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flowered branchlets ; branch-bracts rose-red, lower large, ovate - 

 lanceolate ; flower-bracts rose-red, obscurely mucronate, l-5th in. 

 long. Ovary with calyx ^ in. long ; sepals obtuse, longer than the 

 ovary. Petals reddish white. 



Hab. Eastern slope of the Bogotan Andes at Servita, alt. 1500 — 2000 ft. 

 Andre 1197. 



10. M. ODORA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 226. Billbergia 

 odora Miquel in Linnsea, xviii. 377. Hohenhergia odora Baker in 

 Eef. Bot. sub t. 284. — Leaves 10-12 in a utricular rosette, lorate 

 from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, plain 

 green and slightly lepidote on the face, more lepidote on the back, 

 moderately firm in texture, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the mar- 

 ginal teeth minute. Peduncle 1^ ft. long; bract-leaves erect, 

 adpressed. Inflorescence a lax, bipinnate panicle l-l^- ft. long, 

 with a few arcuate spicate shortly peduncled branches 6-9 in. long, 

 subtended by large branch-bracts ; flowers sessile, spreading ; 

 flower-bracts rigid, lanceolate-acuminate, ^ in. long. Ovary with 

 calyx ^ in. long ; sepals ovate, shorter than the ovary, with a large 

 erecto-patent cusp. Petals pale yellow, J in. longer than the sepals. 



Hab. West Indies (seen from Trinidad, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, 

 and Tobago) ; Surinam, Herb. Vaillant ! Focke 809 ! Cayenne, Poiteaii ! Perottet ! 

 Pernambuco, Ridley (& Ramage ! Cultivated long ago by Sir Wm. Hooker at 

 Glasgow, and again lately at Kew, but it is not a showy, though a very distinct, 

 species. 



11. iE. PoEPPiGii Baker. — Leaves lanceolate, IJ ft. long, with 

 small black marginal prickles. Inflorescence a bipinnate panicle 

 with short lax spicate branches ; flower-bracts oblong, J in. long. 

 Calyx with ovary as long as tlie bract ; sepals as long as the ovary. 



Hab. Amazon valley at Ega, Poeppig ! Near ^. odora. 



12. M. LAxiFLORA Benth. Bot. Sulph. 173. Hohenhergia laxiflora 

 Baker in Ref. Bot. sub t. 284. Aloe americana arhoribus innascens, 

 &c., Rel. Houst. edit. Banks, t. 16. Bromelia hracteata Schultes 

 fil. Syst. Veg. vh. 1280, ex parte. — Leaves ensiform, above 2 ft. 

 long, lJ-2 in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, 

 glabrous on the face, thinly lepidote on the back, narrowed 

 gradually to the point, the marginal teeth large and hooked. 

 Peduncle above a foot long. Inflorescence a dense panicle 1-1 J ft. 

 long, 5-6 in. broad, with very numerous drooping laxly spicate 

 branches subtended by red lanceolate bracts, the upper all simple, 

 the lowest sometimes forked ; flower-bracts ovate, cuspidate, ^ in. 

 long. Ovary with calyx above |- in. long ; sepals ovate, minutely 

 cuspidate. Petals pale, ^ in. longer than the sepals. 



Hab. Vera Cruz, Houston ! Mosquito shore, Gapt. Miller 1 Yucatan, 

 Schott 891 ! Acapulco, Sinclair ! Houston's specimen was gathered in 1731, 

 Capt. Miller's in 1774. Both are at the British Museum. 



13. M. BRACHYCLADA Baker. — Leaves rigid, ensiform, above a 

 foot long, IJ in. broad above the dilated base ; marginal teeth 

 middle-sized, crowded. Peduncle as long as the leaf. Inflor- 

 escence a dense cylindrical bipinnate panicle 8-9 in. long, with 



