﻿322 Griggs: Some new species of Bihai 



glabrous, rachis nearly straight, stiflf, glabrescent, concealed above 

 but visible below, bracts twenty-three in the type, mostly hori- 

 zontal, red-purple, covered with tawny hair, boat-shaped, ovate 

 when opened out, widest near the base, slightly arcuate, very 

 obtuse, except the lower, those from the middle of the inflorescence 

 about 5 cm. long, of the same breadth, the lowest 14 cm., the high- 

 est only about 1.5 cm.; flowers a little shorter than the bracts, less 

 numerous than in allied species, bracteoles ample, 40 X 25 mm., 

 obtuse and frayed at the tip, persistent, flowers curved up out of 

 the bracts toward the large sepal, perianth about 3 cm. long, lat- 

 eral sepals free, corolla limb tridentate, the middle tooth smaller 

 than the other two. [Text fig. 2.] 



Panama: between Gorgona and Gatun, altitude 10-50 m., 

 Smithsonian Biological Survey, January 7, 1911, H. Pittier 2290. 

 In National Herbarium, sheets 677161, 676544, 676545. 

 Bihai revoluta sp. nov. 

 Plant of medium size, leaf (known to me only from a sucker) 

 elliptical, 50 X 15 cm., acuminate, rounded to the slightly de- 

 current base, green and glabrous; inflorescence pendent, red, 

 rachis straight, flexible, internodes mostly about 3 cm. long, 

 covered with abundant evanescent ferruginous tomentum, bracts 

 numerous, horizontally divaricate, more or less tomentose at the 

 base, linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly concave, their margins con- 

 spicuously revolute soon after opening, middle ones about 12 cm. 

 long, 2 cm. wide: bracteoles persistent, about i X 5 cm., glabrous, 

 flowers rather numerous, pedicel and ovulary red, perianth yellow, 

 glabrous, about 5 cm. long, sepals thick, free, petals two (in the 

 type), shorter by 2-3 mm. and much more delicate than the sepals. 

 [Text fig. 3.] 



Colombia: Santa Marta, 1898-1901, B.. H. Smith 2315, with 

 the following field note: "Thickets and forest near streams, 3,500- 

 5,000 feet. Bract and pedicel red, flower yellow. Specimen is 

 from Manzanares, 3,500 feet, March i." Type in the herbarium 



