leaves and bracts very long, deep crimson, apparently not scurfy, and a spike distinctly branched ; the corolla being 
long* r and white-edged : this we would call T. erythrcea ; we have the same species from Para. A fourth, T. eminens, is 
a St. Domingo plant, with the leaves much shorter than the spike, which is leafless, branched, and composed of numerous 
two-ranked crimson-keeled naked bracts; it may be compared to T. polystachya, although very different. A fifth is from 
Para, and is readily distinguished by a peculiar lumpish habit, an abundance of very coarse loose scurfs, spreading up 
to the very points of the outer bracts, which are not coloured, and a nearly simple spike sessile among the leaves, which, 
nevertheless, scarcely overtop it ; this may be named T. pumila. For the convenience of our scientific readers, we put 
these distinctions into technical language : 
Folia radical ia basi dilatata bulbum simulantia. 
T. inanis ; scapo foliis breviore, 
inferioribus omnibus inanibus, 
purpureis 
■Buenos Ayres. 
211. T. bulbosa (Hook. Exot. H, t. 173); scapo 
bracteis herbaceis arete lepidotis. — Trinidad. 
212. T. erythrcea (alias T. bulbosa picta Hooker, I 
foliis breviore, spica aphylla basi ramosa. 
Mag 
infimis 
scapo foliis breviore, 
Jamaica; Para. 
213. T. eminens; scapo foliis altiore, spica aphylla ramos&, bracteis nudis coccineis distichis 
carinatis apice uncinatis. — St. Domingo. The inflorescence is almost that of a branched Yriesia. 
214. T.pumila; scapo inter folia sessili, spica subsimplici aphylla, bracteis herbaceis coriaceis 
ventricosis laxissime lepidotis. — Para. Takes of the fruit stra 
pitch black, as in T. erythrcea. 
