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172. T. viRiDiFLORA Baker. Piatystachys viridiflora Beer, Brom. 

 y-' — Leaves a dozen or more in a dense utricular rosette, lorate 

 from an ovate base 4 in. long, 2£-3 in. broad, thin, flexible, sub- 

 glabrous, above a foot long, an inch broad at the middle, deltoid* 

 cuspidate at the tip. Peduncle stiffly erect, l£-2 ft. long ; bract- 

 leaves imbricated, scariose, the lower with small lanceolate coriaceous 

 free points. Inflorescence a dense flat simple spike 8-12 in. long, 

 * 1D# broad, with sometimes a small second one; flower-bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2-2 J in. long, an inch broad low down, 

 pale green, glabrous. Calyx half an inch shorter than the bract, 

 1£ m. long. Petals green, fugitive. Stamens longer than the petals. 

 Hab. Mexico ; Province of Cordova, Bourgeau 2274! Described 

 by Beer in 1857 from plants sent alive by Carl Heller to Count 

 Attems at Gratz, which flowered in November, 1854. Allied to T. 



gladioli flora. 



173. T. longibracteata, n. sp. — Leaf thin, flexible, lorate, 

 subglabrous, 1^-2 ft. long, 1£ in. broad, and narrowed to the point 

 m the Venezuelan plant, 2 in. broad and rounded to a cup in the 

 Irmidad plant. Peduncle stiffly erect ; bract-leaves small, scariose, 

 adpressed, imbricated. Inflorescence a broad flat dense simple spike 

 a foot long, 3 in. broad ; flower-bracts oblong-lanceolate, 2-2£ in. 

 lon g. l-l in. round low down, very ascending. Calyx J in. long; 

 sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals not seen. Capsule -valves lanceolate, 

 l\m. long. 



Hab. Venezuela; Mountains of Tovar, Fendler 2449! Trinidad, 

 * endler 830 I 831 ! 



174. T. psittacina Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 2841 ; Roem, et 

 oenultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1225. Vriesea psittacina Lindl. in Bot. 

 £eg. xxix. t. 10; Walp. Ann. iii. 622; Wawra in Oesterr. Bot. 

 *eit. xxx. 182 ; French trans. 62 ; Itin. Prin. Cob. 154 ; E. Morren 



Vill 



Antoine. Brom. 8, t. 6. T. 



- -*. * iUU1 . u, u . xu „ , V. simplex Beer, Brom. 97. — 



Reaves 12-20 in a rosette, lanceolate from a dilated base, 2 in. 

 broad, a foot or more long, 1-1| in. broad at the middle, nan-owed 

 gradually to the point, plain green, flexible, subglabrous. Peduncle 

 snorter than the leaves; bract-leaves small, scariose, adpressed. 

 inflorescence a simple lax erect spike 6-9 in. long ; flowers 6-10, 



erecto-patent ; rachis red, flexuose; flower-bracts oblong, i in 



*ound, 1$ in. long, bright red or red and yellow. Calyx rather 



jouger than the bract, yellowish; sepals obtuse. Petal-limb ob- 



fauceolate, A in. long, yellow. Stamens a little longer than the 

 Petals. & J 



q Hab. Forest round Rio Janeiro, 1 lurched 2540 ! Mien 8766 ! 

 3H74 ! Wawra 216. Figured by Hooker from a plant grown by 

 J- r - Shepherd at the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1827. Var. 

 decolor Wawra, Itin. Prin. Cob. 156, t. 33a; Antoine, Brom. t. 6, 

 fias green flower-bracts and a green calyx. Morren, I.e., mutes 

 "*-th this Morreniana, carinata, and brachystachys as varieties. 

 ^ !75. T. laxa Griseb. in Gott. Nachtrag. 1864, 18, non Fl. Brit. 

 v >est. Ind. 596. — Leaves lorate, with a dilated base. Peduncle 

 -°nger than the leaves ; bract-leaves small, adpress I. Spike lax, 



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