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long; spike short, dense, ascending, the lowest an inch 1 
lower branch-bracts ovate, with long points; flower-bracts ovate, 
4-§ in. = Calyx not eicleded beyond the bract. Corolla 
not 8 
Hiab South Brazil, Glaziou ae me 
grisea, n. sp.—Root-leaves not seen. oicnce 2 6-8 i ra 
gers ; bract-leaves few, with large oe clasping base 
setaceous penly.9 coriaceous densely lepidote free pointa pater 
down to the base. Inflorescence a panicle 3-6 in. long; spikes 
8-8, simple, dense, erecto-patent, 1—2 in. jong: } in. ‘broad ; lower 
tacts with large ovate clasping bases and long setaceous free 
g 
points; flower- Eats oblong, Soa acutely keeled, } in. long. 
Calyx reaching to the top of the bra Petals narrow, } in. long. 
Hab. Peru, near Lima, Cuming 08 ! Near 7. polystachya L. 
68. T. ancustiroLia Swartz, Prodr. 57; Fl. Ind. Oce. i. 596; 
Roem. et dap oer Syst. Veg. vii. 1216; Griseb. Flora Brit. West 
Ind. 595 ves 10-12 im a rosette ; ‘dilated base 8 in. long, an 
inch broad ; blade linear-subulate, convolute, 1-14 ft. long, } in. 
broad at the middle, finely lepidote on both surfaces. Peduncle 
much shorter than the leaves; bract-leaves with squarrose subulate 
free points. Spikes 8-8, dense, ascending, the central one 2-41 
long, } in. broad; flower- bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, ene 
reddish, 4-§ in. lo ong. Calyx reaching to the tip of the br 
Corolla tubular, violet, an inch longer than a calyx. Stam ens 
longer than the petals. Capsule an inch lon 
amaica, Swartz! oo alt. 3000 ft., Fendler 1258. 
fr 
ab. Jam 
British Honduras, wear ae om a living plant that 
flowered at Kew in A 
T. POLYSTACHYA ie S. ‘410; Lam. Encye. i. 18; Roem 
4, 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. i. 1216; Sagra, Fl. Cub. iii. 266; Griseb. i 
ub. 258.— Leaves densely rosulate ; dilated base 2-8 in. long, an 
eh broad ; blade line pai ee tapering into a long setaceous 
a little shorter thists the bract. Corolla violet, tubular, twice as long 
as the calyx. ore longer than the petals. Capsule-valves an 
inch long, 4 in. bro 
_ Hab. a Wright 1521! Jamaica, Wright! Purdie! Do- 
minica, Imray! Trinidad, Fendler 827! Porto Rico, Sintenis 2044! 
2170! 2188! Yucatan, Schoti 810! 894! Tabasco, F. P. Johnson! 
Maxatlan, Lieut. Stri ‘ckland! Less robust than 7. ee 
of which there is a good igure sm amongst his unpublished dra’ 
6 
fs Pe oe pg et Schultes, a vii. 1212; Griseb. 
Flora Brit. West Ind. 595; Sagra, Fl. Cub. ii. 267; E. Morren in 
Belg. Hort. 1879, 98, t. 6-7. — Leavy: ves many in a rosette, with 
