104 MUSACEAE. 



Heliconia brasiliensis Hook. Exot. Flora p. 190 



Surinam River, near Kofffiedjompo : Versteeg 517 (fl. June). 



Para River, near Osembo: Focke 577 named: Heliconia Richardiana 



Miq. in sched. 

 Surinam: Splitgerber H. L. B. 905, 88—123 named: Heliconia 



flavescens Splitg. c. descript. 

 Northern Brazil, French Guyana. 



Heliconia psittacorum Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 198. 



Paramaribo: Tulleken 127 H. L. B. 903, 322 — 1481 (fl. Aug.) 

 Lower Surinam River, near Jagtiust : Tulleken 98 H. L. B. 903, 



322 — 1377 .fl. July); Went 56 (fl Aug.) 

 Para district near Savanne Kompas : Went 376 (fl. Sept.) 

 Surinam: Splitgerber 40 H. L. B. 905, 88 — 119 (fl. Nov.); Focke 

 1360 (fl. Octob.); Tulleken 83 H. L B. 903, 322 — 1362; Split- 

 gerber H. L. B. 905, 88-126, named: Heliconia inaequalis Splitg. 

 in sched. c. descript.; van Hall 94; Wullschlagel 522 and 594; 

 HosTMANN 972 ex Petersen 1. c. 23. 

 Vernacular name: »Popokaitongo" (Parrot's tongue). 

 All tropical South-America. 



Heliconia hirsuta Linn. f. Suppl. 158. 



var. a cannoidea (L. C. Rich.) Baker. Ann. of Bot. VII. 197. 



Heliconia cannoidea L. C. Rich. Nova Acta Acad. nat. cur. XV. suppl. 

 t. 9 et 10. 

 Lower Saramacca River, near Mindrinetti: Pulle 40 (fl. Nov.) 

 Surinam: Voltz without number in Hb. Rheno-Traject. 

 All tropical South-America. 



