﻿320 Griggs: Some new species of Biha 



Bihai densa sp. nov. 

 Plant of medium size, petiole 70 cm. long, leaf 80 cm. long, 

 30 cm. wide, acute, subcordate at the base, thin and tough, main 

 veins 5-10 mm. apart, green and glabrous except the midrib and 

 petiole which are pilose with projecting ferruginous hairs about 

 I mm. in length; inflorescence erect (?), 18 cm. high, half as wide, 

 oblong, nearly i cm. thick (dry), nearly glabrous, peduncle 20 cm. 

 long in the type, somewhat shriveled but i cm. thick, rachis nearly 

 straight, concealed, except at the very base, stiff; bracts ascending, 

 fifteen in the type, scarlet, thick and firm, shriveling little, broadly 

 ovate, rostrate, inclined to be involute at the tips, the lowest 

 standing somewhat apart, the rest closely imbricated, middle 



