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the lowest branch of which is a foot long, naked at the base, sub- 

 tended by a large lanceolate bract. Secondary racemes oblong- 

 cyhndrical, three inches diameter, some of then* branches bearing 

 only one, but some two to three flowers, each clasped at the base 

 by a round cordate obtuse coriaceous flower-bract a quarter of an 

 inch long, half an inch broad, with a brown pungent spine nearly 

 as long as the lamina. Calyx including ovary five-eighths to 

 three-quarters of an inch long ; ovary globose ; sepals lanceolate, 

 one-quarter to one-third of an inch long, minutely cuspidate. 

 Petals about an inch long, greenish-yellow, twisted after flowering. 

 — Andes of Peru, Pawn! [Herh. Mus. Brit.) 



22. M. MExiCANA, Baker, n. sp. — Leaves with a dilated base 

 half a foot long, four to five inches "broad, and a lorate lamina 

 above two feet long, three inches broad at the middle, with close 

 horny deltoid s^^reading teeth not more than a line long. Panicle 

 lax, deltoid, tripinnate, one foot and a half to two feet long, nearly 

 a foot broad at the base, with stout floccose rachises, the lower 

 branches erecto-patent, half a foot long, the lowest tertiar}^ branch- 

 lets bearing three to four flowers each, with a furfuraceous pedicel 

 one-quarter to one-half of an inch long, with a minute subulate 

 deciduous bract at the base. Flower-bracts none. Calyx including 

 ovary half an inch long ; ova^ry oblong, furfuraceous ; sepals one- 

 eighth of an inch long, deltoid, with a distinct mucro. Petals 

 one-sixth of an inch longer than the sej^Jals. — Mexico, in the 

 district of Orizaba, Boiuy/eau, 310G ! Well-marked in the grou^D 

 by its obsolete flower-bracts. 



23. M. sPECTABiLis, Brtmr/. ; Houllet in Kev. Hort., 1875, 311, 

 with a coloured figure. — Plromieava spectahilis, K.Koch; E. Morren, 

 Cat., 1873, 13. — Guzmannia spectabilis, Hort. — Leaves with a 

 dilated entire oblong base half a foot long and broad, and a lorate 

 obtuse cuspidate minutely serrated horny lamina above two feet 

 long, two to three inches broad at the middle. Scape nearly as 

 long as the leaves. Liflorescence a lax deltoid panicle as long as 

 the sca^De with many bipinnate branches ; tertiary branchlets lax- 

 flowered. Flowei'-bracts minute. Calyx including ovary half an 

 inch long ; sepals shortly cuspidate. Petals bright red, twice as 

 long as the sepals. — Guatemala. I am not aware that this is in 

 cultivation in England; I have seen only a leaf in the herbarium 

 of Dr. Karl Koch. 



24. M. cy:.ioso-paniculata. Baker, n. sp. — ^E. juinicuJif/era, 

 Griseb., Gott. Naclit., 1861, 13, ex parte. — Leaves with a dilated 

 oblong base half a foot long, four to five inches broad, and a lorate 

 lamina two feet long, two and a half to three inches broad, with a 

 deltoid cuspidate tip and small close horny brown teeth. Scape 

 sheathed by large lanceolate imbricated bract leaves. Flowers in 

 an ample deltoid tripinnate panicle, the lower branches nearly a 

 foot long, spreading, peduncled, subtended by lanceolate bracts 

 four to five niches long. Secondary branches two to three inches 

 broad ; tertiary laxly cymose, each flower with a stift' ascending 

 pedicel one-quarter to five eighths of an inch long, with a minute 



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