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Helic onia continued. 



Heliconia continued. 



FIG. 205. HELICODICEROS CRINITUS, showing Habit and Young Unopened Spathe. 



FIG. 206. HELICONIA BICOLOR, showing Hahit and 

 separate Inflorescence. 



H. tricolor (two-coloured), fl. white, tipped with greenish; 

 ovaries and spathes scarlet. /. long-stalked, gracefully arching. 

 Brazil. See Fig. 206. (B. G. 172.) 



fl. red or orange -colour. July and August. 



, ovate-lanceolate, some of which are slightly 

 West Indies, 1786. A hand- 



H. Bihai (Biha 

 I. on long peti 



curved towards the edges, h. 12ft. TTCOI/ jmuco, aw. **. 

 some and graceful foliage plant. See Fig. 207. (B. R. 374.) 



H. brevispatha (short-spathed). /. white ; spike short, of not 

 more than four or five orange-red spathes, of which the inferior 

 one is flowerless ; the rest are much smaller and gradually shorter 

 upwards. Summer. I. oblong, rather obtuse at the base, much 

 acuminated at the apex, quite glabrous; petioles short, h. 3ft. 

 South America, 1861. A very singular plant. (B. M. 5416.) 



H. humilis (humble). /. whitish-green, sessile ; spathes five to 

 seven, broadly boat-shaped, many-flowered, scarlet. I. oblong, 

 acute at both ends ; petioles long, exceeding the scape. Guiana, 

 1867. (B. M. 5613.) 



H. metallica (metallic). I. elegantly drooping and recurved, 

 broadly lanceolate ; central rib, margins, and curving veins of a 

 dark bronzy-red, which is also the colour of the under surface ; 

 petioles distichous, bronzy-red. New Grenada, 1862. (B. M. 

 &15.) 



H. psittacomm (parrot-beaked).* /. orange, in clusters upon 

 short peduncles, within a lanceolate spathe. August. I. smooth, 

 shining, alternate, lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, many-nerved ; 

 footstalks membranous, sheathing the stem. Stem polished, 

 straight, round; upper part naked; lower part clothed with 

 leaves, h. 8ft. (in cultivation, 3ft). Jamaica, 1797. A beautiful 

 plant. (B. M. 502.) 



H. trinmphans (triumphant).* I. oblong-acute, dark green, picked 

 out with narrow blackish stripes running from the midrib to the 

 margin at distant intervals. Introduced to Europe from Sumatra, 

 in 1883 (but probably of New World origin). (G. C. n. s., xix., 

 p. 566.) 



