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again as the calyx ; blade Ungulate, spreading only at the tip* 

 Stamens and style a little longer than the calyx. Capsule-valves 

 lanceolate, an inch long. 



Var. catjlescens Baker. T. subulata Veil. Fl. Flum. iii. t. 197. 

 Diaphoranthema subulata Beer, Brom. 155. — Leaves crowded on a 

 produced stem, which is sometimes half a foot long, shorter, 

 thicker, and less acuminate than in the type. Spike less dense ; 

 flowers fewer. 



Hab. Southern and Central Brazil, Lesson, Gardner 696 ! 

 Miers 3493! Mosen 3258! Blanchetl Glaziou 11689! Paraguay, 

 Balansa 616 ! Tucuman, Catamarca and Oran, Lorentz ! Andes of 

 Bolivia, alt. 8000 ft., Mandon 1184 ! North Patagonia, Capt. 

 Middleton ! British Guiana, Im Thurn ! Jenman 1845 ! There is a 

 specimen without name in the herbarium of Linnaeus. /3. caulescens ; 

 Mountains of South Brazil, Miers 4610 ! Glaziou 8019 ! 15463 ! 

 15464! 16457! 16458! 



122. T. meridionalis, n. sp. — Acaulescent. Leaves like those 



of jT. Duratii, comparatively few in a rosette, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 half a foot long, narrowed gradually from the base to the apex, 

 ^ in. broad low down, channelled deeply all down the face, thick 

 and firm in texture, thinly persistently grey-lepidote. Peduncle 

 rather shorter than the leaves, stiffly erect ; bract-leaves many, 

 imbricated, erect, with a long point from a broad clasping base. 

 Spike dense, simple, oblong, 2 in. long; flower-bracts broad oblong- 

 navicular, pointed ; lower f in. long ; pedicel short, stout. Calyx 

 above | in. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petal-blade 

 oblanceolate, £ in. long. Stamens and style not protruded beyond 

 the calyx. 



Hab. Uraguay, Tweedie I 



123. T. Benthamiana (Klotzsch inedit?), n. sp. T. vestita 

 Benth. in PL Hartweg. 25, non Cham, et Schlecht. Anoplophytum 

 Benthamianum ? et vestitum Beer, Brom. 263, 266. — Acaulescent. 

 Leaves 30-40 in a dense rosette, lanceolate-acuminate, falcate, 

 6-8 in. long, J in. broad at the dilated base, £ in. above it, deeply 

 channelled down the face, thick and rigid in texture, persistently 

 clothed with adpressed lepidote scales on both surfaces. Peduncle 

 stout, erect, 8-6 in. long ; bract-leaves crowded, similar to those of 

 the rosette. Flowers in a dense oblong spike about 3 in. long, 

 1£ in. diam. ; flower-bracts very large, with a thin oblong boat- 

 shaped blade about 2 in. long, 1 in. broad, acute, and in the lower 

 with a long rigid cusp. Calyx much shorter than the bract. 

 Corolla violet, much longer than the calyx, its narrow petals 

 convolute in a tube, spreading at the very tip only. Stamens and 

 style conspicuously exserted beyond the petals. Capsule-valves 

 lanceolate, 1-1^ in. long, £ in. broad. 



Hab. Central Mexico, on rocks and trees ( Xalapa, Guadeloupe, 

 and Balanos), Hartweg 223! Coulter 1579! Bourgeau 894! Andrieux 

 58 ! (a form with smaller bracts and narrower leaves). A very 

 distinct species, connecting the sections Anoplophytum and Pityro- 

 phyllum. 



124. T. geminiflora A. Brong. in Voy. Coquille, 186. T. rubida 



