﻿330 Griggs: Some xew species of Bihai 



it is evident that the scarlet of the ends of the bracts does not 

 extend below the middle. The leaves, too, are larger and more 

 broadly oval than in any of the specimens of the variety cannoidea 

 (or related species) which have come under my observation while 

 the stature far exceeds anything else recorded in the Cannoideae. 



Bihai hirsuta (L.f.) comb. nov. 

 fl"e/icowia Mr5«^a L.f. Suppl. 158. 1781. 



Type locality: "Habitat in America Meridionali." 



Imperfectly known species 

 The following species have also been described recently, but the 

 descriptions given are so lacking in diagnostic characters as to 

 make it inadvisable to assign them places in the key : 



Heliconia robusta Pax; Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. 7: 107. 1909 

 Type locality: "Bolivien Walder um San Carlos bei Mapiri 



700 m. (Buctien n. 1267 flowered July 1907)." 



This plant is evidently one of the Pendulae but the description 



is inadequate either to differentiate it from previously described 



species or to identify it with them. 



Heliconia Pearcei Rusby, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 6: 494. 1910 



"Probably at Santa Ana" (Bolivia). 



Said to be "about intermediate between H. psittacornu 

 [psittacorum] and H. brasiliensis:' From the description, however, 

 it would appear almost identical wit! 



Harrisiana Grij 



