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broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to the acute point, 
hardly at all lepidote on either surface, concolorous; panicle lax, 
deltoid; spikes dense, distichous, sessile or shortly peduncled, 
about 74 ft. long, 114 in. broad; lower branch-bracts with a long 
green lanceolate point; upper short, scarious, red; flower-bracts 
long, 34 in. broad, with a deltoid acute tip; calyx glabrous, as 
long as the flower-bracts ; d of the petal oblong, very small; 
stamens shorter than the pet 
Nearly allied to the Cove TF Kalbreyeri Baker, Handb. 
Bromel. 28. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1283). (Dr. Mez regards this as 7. ae 
ulata Ch. & Sch.) 
HAEMODORACEAE. 
Xiphidium floribundum Swz. Prod, Veg. Ind. Occ. 1717. Espmto 
Santo, 1891 (1280). 
IRIDEAE. 
Cypella Peruviana Baker, Bot. Mag. sub. pl. 6275. Vic. Cocha- 
bamba, 1891 (1157). Vic. Sorata, May, 1892 (1318) — Speci- 
mens by Pentland, not Mandon's 1223. 
CYPELLA MANDONI sp. n. 
Glabrous ; gue Mpeg. ien lanceolate, purple, conspicu- 
ously nerved ; m. or more high, very ig mp at 
the base; bu Tehy sh eathing. grass-like, about m. wide 
strongly channelled, acute, iie i the stem ; seeded pa ioe 
stout, erect, I-1.5 dm. long; spathes 2, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
about 4 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, green, very finely many-nerved ; 
bracts scarious, as. broad as the spathes and slightly exceeding 
them; flowers 4 or 5, completely exserted, blue, nearly 3 cm. long, 
the triquetrous ovary 5 mm?long; capsule (immature) green, tipped 
with a short conical broad brown point 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1077). The same as Mandon’s no. 
1223, but not the same as Pentland’s. In Herb. Kew. Mandon’s 
specimen is doubtfully referred to C. Peruviana, but the width of 
leaves, size of spathe and color of flowers show that it is distinct. 
Nemastylis nana Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 160. Near snow- 
line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1042) — Type in Herb. Kew., also (?) 
Mandon's 1224. 
