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6. M. RAMosAMart. ; Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1272. Pironncava 

 ramosa Wawra, Itin. Prin. Cob. 148. — Leaves few, lorate, spreading, 

 2-3 ft. long, above 2 in. broad, rigid, minutely toothed. Peduncle 

 a foot long. Inflorescence a tripinnate panicle lf-2 ft. long, with 

 a few long main branches subtended by large red lanceolate bracts ; 

 branchlets crowded, flexuose, very short, 2-4-flowered ; flower- 

 bracts ovate, cuspidate, -J— ^ in. long. Ovary globose, J in. 

 long ; sepals ovate, yellow, mucronate, just longer than the ovary. 

 Petals yellow, more than twice as long as the sepals. Berry the 

 size of a pea, at first yellow, finally black. 



Hab. Brazil ; Mariana, Martins ; woods near Petropolis, Wawra, ii. 131. 



7. M. cYMoso-PANicuLATA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 165. 

 JE. i)aniculigera Griseb. in Gott. Nacht. 1864, 13, ex parte. — Leaves 

 with a dilated oblong base half a foot long, 4-5 in. broad, and a 

 lorate lamina 2 ft. long, 2J-3 in. broad, with a deltoid-cuspidate 

 tip and small close horny deltoid brown teeth. Peduncle sheathed 

 by large lanceolate adpressed imbricated bract-leaves. Inflores- 

 cence an ample deltoid tripinnate panicle, the lower branches 

 nearly a foot long, spreading, peduncled, subtended by large 

 lanceolate branch-bracts ; secondary branches 2-3 in. broad ; 

 tertiary laxly cymose, each flower with a stiff ascending pedicel 

 J-f in. long, with a minute ovate-cuspidate bract at its base and 

 another similar one subtending the ovary. Ovary including the 

 calyx f in. long ; sepals small, deltoid, with a minute erecto-patent 

 cusp. Petals violet, shortly protruded. 



Hab. Venezuela, Moritz 1231 ! Fendler 2453 ! The true paniculigera has 

 a bipinnate panicle and the flowers are sessile. This is in the Berlin Herbarium 

 as Bromelia latifolia Willd., and jEchmea latifolia Klotzsch. 



8. M. ScHiEDEANA Sclilecht. in Linnsea, xviii. 437. ^. macra- 

 cantha Brong. inedit. ; Le Bele in 111. Hort. 1880, 69 (M.D.).— 

 Leaves about 20 in a rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. 

 long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, rigid in texture, plain green on 

 the channelled face, thinly white-lepidote, not banded on the back, 

 deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the marginal teeth deltoid-cuspidate, 

 large and spreading. Peduncle 2 ft. long ; upper bract-leaves 

 large, erect, bright red. Inflorescence a tripinnate panicle 1-|- ft. 

 long ; rachises pubescent ; lower branches remote, patent, 4-5 in. 

 long, subtended by large red lanceolate branch-bracts ; branchlets 

 spicate ; flower-bracts ovate acuminate, J-^ in. long. Calyx with 

 ovary nearly as long as the flower-bract ; sepals ovate, acute ; 

 ovary globose, yellow. Petals pale yellow, shortly protruded. 

 Berry green, finally black, the size of a pea. 



Hab. Mountains of Central Mexico, Schiede & Deppe, Liehmann 26 — 30, 

 Kanvinski. Described mainly from Morren's drawing made from a plant flowered 

 by Dr. Le Bele at Mans in 1880, and a specimen at Paris dried by Brogniart in 

 1870. 



9. M. sERviTENsis Andre, Enum. 3. — Leaves linear from an 

 ovate base, 2J-3 ft. long, an inch broad at the middle, lepidote on 

 both surfaces ; marginal teeth small. Inflorescence a tripinnate 

 panicle 1^ ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, lax in the lower, denser in the 

 upper half ; upper branches simple, lower bearing 3-5 laxly 5-6- 



