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sessile flowers; flower-bracts minute, ovate. Ovary cylindrical, 

 very pubescent, about an inch long ; sepals nearly as long, with a 

 densely matted tip. Petals reddish, densely matted at the tip with 

 white tomentum, about 1^ in. longer than the calyx. Berry ovoid, 

 yellowish brown, 1 in. diam. 



Hab. Widely spread in Tropical America, especially in the West Indies. 

 B. ignea Beer, />. Buwti and B. paragiiayensis Hort. (M.D.), are varieties with 

 bright red inner leaves. A drawing of Miss North's (No. 31), and a woodcut 

 in ' The Garden,' April 15, 1882, show the general habit excellently. 



2. B. SYLVESTRis Willd. ; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2392. A</alIo- 

 stack ys syln'stris Beer. — Acaulescent. Leaves ensiform, rigid, 

 S-4 ft. long, 1^ in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the 

 point, bright green on the face, thinly albo-lepidote on the back, 

 armed with strong hooked prickles. Peduncle a foot or more long, 

 its leaves reflexing, the upper bright red. Inflorescence a narrow 

 panicle with short spaced-out corymbose branches, all subtended by 

 bright red bracts, the lower with rigid spine-edged tips. Ovary 

 pubescent, cylindrical-trigonous, about an inch long ; sepals nearly 

 as long as the ovary. Petals reddish, not matted at the tip, 

 protruding ^ in. from the calyx. 



Hab. Tropical America. Figured by Dr. Sims from a plant flowered by 

 Anderson in the Chelsea garden in 1822 received from Berlin. 



3. B. LAciNiosA Mart. ; Schult. fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1278; (M.D.). 

 Ayallostachys Jaciniosus K. Koch. Karatas f/nianeiisis Hort. — Acaul- 

 escent. Leaves rigid, ensiform, suberect in the lower half, reaching 

 a length of 4-5 ft., 1^ in. broad low down, tapering gradually to 

 the point, bright green on the face, thinly lepidote on the back, 

 armed with large pungent deltoid-cuspidate hooked prickles. 

 Peduncle reaching a foot in length ; its leaves ensiform, bright 

 red. Panicle very dense, 2-3 in. diam. ; branch-bracts pale, 

 scariose, the lower with rigid red cusps ; axis and branches densely 

 canescent, the lower not more than 1|— 2 in. long. Ovary cylin- 

 drical-trigonous, densely pubescent, ^ in. long ; sepals nearly as 

 long as the ovary. Petals dull lilac, faintly tipped with tomentum, 

 ^ in. longer than the sepals. 



Hab. Caatingas of North Brazil, Martins. Flowered in cultivation at 

 Li6ge in 1873. Intermediate between B. Pinguin and B. fastiwsa. The same 

 species, or a very close ally is in K. Koch's herbarium named B. lanigera. 



4. B. Serra Griseb. Symb. Fl. Argent. 329.— Habit of B. 

 Pinguin, Leaves linear, a foot long, ^ in. broad at the middle, 

 glabrous on the face, albido-lepidote on the back, armed with 

 small deltoid prickles. Panicle compact ; branch-bracts rose-red ; 

 flower-bracts ovate-oblong, longer than the ovary. Ovary ^ in. 

 long ; sepals oblong, subobtuse, ^ in. long. Petals red-violet or 

 white, i in. longer than the sepals. 



Hab. Argentine territory ; province of Oran, Lorentz. Vernacular name 

 '* Chaguar." 



6. B. FASTUosA Lindl. Collect, t. 1 (1821) ; Kegel, Gartenfl. t. 

 493 (M.D.). B. antiacantha Bertol. Misc. iv. 6, t. 1 ; Antoine, 

 Brom. t. 20 (M.D.). B, Sceptrum Fenzl. ; Hart. Parad. t. 8. B, 

 Commeliniana De Vriese, Descr. t. 4. Afjallostachijs faatiiosa, anti- 



