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long leaves. Racemes 1-5, very lax, the end one a foot long, the 
axis cottony; pedicels ascending, }-} in; bracts lanceolate, 
equalling or a little exceeding the pedicels. Sepals 4-3 in. long, 
lanceolate, nearly naked. Petals an inch longer than the sepals, 
bright red, scaled at the base. Stamens and style not protruded.— 
St. Lucia, Anderson! New Granada, on rocks at Cumanacoa, 
Funk, 58! Well-known in cultivation. Introduced from the 
West Indies by Lady Amelia Hume about 1810. 
Var. major, Regel, Ind. Sem. Petrop. 1869, 24, has leaves 8 ft. 
long and an inch broad, peduncle longer than the leaves, and a 
rather dense aceme a foot long and two shorter side ones; 
axis stout, densely cottony ; pedicels erecto-patent, densely cottony, 
the lower }-} i g; bracts lanceolate, rahter longer th e 
thinly cottony; pedicels ascending, the lower 3— in. long ;_ bracts 
linear or lanceolate, }-1 in. long. Sepals naked, lanceolate, $ in. 
long. Petals lingulate, bright red or reddish yellow, 2-24 in. long, 
not sealed at the base. Stamens as long as the petals. Style a 
little exserted.—A native of Guatemala, introduced more than 
wenty years ago and still in cultivation in the country. I saw it 
in flower at Messrs. Veitch’s in 1874. Ss 
11s, Tenore in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, ii. 379,— Leaves 
the published description. , 
f . P. muscosa, Mart. in Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1240; 
Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4770.—P. Beycalena, Beer Brom. 63.— 
P. leiolena, Hort. Van Houtte. Whole plant not more than a foot 
high. Leaves 12-20 in a tuft, linear, 6-9 m. long, {-4 in. broad, 
faleate, very acuminate, green and naked on the face, _ white 
furfuraceous on the back, not petioled, entire or minutely denticulate. 
Pedunele 6-9 in. long, slender, densely floccose, its lower leaves 
