﻿324 Griggs: Some new species of Bihai 



base, green and glabrous on both sides; inflorescence pendent, less 

 than 20 cm. long in the type, 10-12 cm. wide, exposed portion of 

 the peduncle less than 10 cm. long, slender, about 5 mm. in diam- 

 eter, softly puberulent with light brown hair, rachis strongly flex- 

 uose in smooth curves, stiff, minutely puberulent, internodes about 

 25 mm. long, bracts eight in the type, all reflexed, scarlet with yel- 

 low margins, somewhat puberulent, shallowly boat-shaped, ovate- 

 lanceolate when flattened out, gradually narrowed to an obtuse tip, 

 those in the middle of the inflorescence 8-9 cm. long, 4 cm. wide; 

 flowers rather numerous, the younger pushing the ripening fruit 

 out beyond the edges of the branch bracts, bracteoles 60 X 15 mm., 

 triangular-lanceolate, very acute, pubescent on the back, persistent 

 in fruit, perianth 5 cm. long, curved toward the larger sepal, lipped, 

 sepals all free, corolla limb three-toothed, middle tooth somewhat 

 smaller than the others, pedicel about 15 mm. long in fruit, berry 

 (apparently ripe) oblong, 15 mm. long, half as wide. [Text 

 fig. 4.] 



Panama: Marraganti and vicinity, 3-60 m. altitude, April 3-9, 

 1908, R. S. Williams 6g6. Type in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Bihai barqueta (Loes) comb. nov. 

 Heliconia barqueta Loes, Verh. Bot. Verein. Brandenburg 51 : 

 18. 1909. "Mexico in prov. Vera Cruz in distr. Jalapa ad 

 fluvii ripam. in coffeeto Sel. n. 3609 Flor. Dec." 

 Closest to B. Chatnpneiana from which it differs in the rose- 

 colored inflorescence whose bracts are more distant than in that 

 species. While this plant would appear to be safely distinct from 

 B. Chatnpneiana the relations found to exist between the orange 

 and red bracted forms in Jamaica (see below) makes it desirable 

 to have information concerning the flower characters not furnished 

 by the description since recent studies have shown that these 

 characters have great diagnostic value. 



Bihai borinquena coccinea Griggs & Harris, var. nov. 



Closely similar to B. borinquena in the floral parts but differing 

 in the brilliant scarlet-crimson bracts which are numerous and 

 somewhat narrower than in the typical form of the species. 



Jamaica: cultivated at Hope Gardens, W. Harris. Pressed 

 specimens in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



It is of interest to add in this connection that the orange- 



