﻿Griggs: Some 



SPECIES OF BiHAI 



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bracts 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 cm. wide, widest near the base; flowers 

 about a dozen to a bract, only their tips visible, bracteoles delicate, 

 30 X 12 mm., flower very small, perianth 20-25 mm., sepals 

 pubescent, thick, indurated at the tips, the posterior 2-3 mm. 

 longer than the other floral parts, petals 3, pedicels finally about 

 12 mm., berries 9 mm. in diameter (dry) concealed within the 

 bracts. [Text fig. i.] 



Panama: around Dos Bocas, Rio Fato Valley, province of 

 Colon, altitude 40-80 m., in dark shady forest, August 16, 191 1, 

 H. Pittier. Type in National Herbarium, sheet 678445. 



Bihai densa is nearest B. punicea from which it differs especially 

 in the shape and color of the bracts, and the flower characters. 

 The only one of the previously known species which could be 

 mistaken for either is B. imbricata. 



Bihai punicea sp. nov. 

 Plant of medium size, leaf about i m. long, 25 cm. wide, green 

 and glabrous, acute; inflorescence pendent, deltoid, about 12 cm. 

 wide, a little longer, peduncle 30 cm. long, 7 mm. thick (dry), 



