ovate. Whole flower not more than ^ in. long. Sepals 

 and petals about as long as the pilose oblong-cylindrical ovary, the 

 former oblong and the latter orbicular. Stamens and style as in 

 the other species. Capsule not seen. — Kaieteur Savanna, Jenman 

 873! y 



Stegolepis ferruginea, n. sp. — Dilated base of the leaf oblong, C^ 

 broadly rounded at the apex, rigid in texture, 5-6 in. long ; 

 lamina ensiform, also rigid in texture, green and glabrous on both 

 surfaces, 2 ft. long, 1^ in. broad, narrowed to an acute tip and at the 

 top of the dilated base to less than half an inch, the midrib distinct 

 on both surfaces in the lower ]3art of the leaf, but lost towards the 

 top. Scape 1^ ft. long, slender, strongly angled. Heads terminal 

 on the scapes, consisting of about 20 oblong clusters ^ in. long, 

 each composed of about 20 imbricated rigid ferruginous bracts and 

 a terminal flower. Sepals 3, oblong-lanceolate, acute, similar in 

 texture and colour to the bracts, ^ in. long. Petals 3, oblong- 

 unguiculate, united at the base. Anthers 5, lanceolate, sagittate 

 at the base, | in. long, with rugose waved valves dehiscing by a 

 terminal pore and a short cylindiical filament springing h'om the 

 cup formed by the base of the united petals. Ovary globose, with 

 a short filiform style. — Kaieteur Savanna, Jenman 956!; and 

 gathered also in 1878 by Mr. Im Thurn. Quite similar in 

 structure to the only other species of the genus, S. guianensis, 

 Klotzsch, which was also gathered by Mr. Jenman, and is fully 

 described in Kornicke's recent Monograph of the Kapateaceae 

 (Linnaea, vol. xxxvii., p. 481), but much more slender in habit, 

 with smaller heads, bracts, and flowers. 



