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moderately dense oblong-cylindrical bipinnate panicle a foot long, 

 3 in. diam ; branches spreading, l-lj in. long ; flower-bracts 

 small, ovate-cuspidate. Calyx with ovary ^ in. long ; sepals lan- 

 ceolate, minutely mucronate. Petal-blade small. 



Hab. Central Brazil ; prov. Tocantins, Weddell 1 (Herb. Paris). Near 

 ^. panicuUgera. 



23. M. PANicuLiGERA Griseb. Flor. Brit. West. Ind. 592. 

 Bromelia paniculigera Swartz. Prodr. 56. Hohenbergia panicaligera 

 Baker in Eef. Bot. sub t. 284, excl. syn. — Leaves 12-20 in a 

 utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. long, 2-3 in. 

 broad at the middle, horny in texture, bright green on both sides, 

 deltoid- cuspidate at the tip, the spreading deltoid teeth small or 

 middle-sized. Peduncle 1-1 J ft. long, ; upper bract-leaves large, 

 spreading, bright red. Inflorescence a dense or sub-lax cylindrical 

 panicle 1-1| ft. long, 2-3 in. diam. ; branches few-flowered, 

 spicate, very flexuose, the lower geminate ; flower-bracts small, 

 ovate, cuspidate. Calyx with ovary f-f in. long; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, with a large brown cusp. Petals red-purple, 

 twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Jamaica, Wright ! Purdie ! Venezuela, Fendler 2454 ! Moritz 299 ! 

 Para, Spruce ! Described from a plant flowered at Kew, Dec, 1887. The 

 Amazon valley plant has a much laxer panicle than the West Indian and 

 broader-toothed upper bract-leaves, and may be a distinct species. 



24. M. spicATA Mart.; Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1275. ^. 

 angustifolia Popp. & Endlich. Nov. Gen. t. 159. Hoplophytum 

 spicatum and ajigustifoUum Beer, Brom. 132, 134. Hohenbergia 

 angustifolia and Martii Baker in Eef. Bot. sub t. 284. Bromelia 

 thyrsoidea Willd. ; Schult. fil. Syst. vii. 1282. — Leaves about 20 in a 

 utricular rosette, lanceolate from a very large ovate base, 1-1 i ft. 

 long, 1-2 in. broad at the base of the blade, narrowed gradually to 

 the apex, the marginal teeth horny and spreading, the lowest 

 sometimes ^ in. long. Peduncle about a foot long, with several 

 large spreading bright red lanceolate bract-leaves aggregated near 

 its apex. Inflorescence a dense cylindrical panicle 2-6 in. long; 

 branches dense-flowered, short, spicate, secund ; flower-bracts 

 coriaceous, orbicular, with a large brown mucro, ^ in. long. Calyx 

 with ovary ^-^ in. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with a large brown 

 mucro. Petals yellow, twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Trinidad, Fendler 842 ! 843 ! French Guiana, Perottet ! Poiteau 1 

 Sagot 569 ! British Guiana, Appun 249 1 Im Thurn 1 Jenman 853 1 3814 1 

 Surinam, Coulon ! Maynas, Poppig ! Amazon valley, Burchell ! Spruce I 

 Pernambuco, Ridley d Ramage ! There is a specimen from Gronovius at the 

 British Museum, gathered in Surinam in 1736. 



25. M. SETiGERA Mart.; Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1274.— 

 Leaves with a dilated base 4-5 in. long and a lorate cuspidate 

 lamina 2-3 ft. long, IJ-IJ in. broad, the marginal teeth large, 

 those near the base of the leaf J in. long. Peduncle much shorter 

 than the leaves ; upper bract-leaves 6-8 in. long, purple-tinted and 

 spine-margined. Panicle cylindrical, with a tomentose rachis and 

 spreading 2-3-fid 2-3-flowered branches not more than an inch 



