06 KEPOKT ON TAVO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FEOM 



BROMELIACBiE. 



Bkocchinia redtjcta, Baker, in Journ. of Bot. xx. (1882), p. 331 ; Baker, Handh. 

 Brom. p. 88 ; Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. ix. p. 341. (Plate 12.) 

 Boraima Range, 3500 ft., McConnell §• Quelch, 702. — -Also found ou the Kaieteur 

 Savannah, Jenman, 873. 



Puya floccosa, E. Morren, in Belg. Hort, xxxv. (1878), p. 81 ; Mez, in DC. Monog. 

 Phan. ix. p. 478. 



P. guianensis, Klotzscb, in R. Schorab. Reisen in Brit. -Guiana, iii. p. 1067. 



P. sp., Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887), p. 285. 



Boraima Bange, 3500 ft., McConnell §f Quelch, 701. — h\%o in Venezuela, Colombia, 

 and Bolivia. 



Connellia, N. E. Brown, gen. nov. 



Plores hermaphroditi, regulares. Sepala libera, oblonga. Petala libera, lata, basi 

 angustata, nuda, sepalis multo longiora. Stamina petalis breviora et iis basi breviter 

 adnata, filamentis filiformibus, autheris oblongis basifixis. Ovarium superum, trigo- 

 num, loculis multiovulatis ; stylus elongatus ; stigmata linearia. Capsula in carpellis 

 3 septicide separata, carpellis introrsum dehiscentibus. Semina numerosa, parva, 

 linearia, utrinque appendiculata. — Herboe habitu Tillandsiee. Eolia rosulata, integra 

 vel basi denticulata. Inflorescentia terminalis, spiciformis, simplex vel composita. 

 Elores sub quaque bractea solitarii vel plures, pedicellati. 



Connellia Augusts, N. E. Brown. (Plate 13.) Capsula 6-7 lin. longa, 3 lin. diam., 



trigona, oblonga, coriacea, glabra, in carpellis 3 septicide soluta, carpellis longe 



rostratis introrsum dehiscentibus. Semina lf-2 lin. longa, lineari-teretia, curvata, 



utrinque membranaceo-appendiculata. — Encholirium Augusta', B. H. Schomb. in Verb. 



des Ver. Beford. Gartenb. in Preuss. (1S46), p. 18, t. 2; in Bot. Zeitung (1846), 



p. 454 ; B. Schomb. Reisen in Brit. -Guiana, ii. p. 271, and iii. p. 1067 ; & in Bot. 



Bern. Brit. Guiana, p. 77 ; De Beer, Brom. p. 27. Caraguata Augusta', Benth. 



& Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 668. Dyckia Augusta, Baker, Handb. Brom. p. 135. 



Puya Augusta, Mez, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ix. p. 487, partim. 



Summit of Mount Boraima, 8600 ft., McConnell 8f Quelch, 670. South slopes of 



Boraima at 6500 ft., Schomburgk, 687, 1021. 



The discovery of fruiting specimens of this plant by Messrs. McConnell & Quelch 

 demonstrates that it cannot properly be referred to either of the genera under which it 

 has previously been placed. Erom Encholirion it differs totally in habit, large bracts, 

 broad petals, and seeds. Erom Caraguata it differs in its free petals and in its seeds. 

 Erom Dyckia it differs in habit, in the long-beaked entire (not bifid) carpels into which 

 the ripe fruit sejmrates, and in its seeds. And from Puya it differs in habit, in the petals 

 not twisting when the flower fades, in the capsule not dehiscing loculicidally, and in the 

 seeds. The only genus which approaches it in structure is Lindmania, Mez, but the 

 habit, branching panicle, small bracts and very small flowers of the species of Lindmania 



