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Calyx including ovary one-half to five -eighths of an inch long. 

 Petals shortly protruded. — South Brazil. This I know only from 

 the two figures ahove cited. It seems to he a very close ally of . JJ. 

 glomerata, Hook., mainly distinguished by its small deltoid flower- 

 bracts, which are much shorter than the calyx. It is included in 

 Morren's Liege catalogue of 1873, but I have not seen it in 

 England. 



16. M. Wrightii, nah-er.—.F.. distam, Griseb., PL Cub., 253. 

 — Leaves with an oblong dilated base four to five inches broad, 

 and a lorate lamina one foot and a half to two feet long, three to 

 four inches broad, hornj" in texture, closely minutel}- serrated, 

 rounded at the tip with a prominent cusp. Scape slender, 

 reaching a length of two feet or more, sheathed by distant erect 

 pale lanceolate bract-leaves. Panicle a foot long, composed of 

 distant short spreading branches, subtended by lanceolate bracts 

 and ending in dense oblong multifarious spikes one inch to one inch 

 and a half long. Flower-bracts deltoid, with a horny mucro, 

 a quarter of an inch long. Calyx including ovary three eighths of 

 an inch long. Sepals deltoid-cuspidate, one-eighth of an inch long. 

 Petals pale, twice as long as the sepals. — Cuba, C. Wru/ht, 1525 ! 

 Closely allied to .E. distans, but the branches of the panicle much 

 shorter, and flower-bracts and sepals both deltoid with a cusp. 



17. M. GLOMERATA, Hook. in Bot. Mag., 5668. — Hohenbergia stel- 

 lata, Schultesfil., Syst. Veg,, vii., 1251. — Hohenbergia enjthrostachgs, 

 A. Brong., Journ. Imp. Soc. Hort., July, 1864, cum icone ; Car- 

 riere in Eev. Hort., 1869, 217, fig. 53. — Pironneava roseo-cariilea, 

 K. Koch; Eegel, Gartenfl., xi. 71. — P.Morreyiiana, Kegel, Gartenfl., 

 1874, 257, tab. 805. — Leaves twelve to twenty in a rosette, with a 

 dilated entire deltoid base four inches broad, and a lorate lamina 

 one foot and a half to two feet long, two to three inches broad at 

 the middle, horny in texture, both sides bright green, deeply 

 channelled down the face in the lower half, the tip obtuse with a 

 cusp, the edges furnished with close minute brown horny teeth, 

 those near the base of the leaf one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch 

 long. Scape one to one and a half foot long, sheathed by several 

 adpressed pale lanceolate bract-leaves two to three inches long. 

 Flowers in a narrow panicle about a foot long, composed of sessile 

 or short peduncled clustered dense multifarious oblong or globose 

 heads one to one and a half inch long. Flower-bracts deltoid- 

 acuminate, one -half to three-quarters of an inch long ; in one 

 variety bright scarlet, in another greenish white. Calyx 

 including the ovary one half to five -eighths of an inch long ; ovary 

 much compressed on the side nearest the axis : sepals lanceolate- 

 cuspidate, twice as long as the ovary. Petals violet, one-third 

 of an inch longer than the sepals. — Bahia ; discovered by Martins ; 

 introduced about 1860, and now one of the commonest species in 

 European gardens. 



18. 2Fj. distans, Griseb., Flor. Brit. West Ind., 592. — Hohen- 

 hergid distans, Baker in Bef. Bot., sub. t. 284 — Leaves lorate, one 

 foot and a half long, two inches broad at the middle, not very 



