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serrated. Flowers in a dense cylindrical bipinnate panicle six to 

 fifteen inches long, two. to three inches broad,. with very numerous 

 spreading, very flexuose, slender few-flowered branches, the lower 

 often binate. Flower-bracts minute, deltoid- cuspidate. Calyx 

 including ovary half to three-quarters of an inch long. Sepals 

 lanceolate, as long as the ovary, with a large mucro. Petals red- 

 purple, twice as long as the sepals. — Jamaica, Dr. Wright I Purdie ! 

 Yeneziielsi, FencUer, 24:54: [ Moritz,29d \ Para, Count Hofmannsegg, 

 Spruce! — Although this is a fine plant, with a wide range of 

 locality, y^i 1 am not aware that it has been introduced into 

 cultivation. 



44. M. SETiGEEA, Mart.; Schultes fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 1274. — 

 Leaves with a dilated base four to five inches long,. and a lorate 

 cuspidate lamina one foot and a half to three feet long, fifteen to 

 eighteen lines broad, the spines near the base a quarter of an inch 

 long, the upj)er ones growing gradually smaller till the uppermost 

 are one-third of a line. Scape long, sheathed with lanceolate- 

 acuminate bract-leaves reaching a length of six to eight inches, 

 purple-tinted and spine-bordered. Panicle three to four feet long, 

 with a tomentose axis and s^jreading two- to three-fid, two- to three- 

 flowered spicate branches, subtended at the base with a bract with 

 a very long pungent point. Flower-bracts coriaceous, wraj)ped 

 round the flower so as to form a tube three-eighths of an inch to 

 half an inch long, terminated with a black spine an inch long ; the 

 upx^ermost flowerless and reduced to acicular spines. Calyx pale 

 yellowish green, white-floccose. Petals pale rose-red. — Eio Negro, 

 Martius. 



45. M. FASciATA, Baker. — Billbergiafasciata, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg., 

 t. 1130. — HoplojjJiytum fasciatum, Beer, Brom., 129. — Hohenbergia 

 fasciata, Schultes fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 1253. — JEchmea Leopoldii, 

 Hort. — Billhergia rhodocganea, Lemaire in Flore des Serres, t. 207 ; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 4883. — Leaves about twenty in a rosette, 

 with an oblong entire clas^nng base three to four inches broad, and 

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

 two inches and a half broad at the middle, the ti^D rounded with a 

 mucro, the face plam-green, the back marked with white cross- 

 bands, especially in the lower half, the edge-teeth minute, brown, 

 deltoid. Scape erect, floccose, about a foot long, mottled purple 

 and white, with several pale red erect lanceolate bract-leaves. 

 Flowers in a very dense simple or forked head three to four inches 

 long and broad. Flower-bracts very large and flat, not navicular, 

 coriaceous, acuminate and sliarply serrate, bright pink, the lower 

 two to three inches long, the upper not much longer than the 

 flowers. Ovary with calyx half an inch to five-eighths of an inch 

 long. Sepals lanceolate, as long as the ovary, not mucronate. 

 Petals pink, lingulate, three-quarters of an inch long. — Eio Janeiro. 

 Introduced into cultivation in 1826. 



46. JE. BuRCHELLii, Baker, n. sp. — Bromdia aurantiaca, 

 Burchell MSS. — Leaves twelve to eighteen inches long, with a 

 dilated enthe utricular base two inches to two inches and a half 



