(456) 
Calathea (dAZonostiche) stromanthifolia sp. nov. 
Glabrous except for a light scurfiness upon the base of the bracts 
and under the lens a minute puberulence upon the ze sur- 
faces; petioles 1-1.5 dm. long, broad; blades 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 
0.7-1 dm. broad, obovate, blunt or rounded at the oS very 
abruptly, very shortly and acutely pointed, pale, thin, the principal 
secondaries having between them about 25 exceedingly fine nerves 
he 
midrib very strong and broad; peduncle (but one seen) light-yellow, 
about 2 cm. long, rather slender, deflexed; head 5-6 cm. long and 
nearly as broad, about 12-18-flowered; bracts 3-4.5 cm. long. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. (Vo. 2009.) 
CANNA PEDUNCULATA Rosc. ; Sims, Bot. Mag. Al. 2723. ‘* Grows 
2-6 ft. high, in wet clay, the flowers yellow.” Coripata, Sep- 
tember 5, 1894. (lVo. 2473.) 
Canna Britton Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 695. 1902. (Vo. 
2417.) The same as Rusby 2857. 
Hericonia rostraTa R. & P. FI. Per. 3: 71. pl. p05. (No. 
2508.) 
BROMELIACEAE 
Aechmea boliviana sp. nov. 
ames scurfy; stems slender, rigid, height unknown; leaves 4— 
6 dm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, linear, narrowed towa rd the base, 
which is much-dilated and sheathing, attenuate at the apex, spiny- 
toothed, the teeth about 2 mm. lon divergent, stoutish, the leaf 
late, 2~4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, strai 
oblong, obtusish. (Specimen without number or duplicates 
Aechmea involucrata sp. nov. 
Minutely scurfy, the younger portions somewhat floccose; stems 
very stout, about 4 dm. long in my spe oo a resents in an 
erect, closely sheathing leaves, which are 1-4 g, 3-5 ¢ 
broad, lanceolate, the outer successively ene a aes ae 
outermost broadly ovate, all very strongly nerved, thick and rigid, 
pungently spine-pointed, the spines dark-purple, the pe pun- 
gently spiny-toothed, the teeth 2-3 mm. long, stout, strongly up- 
curved; spike 2 dm. long, 5 cm. broad, very densely- flowered, 
