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branches strongly hollowed on the side next the flower, with no- 
dose axils; outer bractlets indigo-blue, at least when young, 1.5-3 
cm. long, 3-5 mm. broad in the folded condition, very finely many- 
nerved, acute or obtuse, when opened 1-1.5 cm. broad, oval, the 
inner colorless, hyaline and successively smaller; bud 6-7 mm. 
long; flowers very short-pedicelled, the brown ovary 1 mm. long, 
turbinate, truncate, strongly tuberculate, the tubercles in IO rows; 
sepals similar to the inner scales, 7 mm. long, 4.5 mm. broad, oval, 
elliptical; petals purple-blue, 6 mm. long, 2-5 mm. broad; lip 5 
mm. broad, triangular-obovate, irregularly about 5-lobed, one 
lobe yellow, antheroid, the inner face at one edge appendaged 
with a thick gland; anther oval-oblong, 1 mm. long, its filament 
posteriorly appendaged near the summit with two membranaceous 
oblong lobes; stigma thickened, cupulate, oblique, its style muc 
flattened. 
Songo, Noy. 1891 (874). 
Heliconia hirsuta L. f., var. cannoidea (Richard) Baker, Annals of 
Botany, 7: 197. Vungas, 1890 (411). 
BROMELIACEAE.* 
Pitcairnia consimilis Baker, Journ. Bot. 19: 269 (1881). Vic. La 
Paz, 10,000 ft. 1890 (152)—Rusby’s 2847. 
Pitcairnia (Puyopsis) sp. near P. coerulea Benth. Songo, Nov, 
1890 (892). 
Pitcairnia (Phlomostachys) sp. near P. Funkiana Regel. Yungas, 
1890 (592). 
Tillandsia usneoides L. Sp. Pl. 287. Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft. 1889 
(107). : 
Tillandsia propinqua Gay, Fl. Chile, 6: 15. Vic. La Paz, 10,000 
ft. 1889 (123). 
Tillandsia .sphaerocephala Baker, Journ. Bot. 26: 141 (1888). Vic. 
Paz, 10,000 ft. 1889 (159). 
Tittanpsia (PrATYSTACHYS) BoLiviensis Baker sp. n. 
Foliis dense rosulatis, e basi ovata lineari-acuminatis, dorso 
dense albido-lepidotis, pedunculo brevi, spica simpli oblonga, 
bracteis floralibus ovato-navicularibus glabris, calyce bractea paulo 
breviori sepalis lanceolatis glabris dorso convexis. 
Folia 6-8 poll. longa, bractea 12-15 lin. longa. Vic. La Paz, 
10,000 ft. 1890 (159a). Near T. canescens Sw. and T. achyrosta- > 
chys E. Morren. 
* Kindly determined by Mr. J. G. Baker. — 
EM. Torr. Bor, Crus, Vol. IV., Part 3, Sig. 5, April 17, 1895. 
