(457 ) 
obtuse; bracts, in sedate stage, nearly 1 cm. long, tipped by a 
stiff, slende er point 1 mm. long, many-ribbed, enclosing the base of 
the flower and the ee nearly meeting, rigid with a rather broad 
hyaline border; sepals 1.75 cm. long, ovate, short-acuminate, the 
acute apex slightly recurved-spreading ; petals exceeding the sepals 
by 5-7 mm., purple with darker veins, obovate with rounded sum- 
mit, core. semi-rigid; stamens a little sade than the a 
the filament hyaline-margined, the anther 4 mm. long; ovary 5 mm 
long, obovoid, truncate, tuberculate; style tonne rigid, 1.5 cm 
long, inclusive of the branches, which are3 mm. long. (Specimen 
without number or duplicates.) 
Pitcairnia biattenuata sp. nov. 
‘Younger portions scurfy-tomentose; stems 7-8 dm. long, slender, 
from a very stout base, dark-purple, terete; leaves proper all basal, 
3-5 dm. long, linear, broadest (about 3 cm.) above the middle, 
the lower portion very narrow, dark-purple, spiny-toothed, the 
teeth about 3 mm. long, divergent or slightly recurved, the very 
base of the leaf abruptly dilated into a very broad sheath; bracts of 
the stem lanceolate, rigid, closely sheathing, long-acuminate and 
spreading; calyx exceeding 2 cm., the tube nearly as broad as long, 
the segments tapering, Tigid, keeled; corolla twice the length of the 
as strongly recurv 
‘¢ A small plant eae ft. high, with red flowers, scarce in wet, 
clayey soil.” Coripata, Yungas, April 26, 1894. (Vo. 2755.) 
Pitcairnia sessiliflora sp. nov. 
Rather sparsely scurfy-tomentose; stems about 1 m. high, 
slender, terete, striate; leaves proper all basal, numerous, aes as 
long as the stem, broadest (about 1.5 cm.) above the middle, the 
lower portion involute and appearing as though terete, strongly 
uncinate-toothed, the teeth dark-purple, 1-2 mm. long, some leaves 
consisting only Ri these narrow, dark, toothed bases, others termi- 
nating in long setiform blades; stem bearing closely sheathing, 
lanceolate, acuminate and pungently pointed bracts 3-4 cm. long; 
flowers distantly spicate, the subtending bracts about 1 cm. long, 
broadly ovate, acuminate, pungent; calyx nearly 2 cm. long, the 
segments linear-lanceolate, rigid, very strongly keeled, and nerved, 
acute; corolla 7 cm. long, slender, yellow (?). (Specimen with- 
out number or duplicates. 
GuZzMANIA MONOSTACHYA (L.) Rusby; Mez, Mon. Brom. 905. 
(Wo. 1802.) The same as no. 1582. 
TILLANDSIA FLORIBUNDA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 292. (Specimen 
without number.) 
