GRIGGS: NEW SPECIES OF AMERICAN WILD BANANAS 447 
nodes 2~6 cm.; bracts many, 27 in the type, all but the last one 
reflexed, ovate, acute, varying from 7 cm. long at the tip to 16 
cm. at the base and from 5—8 cm. wide, tomentose on the outside, 
at least near the base, and densely ferruginous-pubescent within : 
flowers almost as long as the branch-bracts pina at the base of 
the inflorescence, flower-bracts triangular, cm. broad, 5 cm. 
long, densely velvety pubescent on the pase: glabrous within. 
El Pez, road from Buena Vista to San Carlos Valley, Costa 
Rica, Cook & Collins 47, photo 5459. 
The present species is closely related to &. Collinstana, and 
probably more closely to B. pendula. From the former it is dis- 
tinct in the hairy inflorescence, twice or three times as long, the 
stouter rachis, the ovate rather than lanceolate branch-bracts. 
From &. pendula it differs in being fully twice as large, in the 
very glaucous, not green, leaves, in the hairy not glabrous, 
broader, branch-bracts. 
