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ovate-lanceolate bracts. Mexico, Gheisbreght. Is very likely one 

 of the large Mexican species of Platystachys (Sp. 75-78). 



Subgenus X, Cyathophora K. Koch. — Leaves densely rosulate, 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescence more or less decidedly 

 multifarious. Petal-blade Ungulate ; claw not scaled. Stamens 

 and style long. Differs from Allardtia and Platystachys by its 

 non-distichous inflorescence. 



Sp. 221-226. 



Inflorescence a dense capitulum with 



single flowers in the axils of large 

 bracts 



Habit small ; panicle dense . , Sp. 227-233. 

 Large, with a lax panicle . . Sp. 234. 



221. T. capitata Griesb. Cat. Cub. 255. — Leaves about a dozen 

 m a dense rosette, lanceolate, acuminate from a dilated ovate base 

 an inch I road, 5-6 in. long, ( in. broad at the middle, recurved, sub- 

 coriaceous, narrowed gradually from the base to a long point, thinly 

 persistently lepidote on both surfaees. Peduncle 4 in. long ; bract- 

 leaves crowded, with long lanceolate recurved points. Flowers in 

 a dense oblong head, 1£ in. long; bracts large, ascending, ovate- 

 acuminate, firm in texture, lepidote, the lower 2-3 in. long. Calyx 

 i in. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals not seen. Capsule 

 above an inch long. 



Hab. Cuba, Wright 3274! 



222. T. sphaerocephala, Baker n. sp. — Boot-leaves few, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate from an ovate dilated base 1| in. long: blade | ft. 

 long, | in broad at the middle, iirm in texture* - , thinly lepidote on 

 both surfaces, with convolute edges. Peduncle 3 in. long, quite 

 hidden by the large lanceolate acuminate bract-leaves. Inflores- 

 cence a dense oblong multifarious capitulum, with single flowers 

 J n the axils of large ovate bracts of firm texture with a long 

 convolute cusp, the lower 2-3 in. long. Calyx flattened, an inch 

 long, enclosed in a pair of boat haped bracteoles nearly as long as 

 ^self; sepals acute. Petals not seen. Capsule- valves lanceolate, 

 an inch long. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia near Sorata, alt. 9000-10,000 ft. 

 Mmuion 1188 ! Near 1\ capitata Griseb. 



223. T. oxysepala, n.sp.— L tves about a dozen in a rosette, 

 lanceolate-acuminate from a dilated ovate base an inch broad, 

 8 ~? in. long, £ j n# broad at the middle, tapering gradually to a Ion 

 point, firm in "texture, persistently finely lepidote on both surfaces. 

 Peduncle stiffly erect, as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves imbri< ted, 

 with ovate bases and squarrose linear-subulate points. Inflorescence 

 a few-flo W ered capitulum, each flower in the axil of a lepidote 

 ovate-acuminate bract ol firm i xtare, 2-U in- long. Calyx |-i m. 

 J ^ u g; sepals lanceolate, acute; pedicel erecto-pa -nt, j m. long. 



■tetals not seen. 



Hab. Andes of Peru; Qoebrada of Gnerreras, Briiffff$l De- 



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