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49. M. PECTiNATA, Baker, n. s^d. — Leaves large, uot seen their 

 full length, two and a half to three inches broad above the 

 dilated base, with hooked black horny prickles one-eighth of an 

 inch long. Scape one foot and a half long, quite hidden by its 

 numerous large imbricated coriaceous bract-leaves, of which the 

 lower reach a foot in length, but the upper only one inch and a 

 half to two inches, all of them furnished with close brown-black 

 horny teeth down the edge. Flowers in a dense oblong head three 

 inches long, two inches in diameter. Flower-bracts deltoid-cuspi- 

 date, with close large black horny teeth down the edge, the 

 uppermost as long as the calyx, the lower quite an inch long. 

 Calyx with ovary three-quarters of an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, 

 minutely cuspidate, longer than the ovary. Petals not seen. — 

 South Brazil, in the province of St. Paulo on the Serra de Cubatao, 

 Bnrchell, 3594 ! (Herb. Kew.) 



50. ^ . MUCRONiFLORA, HooJx. m Bot. Mag., t. 4832. — Hoplophytum 

 mucronijiorum , Beer, Brom., 13-1. Hohenhergia mucroidjiora, Baker 

 in Eef. Bot., sub. t. 284. — Leaves horny in texture, above a foot 

 long, with a dilated entu-e deltoid base two to three inches broad, 

 and a lorate lamina one inch and a half broad, rounded at the tip 

 to a small cusp, the lower teeth horny, one-eighth to one- 

 sixth of an inch long, the upper ones minute. Scape half a foot 

 long, with many lanceolate toothed bract-leaves one inch and a half 

 to two inches long, the upper ones tinted red. Flowers in a dense 

 oblong spike three to four inches long, one inch and a half in 

 diameter, which is simple or slightly compound at the base. 

 Flower-bract half as long as the calyx, roundish, very obtuse, with 

 a distinct cusp. Ovary including calyx three -eighths of an inch 

 to half an inch long ; sepals lanceolate, with a large brown cusp. 

 Petals bright yellow, cuspidate, half an inch long. — Demerara, at 

 Kaieteur Falls, Apjnni ! Introduced into English gardens m 1855, 

 by Sir Henry Barkly, when Governor of the colony. 



51. M. LiNDENi, K. Koch, Wochen. 1865, 398. — Hoplophijtuin 

 Lindeni, E. Morren, Belg. Hort., 1873, 81, t. 5. — Leaves about 

 twenty in a rosette, with a dilated utricular entire oblong base 

 three inches broad and a lorate horny lamina two to three feet long, 

 one inch and a half to two inches broad, channelled all down the 

 face, minutely toothed, rounded at the tip to a small cusp. Scape 

 one foot to one and a half foot long, with m,any small adpressed 

 lanceolate bract-leaves. Flowers in a dense oblong head two to 

 three inches long, one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half 

 in diameter. Flower-bracts membranous, reddish, the lower 

 lanceolate, acute, as long as the calyx, the upper shorter, oblong, 

 obtuse, with a cusp. Ovary including calyx half an inch long ; 

 sepals round-deltoid, obtuse, with an oblique cusp. Petals lemon- 

 yellow, twice as long as the sepals. — Sant Catherina, South Brazil ; 

 discovered by M. Libon, to whom we are indebted for the intro- 

 duction of many Brazilian species. Introduced into cultivation in 

 1864 ; drawn for the 'Botanical Magazine' from a specimen that 

 flowered at Kew this winter, presented by Mr. J. T. Peacock, but 



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