﻿Griggs: Some new species of Bihai 325 



bracted Bihai borinquena is common in Jamaica along with the 

 red-fruited variety. This Jamaican plant differs but slightly 

 from the Porto Rican type. From it, thanks to formalin specimens 

 and very beautiful colored drawings made by Mr. Harris's 

 assistant, Miss H. A. Wood, I am able to describe the flower which, 

 by a typographical error, was stated to be ii cm. long in the 

 original description: 



Flowers about fifteen, bracteoles yellow, firm when fresh, ovate- 

 triangular, enveloping the flower; ovulary yellow, perianth 6 cm. 

 long, white below, green on the exposed tips, bent somewhat 

 toward the posterior sepal, with a conspicuous subgibbous expan- 

 sion on the anterior side, filaments conspicuously bent into the 

 expansion, perianth segments free above but partially fused below, 

 staminode about 3 cm. long, reaching to the bend in the filaments; 

 berry dark blue, 10 X 13 mm., pedicel stout, fleshy, ringed, about 

 25 mm. long at maturity, seed 10 X 4 mm., tubercled, horny. 



Bihai stricta (Huber) comb. nov. 

 Heliconia stricta Huber, Bol. Mus. Goeldi 4: 543. 1906. 



Type locality: "Esta especie 6 bastante frequente nas fraldas 

 do Cerro de Couchahuya; ella e cultivado no horto botanico do 

 Museu Goeldi." 



Bihai stricta is evidently closest to B. hiimilis but differs in the 

 much wider branch-bracts. 



Bihai adflexa sp. nov. 



Plant of .medium size, leaves 60-80 cm. long, 15-20 cm. wide, 

 oblong, narrowed to the base, tip not seen, green and glabrous on 

 both sides, main veins prominent, 5-7 mm. apart: inflorescence 

 deltoid, stiffly erect, peduncle apparently elongated, about 8 mm. 

 in diameter, glabrous, rachis stiffly zigzag, puberulent, middle in- 

 ternodes about 15 mm. long, bracts twelve in the type, all ascend- 

 ing, scarlet, somewhat puberulent on the back, narrow, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, revolute, little concave, strongly bent upward 

 near the base, whence the name, middle bracts about 7 cm. long, 

 scarcely 2 cm. wide, the upper much smaller, the lower much 

 larger: flowers numerous, bracteoles persistent, 4X1 cm., with a 

 thin evanescent pubescence both within and without; perianth 4 

 cm. long, sparingly pubescent like the bracteoles, sepals free, 

 corolla limb three toothed. [Text fig. 5.] 



Guatemala: Coban, altitude 1,600 m., in deep forest, June 



