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with a red-brown blade f in. long and a more concave claAv with 

 dense purplish black dots. Stamnial column as long as the claw 

 of the perianth-segments. Style-arms red-purple, bifid upwards. 

 Hab. Cjntral Mexico. IntroLiucod into cultivation by Hartweg. 



8. T. ATRATA Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 13G, lleKtmiia 

 atnita Herb, in Bot. Reg. 1843. Misc. 72. — Corni ovoid-oblong. 

 Leaves plicate, lanceolate, the lower 12-15 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad 

 at the middle. Stem 2 ft. long, bearing 2-3 reduced leaves. 

 Spathe 2^ in. long. Perianth 1^ in. long ; outer segments with an 

 orbicular purplish brown blade and a pale greeu claw, densely and 

 minutely dotted witli purplish brown ; inner segments shorter, with 

 a narrower claw, the blade pale, with a brown-purple tip. Anthers 

 and column each ^ in. long. Style-arms bifid upwards. 



Hab. Mexico ; mines of Ileal del Monte. Introduced into cultivation in 

 1843. 



8. Hydrot.enia Lindl. 



Perid nth -tnhe none; limb campanulate ; segments not spread- 

 ing at the tip, the inner quadrate and obscurely cordate at th(3 base, 

 with a short broad claw. Filaments united in a cylindrical column, 

 as long as the ascending anthers. Ooary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules 

 many, superposed ; style subulate, its three forks cut to the base into 

 three flattened divisions, the central one small. Capsule oblong. 

 Differs from Tujridia by the campanulate perianth. 



1. H. Meleagris Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxviii. t. 39. — Stem 

 slender, terete, 1-lieaded, 1| ft. long, bearing at the middle a single 

 linear plicate leaf. Spathe 2 in. long; outer valve green, lanceo- 

 late, large and clasping; pedicels cernuous. Perianth permanently 

 campanulate, about an inch in diameter, the segments nearly equal 

 in length, margined with yellow, the outer purple outside, all 

 whitish inside, with small purple spots, the inner with a shining 

 broad deltoid watery band above the base. 



Hab. Mexico ; mines of Real del Monte. Introduced by Mr. John Ilogers 

 of Sevenoaks, in 1838. 



2. H. lobata Herb, in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. No. G3.— Leaves 

 linear, green, plicate, a foot long. Stem a foot or more long. 

 Spathes 2 in. long ; pedicels erect. Perianth yellowish ; outer 

 segments oblong-cuneate, with a claw i in. broad and a blade \ in. 

 broad, closely spotted with brown at the base ; inner segments 

 narrower, dotted with brown at the base, furnished with a trans- 

 verse band above it and above this pruinose with hyaline globules. 

 Staminal column % in. long. Style-branches yellow, bifid upwards. 



Hab. Peru ; hills above Lima. Sent by Mr. J. Maclean to Herbert, who 

 llowered it at Spofforth in 1844. 



3. H. Van-Houttei Baker. Tif/ridia I Van-Hotittei Roezl in 

 Flore des Serres t. 2174. Bealonia Van-Houttci Klatt. — Stem 2-3 

 ft. long, bearing 2-3 heads. Leaves distantly superposed; lanceo- 

 late, very plicate, the lower a foot long, an inch broad at the 



