﻿Griggs: Some new species of Bihai 329 



at the base, green and glabrous: inflorescence erect, glabrous, 

 peduncle of variable length, rachis somewhat flexuose, internodes 

 about 15 mm. long, bracts few, the lowest fertile one scarcely 

 10 cm. long, the upper about 6 cm., all about 15 mm. wide, 

 narrowly lanceolate, obtuse or some of them acute, particolored, 

 upper half bright crimson fading into greenish yellow below; 

 flowers few, bracteoles about 20 X 7 mm., early deciduous, peri- 

 anth 25-30 mm. long, posterior sepal red, fading into orange on 

 the edges and tip, conspicuously spotted with black at the tip, 

 lateral sepals free, red, petals two, sometimes with the rudiment 

 of a third, red, fading into green on the tip, pedicels 10-15 mrn, long. 

 [Plate 19.] 



Jamaica: Leicesterfield, Upper Clarendon, W. Harris 10841, 

 February 28, 1910; with the field note, "1,800 ft. alt. An erect 

 growing plant with reed like stems up to 12 feet high, basal third 

 of stems leafless, lower half of bracts orange yellow, upper half 

 bright crimson, rhizome stout, creeping, flowers scarlet, tipped 

 with green and white." (Type in the herbaria of the Ohio State 

 University and the New York Botanical Garden ; also cultivated 

 in Hope Gardens, Jamaica.) "Jamaica, Wilson"\ in Herb. Gray. 



In addition to the information contained on the label Mr. 

 Harris has favored me with a letter describing the habitat of the 

 plant in greater detail as follows: "With regard to the new species 

 from the Upper Clarendon I might say that it is fairly plentiful — 

 usually in light shade but sometimes in the open. When growing 

 in shade or partial shade the stems are usually twice as high as 

 those growing in open situations. The most luxuriant clumps 

 I saw were growing in partial shade near the edges of small streams, 

 whilst plants in the open were yellowish in appearance and did 

 not look happy. It is evidently a shade and moisture-loving plant. 



"I saw some old stems this year that were fully 2 or 3 feet 

 higher than the specimens measured by me last year, and it would 

 be correct to give the height as 'up to 12 feet or over' and the 

 habitat might be given as the 'upper reaches of the Rio Minho 

 Valley, Upper Clarendon, 1,200 to 2,000 feet altitude.' " 



It is a great pleasure to be able to associate with this beautiful 

 species the name of so able and indefatigable a botanist as William 



A dried specimen of B. Harrisiana would not ordinarily be 

 flistinguished from B. hirsuta cannoidea but in w-ell dried material 



