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Inflorescence a moderately dense drooping bipinnate panicle 4 in. 

 long ; branches flexuose, laxly 5-7-flowered, lower 1^ in. long ; 

 branch-bracts small, deltoid, denticulate ; flower-bracts very small, 

 deltoid. Calyx with ovary ^ in. long ; ovary subglobose ; sepals 

 broad, rather longer than the ovary, emarginate or obscurely mucro- 

 nate. Petals mucronate, more than half as long again as the 

 sepals. 



Hab. Columbia ; on the banks of the Rio Magdelena, near Isla brava. 

 Andre 378. 



33. M. CuMiNGii Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 227. — Leaves 

 unknown. Peduncle slender ; upper bract-leaves large, lanceolate, 

 adpressed, toothed. Inflorescence a dense bipinnate panicle 6-8 in. 

 long, with about 10-12 subpatent spicate 10-12-flowered branches 

 1^-2 in. long, the lower overtopped by their red lanceolate branch- 

 bracts ; flower-bracts ovate-lanceolate, ^ in. long. Calyx including 

 ovary | in. long ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, I in. long, with an 

 erecto-patent brown mucro. Petals twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Ecuador, Cuming 1178, ex parte ! (Herb. Kew) ; Andre 1036. 



34. M. suBiNERMis Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 228. — Leaves 

 about 20 in a utricular rosette, lanceolate from a dilated oblong 

 base, 1|~2 ft. long, |-1 in. broad at the middle, thin in texture for 

 the genus, narrowed gradually to the point, with only a few minute 

 prickles towards the base. Peduncle about a foot long, with 

 several red ascending lanceolate bract-leaves about 2 in. long. 

 Inflorescence a dense oblong-thyrsoid bipinnate panicle about 3 in. 

 long; central branches longest, 1-lf in. long, 5-6-flowered; 

 flower-bracts orbicular, not cuspidate, ^-^ in. long and broad. 

 Ovary with calyx, ^ in. long ; sepals ovate, not mucronate, ^ in. 

 long. Petals not seen. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 9326 ! 



35. M. cjEsiA E. Morren, inedit. (M.D.). — Leaves about a 

 dozen in a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 12-15 in. 

 long, 1|- in. broad at the middle, plain green on the face, thinly 

 white-lepidote, not banded on the back, rounded to a cusp at the tip, 

 the marginal teeth middle-sized, deltoid-cuspidate, black, hooked. 

 Peduncle slender, a foot long ; bract-leaves lanceolate, adpressed, 

 pale. Inflorescence a dense deltoid bipinnate panicle 2 in. long ; 

 branches few, dense, erecto-patent, densely spicate, at most an inch 

 long, subtended by small ovate pink branch-bracts ; flower-bracts 

 ovate, acute, pink, serrated, ^ in. long. Ovary with calyx as long 

 as the flower-bract. Petals reddish lilac, exserted ^-^ in. 



Hab. Probably South Brazil. Described from a drawing of Prof. Morren's 

 made Dec, 1885. 



36. M. LEucocARPA Andre, Enum. 3. — Leaves lorate from a 

 dilated base, 12-16 in. long, above 2 in. broad, slightly lepidote 

 beneath ; marginal teeth large. Peduncle slender, purplish, fur- 

 fur aceous ; leaf-bracts lanceolate, deflexed. Inflorescence a dense 

 erect ovoid bipinnate panicle 5-6 in. long, 3 in. broad at the 

 middle ; branches 6-10-flowered ; lower branch-bracts lanceolate. 



