cypELi^A, 68 



bearing a few long-pedunclerl clustera some distance below th 

 summit. Spathes narrowly cylindrical, 1^ in. long. Expanded 

 flower 2 in. diam. ; outer segments bright yellow, obovate, with 

 about 5 transverse bars of red-brown on the claw ; inner segments 

 with a whitish barred tip. Style-crests 3, large, lanceolate. 



Hab. South Brazil. Described by Dean Herbert from a plant that flowered 

 at Spofforth about 1840. . ^ ' 



9. M. HUMiLis Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. • 100! - . Ci/pella humilis Klatt. 

 — Leaves ensiform, 1-1^ ft. long, 1-1^ in. broad. Peduncle flat, 

 overtopping the leaves, with a short fork a short distance below its 

 apex. Spathes l^in. long. Expanded flower 2 in. in diam. ; outer 

 segments obovate, yellowish white, with about 4 transverse bars of 

 red-brown on the claw ; inner with a reflexed blue tip. Style with 

 8 lanceolate crests. 



Hab. South Brazil. Originally described from a plant flowered by Loddiges 

 about 1895. 



10. M. BULBOSA Klatt, Erganz. 40. — Eootstock slightly tuberous, 

 with brown tunics, breaking up into parallel fibres. Leaves linear, 

 under a foot long. Stem 4-10 in. long, not winged below, ending 

 in a linear leaf. Clusters of flowers 1-2 ; spathes under an inch 

 long. Expanded flower above an inch in diam. ; outer segments 

 obovate, yellow, with pale red-brown bars on the claw, ^ in. broad; 

 inner as long, but rather narrower. Style-crests 3, yellow, 



Hab. Central Brazil ; first gathered by Martins. 



11. M. Martii Baker. — Eootstock slightly tuberous ; tunics 

 brown, rigid, splitting into parallel fibres. Leaves thick, rigid, 

 linear, 2 ft. long, ^ in. broad. Stem subterete towards the base, 

 ending above the inflorescence in a long rigid linear point. Spathes 

 long-peduncled, 2 in. long. Outer segments of the perianth obovate, 

 yellow, 1^ in. long ; inner half as long, with a small recurved apex. 



Hab. South Brazil, Sello ! Described from a specimen received from the 

 Berlin herbarium, marked by Klotzsch, ^' Cypellaflava Mart." 



5. Cypella Herb. 



Perianth-inhe obsolete ; segments of the two rows very dissimilar ; 

 outer obovate, spreading from the base ; inner much smaller, pan- 

 duriform, convolute. Stamens short, erect ; filaments distinct. 

 Ovary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style subulate 

 at the base, cyathiform upwards, the crests of its branches much 

 overtopping the stigmas. Capsule oblong, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, flattened by pressure, with a brown testa and horny 

 albumen. — Differs from Mariea by its terete stems, terminal single 

 or corymbose flower-clusters, and plicate leaves. 



Style-appendages spur-like Sp. 1-5. 



Style-appendages flat, petaloid (Hesperoxiphion Baker). Sp. 6-8. 



1. C. Herberti Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2637; Sweet, Brit. 

 Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 33. Tif/ridia Herberti Herb, in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2599. Moraa Herberti Lindl. in Bot, Eeg. t. 949. j\Jarie(( 



